ArticleJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2021
Single-Task or Dual-Task? Gait Assessment as a Potential Diagnostic Tool for Alzheimer's Dementia.
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- Dual-task versus single-task walking within an Otago Exercise Program for older adults with dementia: A 24-week cluster randomized controlled trial.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2026Article
- Lightening the Load: The Relationship Between Gait and Cognition for Persons Living with Dementia Engaged in a Non-Pharmacological Intervention.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Extracted step parameters during the timed up and go test discriminate between groups with different levels of cognitive ability-a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Sensor-based motion analysis for dementia detection: a systematic review.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Review
- Alzheimer's Disease: Understanding Motor Impairments.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Cognitive Load and Dual-Task Performance in Individuals with and without Forward Head Posture.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- The Impact of Dual-Tasks and Disease Severity on Posture, Gait, and Functional Mobility among People Living with Dementia in Residential Care Facilities: A Pilot Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Dual-task turn velocity - a novel digital biomarker for mild cognitive impairment and dementia.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Curve Walking Reveals More Gait Impairments in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment than Straight Walking: A Kinect Camera-Based Study.Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports · 2024Article
- Classification of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Using Manual Motor Measures.Neuro-degenerative diseases · 2024Article
- Effects of motor-cognitive interaction based on dual-task gait analysis recognition in middle age to aging people with normal cognition and mild cognitive impairment.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Prediction of Disorientation by Accelerometric and Gait Features in Young and Older Adults Navigating in a Virtually Enriched Environment.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundA person's gait performance requires the integration of sensorimotor and cognitive systems. Therefore, a person's gait may be influenced by concurrent cognitive load such as simultaneous talking. Although it has been known that gait performance of people with Alzheimer's dementia (AD) is compromised when they attempt a dual-task walking task, it is unclear if using a dual-task gait performance during an AD assessment yields higher diagnostic accuracy.
objectiveThis study was designed to compare the predictive power for AD of dual-task gait performance in an AD assessment to that of single-task gait performance.
methodsParticipants (14 with AD and 15 healthy controls) walked across the GAITRite© Portable Walkway mat under three different cognitive load conditions: no simultaneous cognitive load, walking while counting numbers by ones, and walking while completing category naming.
resultsMultiple logistic regression revealed that the gait performance under a dual-task condition (i.e., concurrent counting or category naming) increased the proportion of variance explained by the FAP, SL, and DST, of the incidence of AD.
conclusionDual-task walking and talking may be a more effective diagnostic feature than single-task walking in a comprehensive AD diagnostic assessment.
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