Using step activity monitoring to characterize ambulatory activity in community-dwelling older adults

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 120-124

  Cavanaugh, James T ^a,d   Coleman, Kim L ^b   Gaines, Jean M ^c   Laing, Linda ^b   Morey, Miriam C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Cyma Corporation   (United States)

^c Erickson Foundation   (United States)

^d DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Aging; StepWatch; Variability; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; UNITED STATES; WALKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; COMPUTERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PILOT PROJECTS; WALKING;

EID: 33845974443     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00997.x     Document Type: Article

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