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JF Hopp, PhD, PT, is Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Section of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1919 W Taylor St, m/c 898, Chicago, IL 60612
A Svanborg, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chief of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 840 S Wood St, m/c 787, Chicago, IL 60612

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Recently, there has been growing recognition of falls and immobility as problems in community-living old persons. This has prompted the need for the development of methods for assessing and treating community-living old persons for falls and immobility. In their article, Koch and colleagues present such an assessment and intervention protocol and examine interrater reliability and the feasibility of both the assessment and intervention components of the protocol. The epidemiological comments in their introduction are selected to fit their goal: to emphasize the need for both assessment and intervention. Nothing is mentioned about the literature on which the assessments and the interventions are based. Thus, we consider their study preliminary based on several issues related to assessment and intervention protocol development and interrater reliability testing.

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