Uppsala-Dalarna Dementia and Gait Project

Status: Recruiting
Location: See all (2) locations...
Intervention Type: Diagnostic test
Study Type: Observational
SUMMARY

UDDGait™ is a multidisciplinary research project with the overreaching goal of providing an aid for early identification of cognitive impairment and risk of dementia development, thereby providing a basis for adequate symptom relieving and health promoting interventions. A new concept is investigated for this purpose: a dual-task-test, which implies the combination of a well-established mobility test (Timed Up-and-Go, TUG) with a simultaneous verbal task (i.e. TUG dual-task, TUGdt). This type of test has been judged as a potential aid for early identification of dementia disease. More research is needed to further examine the test's validity, reliability and predictive capacity. The overall aim is to investigate if TUGdt is useful as an aid for prediction of dementia disease. To ensure the results, the aim is also to evaluate the test's measurement properties and to generate normative reference values of healthy control persons.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 37
Maximum Age: 94
Healthy Volunteers: t
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• Patients undergoing memory assessment at at Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden

• Patients undergoing memory assessment at at Falu Hospital, Sweden

• Cognitively unimpaired individuals with a Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) score of \> 26

Locations
Other Locations
Sweden
Dalarna University
COMPLETED
Falun
Uppsala University
RECRUITING
Uppsala
Contact Information
Primary
Anna Cristina Åberg, PhD
aab@du.se
+4623778082
Backup
Vilmantas Giedraitis, PhD
vilmantas.giedraitis@uu.se
+46734697455
Time Frame
Start Date: 2015-04-09
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-12-24
Participants
Target number of participants: 550
Treatments
Patients undergoing memory assessments
Patients undergoing memory assessments at two specialist memory clinics (Uppsala University Hospital in Uppsala and Falu Hospital in Falun). This group includes patients with dementia, mild cognitive impairment and subjective cognitive impairment.
Cognitively unimpaired community dwelling people
Age matched cognitively unimpaired community dwelling people recruited via advertisements.
Cognitively unimpaired community dwelling people recruited for test-retest reliability analysis
Cognitively unimpaired individuals who agreed to participate in a retesting session.
Persons with cognitive impairment recruited for test-retest reliability analysis
Patients undergoing memory assessment at Uppsala University Hospital who agreed to participate in a retesting session and community dwelling older persons with self-reported subjective or mild cognitive impairment. This group includes patients with dementia, mild cognitive impairment and subjective cognitive impairment.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: Uppsala University, The Swedish Research Council
Leads: Dalarna University

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