ArticleAging clinical and experimental research2017
Objective measurement of gait parameters in healthy and cognitively impaired elderly using the dual-task paradigm.
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- A Deep Learning Approach for Gait Event Detection from a Single Shank-Worn IMU: Validation in Healthy and Neurological Cohorts.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease using Dual-task Gait Assessments and Machine Learning.Biomedical signal processing and control · 2021Article
- Corrigendum: Evaluation of Wearable Technology in Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Assessing a Sensory-Motor-Cognition Triad in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment With Dichotic Listening While Walking: A Dual-Task Paradigm.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
- Dual-Task Gait Assessment and Machine Learning for Early-detection of Cognitive Decline.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe present study explores the differences in gait parameters in elderly subjects with or without cognitive impairment measured by means of ambulatory actigraphy while performing a single and a dual task.
methodsSixty-nine participants of which 23 individuals were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD), 24 individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 22 healthy controls performed a single and dual walking task while wearing a wrist-worn accelerometer. Objective measures of gait features such as walking speed, cadence (i.e., number of steps per minute), and step variance (i.e., variance in time between two consecutive steps) were derived and analyzed.
resultsWhile differences in several gait parameters, namely walking speed, were found between MCI and AD patients, no differences between healthy elderly and MCI patients were found.
conclusionWalking speed seems to be a gait-related feature that differs significantly between MCI and AD patients and thus could be used as an additional measurement in clinical assessment. However, differences in gait may not be salient enough in the early stages of dementia to be detected by actigraphy. More research comparing different methods to measure gait in early stages of dementia under different dual task conditions is neccessary.
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