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First received: June 24, 2024

Clinical Trial: Real-life Dual-Task Training

Study Status: COMPLETED

Recruit Status: COMPLETED

Condition: Fall

Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL


Official Title: Real-life Dual-Task Training for Older Adults at Risk to Fall

Brief Summary: Older adults have difficulty optimizing two tasks at once and typically experience greater interference than younger adults when dual-tasking, meaningful that there is greater decline in performance of at least one task when comparing single and dual-tasking. Difficulty dual-tasking may actually predict falls in community-dwelling older adults. Dual-task training has been shown to improve cognitive outcomes (attention, memory), motor outcomes (balance, gait), and dual-task performance in older adults; however,…

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