Intervention to Prevent Falls in Elderly Adults Living in a Residential Home

Conflict of Interest: The editor in chief has reviewed the conflict of interest checklist provided by the authors and has determined that the authors have no financial or any other kind of personal conflicts with this paper. We have had consultancies with the company that produced the machine used in this research. Author Contributions: Calder: development of concept and design, study management, acquisition of data. Mannion: study management, PT intervention, acquisition of data. Metcalf: development of concept and design, provision of randomization list, statistical analyses. All authors contributed to interpretation of the data and drafting the manuscript and gave final approval of the version to be published. Sponsor’s Role: None.

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