Overview
UDDGait™ is a multidisciplinary research project with the overreaching goal of providing an aid for early identification of cognitive impairment and risk of dementia development, thereby providing a basis for adequate symptom relieving and health promoting interventions.
A new concept is investigated for this purpose: a "dual-task-test", which implies the combination of a well-established mobility test (Timed Up-and-Go, TUG) with a simultaneous verbal task (i.e. TUG dual-task, TUGdt). This type of test has been judged as a potential aid for early identification of dementia disease. More research is needed to further examine the test's validity, reliability and predictive capacity.
The overall aim is to investigate if TUGdt is useful as an aid for prediction of dementia disease. To ensure the results, the aim is also to evaluate the test's measurement properties and to generate normative reference values of healthy control persons.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients undergoing memory assessment at at Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden
- Patients undergoing memory assessment at at Falu Hospital, Sweden
- Cognitively unimpaired individuals with a Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) score of > 26
Exclusion Criteria:
- Inability to walk three meters back and forth
- Inability to rise from a sitting position
- Indoor use of a walking aid
- Current or recent hospitalization (within the last 2 weeks)
- Need of an interpreter to communicate in Swedish