Toward an understanding of real-world mobility in Parkinson's: insights from enhanced contextualisation using GPS-derived location and data-driven modeling of walking speed.
Introduction: Conventional clinical assessments do not fully capture how Parkinson's disease (PD) affects mobility in daily life. Integrating digital mobility outcomes (DMOs) from wearable devices with GPS-derived contextual data could provide richer insight into real-world mobility, yet this approa...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience pp. 1 - 14 |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2026
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