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We hypothesised frailty would predict future falling during the short follow-up period of 24 weeks.
If near-falls are a good predictor of future falling, then the TUG could be a useful indicator for risk of future falls.
It is important for healthcare practitioners to recognise frailty as a risk factor of imminent future falling even in older people who appear to be ageing well.
In this study of 259 community-dwelling older people in the UK, the optimal cut-off point of TUG time to predict future falling was 12.6 seconds, with low sensitivity (30.5%) and high specificity (89.5%).
Maki and colleagues [ 5] have suggested that a quick, simple, and safe measure of postural sway provides a better prediction of future falling risk in older people compared with measures derived using more complicated and expensive moving platform protocols that induce balance responses.
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Logistic regression models examined future falls risk by TUG time.
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