Predictive Validity of Different Walking Measures to Identify the Incident Long-Term Care Needs in Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

A comfortable walking speed is a suitable measurement of functional status in older adults. In addition to assessing their comfortable walking speed, two complex walking tests were administered to a cohort of older people, assuming that these tests would be a more sensitive predictor of the incident long-term care needs than comfortable walking speed.

Design

A prospective observational study was conducted to collect data.

Setting and participants

Among the initial 5,563 community-dwelling independent older adults (aged ≥ 65 years), 935 were excluded and the data of 4,628 (mean age, 73.9 ± 5.5 years, 65-94 years; 2,052 men, 2,576 women) older adults were finally analyzed.

Methods

Three walking tasks were administered: comfortable, complicated balance,

SUBMITTER: Shimada H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12275544 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature