Eye care practitioners and falls prevention for older adults: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Eye care practitioners are well-placed in the community to provide falls prevention advice to older adults, but existing literature offers scant insight into whether this occurs in practice. This scoping review aimed to map and synthesize the evidence for community eye care practitioners' awareness and behaviors in falls prevention in older adults, as well as barriers and enablers to implementation of falls evidence.

Methods

This review process was guided by the Arksey and O'Malley framework for scoping reviews and PRISMA-ScR guidelines. MEDLINE, CINAHL Complete, Embase, Web of Science and OpenMD were searched for published and gray literature between January 1990 to October 2024. Data were mapped against the World Falls Guidelines framework of: (i) risk stratification,

SUBMITTER: Chen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11911153 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature