About the Authors

Daniel Schoene

Affiliations Falls and Balance Research Group, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Stephen R. Lord

Affiliations Falls and Balance Research Group, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Kim Delbaere

Affiliations Falls and Balance Research Group, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Connie Severino

Affiliation Falls and Balance Research Group, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Thomas A. Davies

Affiliation Falls and Balance Research Group, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Stuart T. Smith

s.smith@neura.edu.au

Affiliation Falls and Balance Research Group, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

SRL declares that the FallScreen fall risk assessment tool is commercially available through Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA); any profits from sales of the assessments are shared between the inventor (SRL), the falls and balance research group at NeuRA, and the NeuRA central fund. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS STS SRL KD. Performed the experiments: DS CS TD. Analyzed the data: DS KD SRL STS. Wrote the paper: DS STS KD SRL.