Research Project: UDDGait™: Uppsala-Dalarna Dementia and Gait project

Project leader
Anna Cristina Åberg
Project Members
Lars Berglund
Kevin McKee
Johanna Rosberg Petersson
Vilmantas Giedraitis, Uppsala universitet
Kjartan Halvorsen, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de Mexico, Mexiko
Martin Ingelsson, Uppsala universitet
Fredrik Olsson, Stardots AB
Erik Rosendahl, Umeå universitet
Project Period
-
Project Status
Present
Description
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.
We are investigating a new concept for this purpose, ”dual-task-test”, which in our studies 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 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.
Keywords
Research Profile
Health and Social Welfare
Subject
Medical Science
Caring Science
Financiers
Vetenskapsrådet
Vetenskapsrådet
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