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Cognitive tests could help doctors assess risk for falls.

Conversely, slow gait could alert them to check for cognitive impairment.

The findings are in the March issue of Neuropsychology, which is published by the American Psychological Association (APA).Roee Holtzer, Ph.D., and his colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study of 186 cognitively normal, community-dwelling adults aged 70 and older at New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Gait speed was tested with and without interference.

In the interference conditions, participants had to walk while reciting alternate letters of the alphabet.Performance on cognitive tests of executive control and memory, and to a lesser extent of verbal ability, predicted "gait velocity" (walking speed) tested without interference.

For gait velocity tested with interference, only executive control and memory were predictive.

Adding interference to the tests of gait allowed the researchers to better simulate the real world, in which walkers continually deal with distractions.

The authors conclude that executive control and memory function are important when the individual has to walk in a busy environment.The findings suggest that in old age, walking involves higher-order executive-control processes.

That is, the intersecting cognitive and motor processes involved in walking may both rely on a common brain substrate, or set of structures.

As a result, changes in that substrate would affect b...

...ba href=/dementia/a/b has found a place in a residential home after a long battle.

Eighty four year old Thomas pollard would wander the streets barefoot, leave his gas on and start fires.

But Sheffield social services claimed he was fit to live alone in his house on Nether Shire Lane in Ecclesfield.

His family thought Mr Pollard was a danger to himself and others around him, and desperately wanted him given a place at a residential home.

Police took him home after he was found wandering one night.

He had left his gas cooker on, and it appeared he had set fire to some tea towels.

He already received respite care at Haythorne Place care home at Shiregreen Lane, Firth Park, but was not a resident.

On one occasion, Thomas had been sent home from Haythorne Place, but had wandered away again.

After this occurred, bosses made sure he was given a permanent place at the home.His daughter-in-law Susan Pollard said: “He’s now got a permanent place at the home, which we are all relieved about.

“He’s just wandering around there and doesn’t know where he is but he’s quite happy in his own little way.

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...ba href=/dementia/a/b and could not answer questions about what had happened to her, was taken by ambulance to Charlotte Hungerford Hospital where she was treated for injuries and given several stitches over her eye.

She was incapable of placing the Band Aid on her head without help, according to authorities.

A police investigation revealed that her wounds were probably the result of a fall and that Salmon was responsible for causing her to fall.

He tried to cover up the incident by failing to report it, and was seen carrying bloody clothing to a laundry room at the facility.

Salmon initially denied that he had done anything wrong and claimed not to know the patient had been hurt while under his care.

Another nurses aide who was also involved in Mello's care claimed to have seen Mello "covered in blood." A large amount of blood was also found on the bed, floor, wheelchair, and shoes.

It is protocol at the nursing home to use a special belt and two staff members to move patients.

Salmon did not follow proper procedures, police said.

He was arrested on a warrant last June.

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