Falls Risk and Simulated Driving Performance in Older Adults.
Declines in executive function and dual-task performance have been related to falls in older adults, and recent research suggests that older adults at risk for falls also show impairments on real-world tasks, such as crossing a street. The present study examined whether falls risk was associated wit...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Aging Research pp. 1 - 9 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2013
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104055310&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 104055310 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 20902204 B6D6 jtl: Journal of Aging Research issn: 20902204 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2013 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 104055310 104055310 2012524683 NLM23509627 PMC3595928 104055310 ppf: 1 ppct: 8 formats: tig: atl: Falls Risk and Simulated Driving Performance in Older Adults. aug: au: Gaspar, John G. Neider, Mark B. Kramer, Arthur F. affil: Department of Psychology and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA sug: subj: Accidental Falls Risk Factors Automobile Driving Statistics and Numerical Data Computer Simulation Methods Human Clinical Assessment Tools Task Performance and Analysis Aged Male Female Aged: 65+ years Male Female ab: Declines in executive function and dual-task performance have been related to falls in older adults, and recent research suggests that older adults at risk for falls also show impairments on real-world tasks, such as crossing a street. The present study examined whether falls risk was associated with driving performance in a high-fidelity simulator. Participants were classified as high or low falls risk using the Physiological Profile Assessment and completed a number of challenging simulated driving assessments in which they responded quickly to unexpected events. High falls risk drivers had slower response times (∼2.1 seconds) to unexpected events compared to low falls risk drivers (∼1.7 seconds). Furthermore, when asked to perform a concurrent cognitive task while driving, high falls risk drivers showed greater costs to secondary task performance than did low falls risk drivers, and low falls risk older adults also outperformed high falls risk older adults on a computer-based measure of dual-task performance. Our results suggest that attentional differences between high and low falls risk older adults extend to simulated driving performance. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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