Dual-task costs while walking increase in old age for some, but not for other tasks: an experimental study of healthy young and elderly persons
Open Access
- 13 November 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
- Vol. 5 (1), 27
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-0003-5-27
Abstract
It has been suggested in the past that the ability to walk while concurrently engaging in a second task deteriorates in old age, and that this deficit is related to the high incidence of falls in the elderly. However, previous studies provided inconsistent findings about the existence of such an age-related dual-task deficit (ARD). In an effort to explain this inconsistency, we explored whether ARD while walking emerges for some, but not for other types of task.Keywords
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