Community-dwelling older adults with mild cognitive impairments show subtle visual attention costs when descending stairs.

CONCLUSION: The present cohort of community-dwelling older adults with MCI were functional, but appeared to prioritize locomotor demands over the simultaneous cognitive task in a possible "posture first" strategy to descend stairs. The present findings should be considered for developing more ecologically based clinical assessments of mobility deficits following cognitive impairments, with the approach and transition phases during stair descent as key points of focus. PMID: 31989954 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Human Movement Science - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Hum Mov Sci Source Type: research