http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/08/45/8/pdf/menant.pdf
EDIT: As pointed out below by Ahcuah, this is a review article and has limitations, and the authors even state as such in the article.
Please see Ahcuah's comments in the posts below.
Ahcuah, would you please post links to the other studies that you've read? It's important for people to understand how bias can be introduced into research and review articles. Thank you for pointing this out. (I've also added a caveat to the first post.)The article is a review article (meaning, they did no original research, but just reviewed the other research). If you look at some of the other studies that show more falls for older adults, because falls are fairly rare, they grouped together those
barefoot with those wearing socks. Duh.
Ahcuah, would you please post links to the other studies that you've read? It's important for people to understand how bias can be introduced into research and review articles. Thank you for pointing this out. (I've also added a caveat to the first post.)