Association between Physical Activity and Physical Performance to Fall in Community-dwelling Elderly with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Dwi Rosella Komalasari, Chutima Jalayondeja, Wattana Jalayondeja
Purpose:

To determine the contribution of physical activity and physical performance in reducing the risk of falls in community-dwelling elderly with T2DM

Methods:

The participants comprised 94 fallers and 250 non-fallers who identified a number of falling for a past year. Physical activity and physical performance included muscle strength of lower limb, balance performance, endurance, and fall-efficacy were identified as the association to falls and adjusted by age. 

Results:

The low lower limb muscle strength, dynamic balance, ability to stand on foam with open and closed eyes, and fall-efficacy with high concern about falls category associated with falls strongly after adjusted by age (p0.05). The low lower limb muscle strength and dynamic balance increased fall five-fold, while fall-efficacy with high concern about falls category increased fall for four-fold after adjusted by age in community-dwelling elderly with T2DM.  

Conclusion(s):

Improving low physical performance can reduce falls and enhance the ability to carry out functional activities in community-dwelling elderly with T2DM.

Implications:

The rehabilitation of physical performance needs to be addressed regularly to reduce falling in community-dwelling elderly with T2DM 

Funding acknowledgements:
This study was granted by Muhammadiyah Uiversity of Surakarta, Indonesia.
Keywords:
physical activity
physical performances
fall, elderly
Primary topic:
Health promotion and wellbeing/healthy ageing/physical activity
Second topic:
Community based rehabilitation
Third topic:
Disability and rehabilitation
Did this work require ethics approval?:
Yes
Name the institution and ethics committee that approved your work:
Approved by the ethics committee from Faculty of Medical Science, Faculty of Medical Science, Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta
Provide the ethics approval number:
4258/B.2/KEPK-FKUMS/VIII/2023
Has any of this material been/due to be published or presented at another national or international conference prior to the World Physiotherapy Congress 2025?:
No

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