Falls and mobility

A 26-week randomized trial in Bengaluru tested a yoga-based lifestyle program across multiple healthy-ageing domains. It stood out because it combined functional outcomes with biomarker signals and explicit trial reporting standards.

Using LASI, this study linked visual impairment with falls and injuries across India. It makes vision screening feel like one of the clearest national-scale preventive targets in the report.

In residential homes for the aged, the study found a strong association between visual impairment and falls. The practical implication is straightforward: routine eye screening and correction may reduce institutional fall risk.

This pilot randomized trial tested a multimodal package against health-awareness control in older adults with subjective cognitive impairment. The results support early-stage, multidomain prevention before more severe decline sets in.

This pilot explored whether yoga could work as a fall-prevention strategy in Hyderabad. It is useful less for definitive effect size and more for showing the intervention is acceptable and plausible in the Indian setting.

A randomized trial in an old-age home found both exercise approaches improved balance and fear-of-falling measures, with Otago showing larger gains. It is one of the most directly actionable fall-prevention trials in the shortlist.

This early India RCT supports structured exercise programs for maintaining balance and function in older adults. It is older than some other studies, but still highly usable from a care-delivery standpoint.

A randomized trial in residential care homes suggests yoga may improve several cognitive domains in older adults. It adds to the report's view that low-cost movement-based interventions may help both physical and cognitive ageing.

This national analysis builds a frailty index and links frailty burden to age, sex, socioeconomic position, and healthcare use across India.

This community study argues that grip strength, gait speed, and simple frailty screening can be deployed as practical field tools for older adults in India.

Cross-sectional analytic evidence in Hyderabad residential care elders focused on vision screening and spectacle provision and tracked ure prevalence and risk factors. Highly actionable because a pair-of-glasses intervention is low-cost and directly relevant to fall and quality-of-life prevention.

This tool-development study creates a falls-efficacy measure tailored to Indian living environments and activities, supporting more context-fit risk assessment.

This rural South India study links frailty to falls and fear of falling, making a strong case for integrated screening rather than treating each problem separately.

Cross-sectional evidence in Hyderabad homes for aged focused on routine vision screening recommendation and tracked visual impairment prevalence and risk drivers. Directly relevant to institutional screening policy and highly practical for prevention planning.

This decomposition analysis shows how frailty and disability are unevenly distributed by sex and residence, helping planners target scarce prevention resources.

This community study highlights household environmental hazards as practical fall predictors, making home-safety checklists a concrete prevention tool.

This pilot study applies structured falls tools in a community setting and shows how brief operational screening can be embedded into routine geriatric visits.

Systematic review evidence in Older Indian adults focused on risk factor synthesis for fall prevention and tracked fall predictors. High evidence tier for building targeted fall-prevention bundles rather than relying on one-off interventions.

Randomized supplementation trial evidence in Vitamin D-deficient Asian Indians including older adults focused on cholecalciferol plus calcium and tracked strength and physical performance. Relevant to sarcopenia and falls prevention, even though it sits outside the stronger recent lifestyle and screening clusters.

Cross-sectional evidence in Semi-urban Kerala elders aged 60+ focused on integrated screening for cognition and fall risk and tracked fall-risk prevalence and associations. Supports a more integrated geriatric-screening model instead of siloed risk checks.

Cross-sectional risk assessment evidence in Urban Indian adults and older adults focused on fracture risk screening and tracked risk stratification. Supports proactive fracture prevention planning rather than reactive treatment after injury.