P 150 – Assessment of functional tasks related to the risk of falling in people with Alzheimer

Due to the instability and gait impairment in Alzheimer ’s patients [1], some approaches to the risk of falling assessment have been conducted. There are several reliable and valid scales to assess it as the Falls Risk assessment score [3], but the cognitive impairment, that affects their remembrance ability, hampers the possibility of using this kind of approach. Instead, the assessment requires objective tools that analyses different daily living activities related to the mobility as Berg scale [4,5] or Timed Up and go [6,7].

Source: Gait and Posture - July 26, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: J. L ópez-Pascual, J. Hurtado Abellán, G. Espí-López, P. Serra-Añó Tags: Short communication Source Type: research