Gait changes over time in hospitalized older adults with advanced dementia: Predictors of mobility change.

ABSTRACT: People with dementia are at risk of mobility decline. In this study, we measured changes in quantitative gait measures over a maximum 10-week period during the course of a psychogeriatric admission in older adults with dementia, with the aims to describe mobility changes over the duration of the admission, and to determine which factors were associated with this change. Fifty-four individuals admitted to a specialized dementia inpatient unit participated in this study. A vision-based markerless motion capture system was used to record participants' natural gait. Mixed effect models were developed with gait measures as the dependent variables and clinical and demographic variables as predictors. We found that gait stability, step time, and step length decreased, and step time variability an

SUBMITTER: Mehdizadeh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8598066 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature