Gait speed is a strong predictor of health outcomes, mobility, and survival in older
adults.
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Assessments of usual gait speed are usually performed in clinical settings using
physical performance tests.
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Self-report has recently emerged as a practical method to assess usual gait speed
when physical performance tests are not feasible (eg, epidemiologic studies in large
populations).
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New technologies such as portable gait analysis systems can obtain a long and varied
amount of information about gait speed from 24-hour monitoring. To date, information
on the relationships between gait speed assessments with different methods is very
limited. Hence, we aimed to compare usual gait speed assessed by walk tests, a portable
gait analysis device, and self-report in older adults.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Published online: July 06, 2018
Footnotes
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
This work was supported by Grants from MINECO I+D+i (DEP2013-47786-R), UAM-Santander (CEAL-AL/2015-20), and Real Madrid-UEM (P2016/RM09). SHF and MAC were supported by FPI grants from Autonomous University of Madrid. The funding organizations had no role in the study design; the collection, analysis, or interpretation of the data; or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
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