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… is defined as ‘’an unexpected event in which the person comes to rest on the ground, floor, or lower level’’.6 Annually, approximately one in three adults aged 65 years and older, and 50% of adults above the age of 80 years, experience a fall.7 In 2020, every five minutes an older adult in the Netherlands visited the emergency department due to a fall.8 Falls can have many adverse consequences, both on the individual as well as societal level, and are associated with functional decline, loss of autonomy, and reduced quality of life.9 In 2020, falls in the Netherlands caused severe injuries in 76,800 older adults (2300 per 100,000 residents), led to 36,700 hospital admissions (1100 per 100,000 residents), 13,300 temporary or permanent admissions to a nursing home (390 per 100,000 … of Falls Network Europe consensus. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2005;53(9):1618-22. 7. Tinetti ME, Speechley M, Ginter SF. Risk factors for falls among elderly persons living in the community. N Engl J Med. 1988;319(26):1701-7. 8. Stam C, Blatter B. Letsels 2020: Kerncijfers Letsel Informatie Systeem. Amsterdam: VeiligheidNL; 2021. 9. Haagsma JA, Graetz N, Bolliger I, Naghavi M, Higashi H, Mullany EC, et al. The global burden of injury: incidence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years and time trends …