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Lower Extremity Function Editorial| Volume 20, ISSUE 10, P1187-1189, October 2019

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Lower Extremity Impairment Parallels Cognitive Impairment as a Cause of Disability: A Call for Public Awareness

  • Philip D. Sloane
    Correspondence
    Address correspondence to Philip D. Sloane, MD, MPH, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Departments of Family Medicine and Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.
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    Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Departments of Family Medicine and Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
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  • Sheryl Zimmerman
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    Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Schools of Social Work and Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
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      Cognitive impairment, because of its long-term and devastating toll on individuals, families, and the health care system, has appropriately received much emphasis in practice, policy, advocacy, education, and research circles.
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      At the same time, lower extremity impairment as a cause of disability and health care resource use has been growing without fanfare, yet it too has devasting consequences. This editorial is a call for public awareness about this issue.
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