Reference values of gait characteristics in community-dwelling older persons with different physical functional levels.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobility is one major component of healthy ageing of older persons. It includes gait speed, nowadays valued as the sixth vital sign of ageing. Quantitative gait analysis can support clinical diagnostics, monitor progression of diseases and provide information about the efficacy of interventions. Fast gait speed is an additional marker in the area of functional ability. Our aim was to contribute reference values of gait parameters of older persons based on their functional ability.

Methods

We visualised and combined three different established frameworks that assess gait characteristics into a new framework based approach that comprises eight gait parameters: gait speed, stride length, walk ratio, single and double support time, step width, step width CV (coefficie

SUBMITTER: Dapp U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9422159 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature