A new study has revealed that a slowed gait may actually be tied to dementia in older adults. Here's how your gait relates to cognition.
What exactly does a slowed gait entail? Gait decline is classified by walking at a speed of 0.05 meter per second slower each year, and cognitive decline was determined by a series of cognition and processing speed tests to check for processing speed, cognitive function, delayed free call, and verbal fluency.
, delayed free call, processing speed and verbal fluency were all studied as well throughout a series of tests. While the study pool started large, by the end of the seven years, 1,600 people had withdrawn from the in-person study, and 2,259 were excluded from the final data due to failure to complete the study in one way or another. However, out of those that were not included, 178 were later diagnosed with dementia.
It may be apparent that cognitive decline is connected with dementia, but the study accounted for this by explaining,"It is to be expected that longitudinal decline in cognitive performance is strongly associated with dementia, as the former is a diagnostic criterion for the latter.
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