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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