Mental health and environmental factors associated with falls in the elderly in North India: A naturalistic community study.

•The prevalence of falls in elderly is 28.7%.•Falls in elderly are associated with slippery floors in the houses, hearing loss, vertigo, hypertension, use of multiple medications, depression and functional disability in univariate analysis.•On multivariate regression analysis, slippery floors (OR = 2.28), use of multiple medications (OR = 1.71), hearing loss(OR = 1.83) and presence of depression (OR = 1.62) were found to be independent risk factors with falls.