LAY SUMMARY
In this article, Dr. M. Montero-Odasso and Dr. M. Speechley, members of the CCNA’s Team 12 (Memory, Exercise, and Cognition) provide an overview of the role cognition plays in falls, highlight the role of brain motor control deficits in fall risk, and offer pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical approaches to fall prevention. The researchers emphasize the importance of fall prevention in older adults who are cognitively impaired, since they experience double the rate of falls of those with normal cognition. This work also sets the stage for the CCNA’s clinical cohort, COMPASS-ND.