Risk and predictors of motor-performance decline in a normally functioning population-based sample of elderly subjects: The Italian longitudinal study on aging

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 318-324

  Inzitari, Marco ^a   Di Carlo, Antonio ^b   Baldereschi, Marzia ^b   Pracucci, Giovanni ^a   Maggi, Stefania ^b   Gandolfo, Carlo ^c   Bonaiuto, Salvatore ^d   Farchi, Gino ^e   Scafato, Emanuele ^e   Carbonin, Pierugo ^f   Inzitari, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d INRCA   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^f CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Mobility; Motor performance; Normal functioning; Walking

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DETERIORATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPATHY; PARKINSONISM; PATIENT MOBILITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; WALKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISABILITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WALKING;

EID: 33645085071     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.00584.x     Document Type: Article

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