Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 175-179 , February 2010

Meaningful change in measures of gait variability in older adults

  • Jennifer S. Brach

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: 6035 Forbes Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States. Tel.: +1 412 383 6533; fax: +1 412 648 5970.
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  • Subashan Perera

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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  • Stephanie Studenski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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  • Mindy Katz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States
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  • Charles Hall

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States
    • Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States
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  • Joe Verghese

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States

Received 2 February 2009 ,Revised 29 September 2009 ,Accepted 3 October 2009.

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☆ Funding sources and related paper presentations: The Einstein Aging Study is supported by National Institutes on Aging program project grant (AG03949). J. Verghese is supported by a National Institutes on Aging grant (R01 AG025119). University of Pittsburgh Older American's Independence Center grant P30 AG024827-01. J.S. Brach is supported by a National Institutes on Aging and American Federation of Aging Research Paul Beeson Career Development Award (K23 AG026766).

PII: S0966-6362(09)00635-3

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.10.002

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