identification of elderly falling risk by balance tests under dual tasks conditions

objectives: this study aimed to identify elderly fallers and non-fallers by balance test under dual tasks conditions. methods & materials: this study was an analyze-comparative study. subjects were from three park of tehran. subjects were 20 older adults with outhistory of falls (aged 75.95±6.28 years) and 21 older adults with a history of 2 or more falls in the previous one year (aged 72.50±7.31 years) . all subjects performed timed up & go test under 3 conditions (timedup & go, timed up & go with numbers counter randomly [tug cognitive], and timed up & go while carrying a full cup of water [tug manual]). a multivariate analysis of variance and logistic regression analyses were performed. results: the results showed significant difference between elderly fallers and non fallers in fall risk composed dependent variable (p=0.0005), as the non fallers had greater score than the elderly fallers. also, results showed that tug cognitive has prediction capacity of elderly fall (p=0.013). conclusion: consequently, balance under cognitive dual task conditions could be useful method in identification of risk of falling and planning dual task exercise program and physiotherapy to preventfalls.