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Gait and dementia

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Gait impairments and cognitive decline are common among older people and are the hallmarks of functional decline in advancing age. Until recently, it was thought that gait is an automated motor task with little or no reliance on cognitive function. The understanding of gait as a complex cognitive task and findings that poor gait precedes cognitive decline have led to an increasing number of studies in the field of “gait and dementia.” This chapter provides an overview of the evidence on how gait could be useful in evolving dementia science. It is divided into three main sections. The first describes gait as a marker of cognitive impairment and dementia, the second describes the ability of gait to predict future cognitive decline and dementia, and the last section describes the associations between gait and other major genetic and neuroimaging biomarkers of dementia.

History

Publication title

The Neuroscience of Dementia, Volume 1: Diagnosis and Management in Dementia

Edition

1st

Editors

C Martin and V Preedy

Pagination

95-109

ISBN

978-0-12-816043-5

Department/School

Menzies Institute for Medical Research, Medicine

Publisher

Academic Press

Publication status

  • Published

Place of publication

London, United Kingdom

Extent

53

Rights statement

Copyright 2020 Elsevier Inc

Socio-economic Objectives

200502 Health related to ageing, 200401 Behaviour and health