Simultaneously Measuring Gait and Cognitive Performance in Cognitively Healthy and Cognitively Impaired Older Adults: The Basel Motor-Cognition Dual-Task Paradigm
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Simultaneously measuring gait and cognitive performance in cognitively healthy and cognitively impaired older adults: the Basel motor-cognition dual-task paradigm.
OBJECTIVES To investigate dual-task performance of gait and cognition in cognitively healthy and cognitively impaired older adults using a motor-cognition dual-task paradigm. DESIGN Cross-sectional retrospective study. SETTING The Basel Memory Clinic and the Basel Study on the Elderly (Project BASEL). PARTICIPANTS Seven hundred eleven older adults (mean age 77.2±6.2, 350 (49.2%) female an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0002-8614
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03429.x