Gait impairment and falls in cognitively impaired older adults: an explanatory model of sensorimotor and neuropsychological mediators
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Gait impairment and falls in cognitively impaired older adults: an explanatory model of sensorimotor and neuropsychological mediators.
OBJECTIVES to explore the associations between spatiotemporal gait parameters and falls in cognitively impaired older people and to investigate whether sensorimotor and neuropsychological factors mediate the association between gait performance and falls. DESIGN prospective cohort study with a 1 year follow-up. SETTING community-dwelling sample. PARTICIPANTS sixty-four participants (62-96...
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عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0002-0729,1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs057