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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...

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Published in:Journal of Aging Research pp. 1 - 9
Main Authors: Gaspar, John G., Neider, Mark B., Kramer, Arthur F.
Format: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2013
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          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
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          Accidental Falls Risk Factors
          Automobile Driving Statistics and Numerical Data
          Computer Simulation Methods
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          Clinical Assessment Tools
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Aged
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          Aged: 65+ years
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      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.
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