Community-based group exercise improves balance and reduces falls in at-risk older people: a randomised controlled trial.

By A. Barnett, Ben J. Smith, Stephen R. Lord, Mandy Williams, Adrian Baumand. Age and Ageing, 2003

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Exercise to prevent falls in older adults: an updated meta-analysis and best practice recommendations. (2011, methodology): “The supplementation of group sessions with additional home-based exercise is a strategy used in several of the effective trials.(11)”
Force Platform Measurements as Predictors of Falls among Older People – A Review (2006, methodology): “] there was some evidence of posturography scores being more sensitive as predictors of falls than activity-based balance and gait scores. Several follow-up studies have been done among the elderly using a mechanical sway meter as a tool to measure body sway [ ,”
Effects of Different Exercise Interventions on Risk of Falls, Gait Ability, and Balance in Physically Frail Older Adults: A Systematic Review (2013, positive): “17,33,39 Four of the studies that showed a reduced incidence of falls used multi-component exercise programs in their intervention, 23,26,28,40 one study used only resistance exercises, 35 and two studies used Tai Chi exercises.”