TY - JOUR T1 - Physical activity, dog ownership and falls among older adults: a breed apart JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health DO - 10.1136/jech-2017-209841 SP - jech-2017-209841 AU - Theodore D Cosco AU - Benjamin L Storey Y1 - 2017/08/19 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2017/08/19/jech-2017-209841.abstract N2 - We read with great interest Wu et al’s article ‘Dog ownership supports the maintenance of physical activity during poor weather in older English adults: cross-sectional results from the EPIC Norfolk cohort’, highlighting the relationship between dog walkers and increased physical activity.1 Clearly, there are myriad positive implications of increased physical activity among older adults; however, as the authors rightly conclude, their findings ‘suggest that dog walking, where appropriate, can be a component of interventions to support physical activity in older adults’ … ER -