Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Soh, Shawn Leng-HsienWilliams, Andrew M2022-12-092022-12-092022-11-09Soh, S.L.-H. (2022) ‘Falls efficacy: The self-efficacy concept for falls prevention and management’, Frontiers in Psychology, 13, p. 1011285. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1011285.1664-1078https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/12661https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1011285Shawn Leng-Hsien Soh - ORCID: 0000-0002-8725-5182 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8725-5182Falls efficacy is an important self-efficacy concept in older people to prevent and manage falls. However, an adequate understanding of this concept has been lacking. Many falls efficacy instruments have been used to measure fear of falling or balance confidence. This has led to obscurity in the role of falls efficacy in falls prevention and management practice. This commentary aims to present a contemporary understanding of falls efficacy. Translating new insights of falls efficacy into practice promotes new and novel approaches to help older people overcome the threat of falls.enCopyright © 2022 Soh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Falls efficacySelf-efficacyOlder peopleFalls preventionFalls managementBalance confidenceFear of fallingBalance recovery confidenceArticle