ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
How Older Adults Cope with Cognitive Complexity and Environmental Constraints during Dual-Task Walking: The Role of Executive Function Involvement.
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- Design and test-retest reliability of a new test to assess motor competence in healthy older adults.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Concurrent Validity of Dual-Task Walking Speed With CERAD-NP Assessment Battery in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2023Article
- Cognitive dual-task cost depends on the complexity of the cognitive task, but not on age and disease.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- The Effects of Tau, Amyloid, and White Matter Lesions on Mobility, Dual Tasking, and Balance in Older People.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2021Article
- Enriched Rehabilitation Improves Gait Disorder and Cognitive Function in Parkinson's Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
This cross-sectional study investigated the interactive dual-task (DT) effects of executive function demands and environmental constraints on older adults' walking and the moderating role of habitual physical activity (PA). Locomotor performance under different environmental constraints (flat versus obstructed walking) and cognitive performance with different executive function involvement (backward counting versus random number generation) were assessed under single-task (ST) and DT conditions in 135 participants (mean age 68.1 ± 8.4). The weekly number of daily steps was measured. Reciprocal DT effects of walking on cognitive performance and of the cognitive task on gait performance were computed and submitted to analyses of covariance with age, PA level, and cognitive functioning as covariates, followed by linear regressions with PA level as predictor. Cognitive task demands and environmental constraints individually and jointly affected gait variability (
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