ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences2021
Mobility of Older Adults: Gait Quality Measures Are Associated With Life-Space Assessment Scores.
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backgroundThe relation of gait quality to real-life mobility among older adults is poorly understood. This study examined the association between gait quality, consisting of step variability, smoothness, regularity, symmetry, and gait speed, and the Life-Space Assessment (LSA).
methodIn community-dwelling older adults (N = 232, age 77.5 ± 6.6, 65% females), gait quality was derived from (i) an instrumented walkway: gait speed, variability, and walk ratio and (ii) accelerometer: signal variability, smoothness, regularity, symmetry, and time-frequency spatiotemporal variables during 6-minute walk. In addition to collecting LSA scores, cognitive functioning, walking confidence, and falls were recorded. Spearman correlations (speed as covariate) and random forest regression were used to assess associations between gait quality and LSA, and Gaussian mixture modeling (GMM) was used to cluster participants.
resultsSpearman correlations of ρ p = .11 (signal amplitude variability mediolateral [ML] axis), ρ p = .15 and ρ p = -.13 (symmetry anterior-posterior-vertical [AP-V] and ML-AP axes, respectively), ρ p = .16 (power V), and ρ = .26 (speed), all p <.05 and marginally related, ρ p = -.12 (regularity V), ρ p = .11 (smoothness AP), and ρ p = -.11 (step-time variability), all p <.1, were obtained. The cross-validated random forest model indicated good-fit LSA prediction error of 17.77; gait and cognition were greater contributors than age and gender. GMM indicated 2 clusters. Group 1 (n = 189) had better gait quality than group 2 (n = 43): greater smoothness AP (2.94 ± 0.75 vs 2.30 ± 0.71); greater similarity AP-V (.58 ± .13 vs .40 ± .19); lower regularity V (0.83 ± 0.08 vs 0.87 ± 0.10); greater power V (1.86 ± 0.18 vs 0.97 ± 1.84); greater speed (1.09 ± 0.16 vs 1.00 ± 0.16 m/s); lower step-time coefficient of variation (3.70 ± 1.09 vs 5.09 ± 2.37), and better LSA (76 ± 18 vs 67 ± 18), padjusted < .004.
conclusionsGait quality measures taken in the clinic are associated with real-life mobility in the community.
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