ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021
The Impact of Environment on Gait Assessment: Considerations from Real-World Gait Analysis in Dementia Subtypes.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
- Wearable Sensors in Gait Assessment for Parkinson Disease and Stroke in Real-World Environments: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Enhancing Enrollment and Adherence in Long-Term Wearable Research on Dementia: Qualitative Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis.JMIR aging · 2025Pooled it
- Early detection of diseases causing dementia using digital navigation and gait measures: A systematic review of evidence.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Pooled it
- Digital Biomarkers for the Assessment of Non-Cognitive Symptoms in Patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies: A Systematic Review.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2024Pooled it
- Gait Assessment Using Wearable Sensor-Based Devices in People Living with Dementia: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
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- Video-Based Gait Assessment Using Machine Learning to Classify Age and Sex in Low-Resource Settings: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Wearable Sensor Technologies and Gait Analysis for Early Detection of Dementia: Trends and Future Directions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- AI-Based Severity Classification of Dementia Using Gait Analysis.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Capture of Longitudinal Change in Real-Life Walking in Cerebellar Ataxia Increases Patient Relevance and Effect Size.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025Article
- Gait Spatio-Temporal Parameters Vary Significantly Between Indoor, Outdoor and Different Surfaces.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Sensor-Based Gait and Balance Assessment in Healthy Adults: Analysis of Short-Term Training and Sensor Placement Effects.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Quantitative Gait and Balance Outcomes for Ataxia Trials: Consensus Recommendations by the Ataxia Global Initiative Working Group on Digital-Motor Biomarkers.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Review
- Detecting Psychological Interventions Using Bilateral Electromyographic Wearable Sensors.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Age and beta amyloid deposition impact gait speed, stride length, and gait smoothness while transitioning from an even to an uneven walking surface in older adults.Human movement science · 2024Article
- Shifting From Active to Passive Monitoring of Alzheimer Disease: The State of the Research.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Review
- Association of Gait Quality With Daily-Life Mobility: An Actigraphy and Global Positioning System Based Analysis in Older Adults.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2024Article
- Artificial intelligence for dementia-Applied models and digital health.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2023Review
- Walking Bout Detection for People Living in Long Residential Care: A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for a 3-Axis Accelerometer on the Lower Back.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Dual-Task Interference Effects on Lower-Extremity Muscle Activities during Gait Initiation and Steady-State Gait among Healthy Young Individuals, Measured Using Wireless Electromyography Sensors.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Laboratory-based gait assessments are indicative of clinical outcomes (e.g., disease identification). Real-world gait may be more sensitive to clinical outcomes, as impairments may be exaggerated in complex environments. This study aims to investigate how different environments (e.g., lab, real world) impact gait. Different walking bout lengths in the real world will be considered proxy measures of context. Data collected in different dementia disease subtypes will be analysed as disease-specific gait impairments are reported between these groups. Thirty-two people with cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease (AD), 28 due to dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and 25 controls were recruited. Participants wore a tri-axial accelerometer for six 10 m walks in lab settings, and continuously for seven days in the real world. Fourteen gait characteristics across five domains were measured (i.e., pace, variability, rhythm, asymmetry, postural control). In the lab, the DLB group showed greater step length variability (
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