Recent evidence indicates that sensory and motor changes may precede the cognitive
symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) by several years and may signify increased risk of …

BACKGROUND: Walking speed has implications for community functioning and is predictive
of important outcomes. Determining whether an individual's walking speed is limited …

Importance Gait performance is affected by neurodegeneration in aging and has the
potential to be used as a clinical marker for progression from mild cognitive impairment …

The Memory and Aging Project is a longitudinal, epidemiologic clinical-pathologic cohort
study of common chronic conditions of aging with an emphasis on decline in cognitive and …

Introduction The use of a simple, safe, and easy to perform assessment tool, like gait speed,
to evaluate vulnerability to adverse outcomes in community-dwelling older people is …

Until recently, gait was generally viewed as a largely automated motor task, requiring
minimal higher‐level cognitive input. Increasing evidence, however, links alterations in …

Background Poor gait performance predicts risk of develo** dementia. No structured
critical evaluation has been conducted to study this association yet. The aim of this meta …

Background. The association between gait speed and cognition has been reported;
however, there is limited knowledge about the temporal associations between gait slowing …

Objectives To compare the trajectory of motor decline, as measured by gait speed and finger-
tap** speed, between elderly people who developed mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and …

Rationale, aims and objectives Walking speed is an important performance variable, but
information on the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for the measure has not …