About the Authors

Liam Townsend

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

townsenl@tcd.ie

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

David Moloney

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Falls and Syncope Unit, Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Ciaran Finucane

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Falls and Syncope Unit, Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Kevin McCarthy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Falls and Syncope Unit, Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Colm Bergin

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Ciaran Bannan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Rose-Anne Kenny

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Falls and Syncope Unit, Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.