Minimal Detectable Change in Dual-Task Cost for Older Adults With and Without Cognitive Impairment

Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Introduction: Mild cognitive impairment can be considered as an intermediate clinical state between normal cognitive aging and mild dementia. Elderly people with this impairment represent an at-risk group for the development of dementia. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults by Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and ...

Upper-Extremity Dual-Task Function: An Innovative Method to Assess Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults

BACKGROUND Difficulties in orchestrating simultaneous tasks (i.e., dual-tasking) have been associated with cognitive impairments in older adults. Gait tests have been commonly used as the motor task component for dual-task assessments; however, many older adults have mobility impairments or there is a lack of space in busy clinical settings. We assessed an upper-extremity function (UEF) test as...

Cognitive function and gait speed under normal and dual-task walking among older adults with mild cognitive impairment

BACKGROUND Gait ability and cognitive function are interrelated during both normal walking (NW) and dual-task walking (DTW), and gait ability is thus adversely affected by cognitive impairment in both situations. However, this association is insufficiently understood in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Here, we conducted a study with MCI participants, to examine whether the associat...

Cognitive impairment in older adults with cancer.

Cognition is a highly sophisticated, multifactorial, interrelated set of neurologic functions responsible for attention, perception, memory, learning, language, and thinking. One’s ability to perceive, recognize, register, store, and use information represents distinct entities of cognition.[1] Illness, medical therapies, and the aging process can negatively affect cognition. ADMINISTERING THE ...

Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults.