Presence of lower limb joint arthritis moderates the interrelationship between vision impairment and fear of falling avoidance behavior in older adults
Lin-Wei Hu, Merrill R. Landers, Lung-Chang Chien, Szu-Ping Lee, Fu-Lien Wu · 2026
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Lin-Wei Hu and four co-authors wrote this 2026 study on how joint arthritis changes the fear-of-falling story in older adults with poor eyesight. Two hundred clinic patients, mean age about sixty-five, were checked for untreated eye disease and lower limb arthritis, and tested for fear, avoidance, and mobility.
Eye disease alone was not the whole story. When arthritis joined it, patients moved worse on the timed rise-and-walk test and dodged more activity out of fear. Careful modeling showed arthritis shaped the indirect paths from eye disease to both outcomes, with fear as the bridge. The authors urge fall programs to treat eyes and joints as one combined risk.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lin-Wei Hu, Merrill R. Landers, Lung-Chang Chien, Szu-Ping Lee, Fu-Lien Wu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |