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Titled "An Affair to Remember: From Bach to Rock," the event featured country music with a banjo player, a classical pianist, a rock 'n' roll band, and a jazz trio - all accompanied by yummy hors d'oeuvres and heartier fare, plus beer, champagne, margaritas or martinis, depending on your music selection.

Later in the evening, partygoers gathered to honor Hoag Memorial Presbyterian Hospital as Community Partner.

Accepting for Dr.

Gwin Perry was Adult Day Care Services director Cordula Dick-Muehlke.

Alzheimer's Association board member Tom Casey was recognized as Philanthropy Partner, and honored as Volunteer Partner were Mr.

Stox Restaurant owners Debbie, Ron and Chick Marshall for underwriting a fundraising brunch for 14 years in their Anaheim restaurant.

Also honored as Volunteer Partners were Teddy and Cynthia Wells, who organize the brunch's silent auction each year.

"The brunch has given us over $250,000 in assistance," said Jim McAleer, executive director of Alzheimer's Association Orange County.

Dr.

Phil Newman and his father, Samuel Newman, spoke about what a blessing the association's support group has been to them after the death of their mother and wife.

"Club Las Vegas" and dancing to the In Between Band awaited the party-hardy guests.

The good news?

More than $100,000 was netted for Alzheimer's research and family support services.

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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...