A slower walk as you age has always been a warning sign of increasing frailty that could lead to falls and other disabilities, experts say. Emerging research in small groups of elderly subjects has ...

Dementia impacts nearly seven million older adults in the U.S. But the devastating condition often progresses slowly, making it difficult to know if a loved one is struggling early on. However, recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, connected two very specific changes in physical abilities with cognitive ...

A slower walking pace could be a sign of cognitive decline or dementia, a new study suggests. Researchers assessed more than 16,800 healthy people over the age of 65 in the U.S. and Australia during a ...

A slower walking pace could be a sign of cognitive decline or dementia, a new study suggests. Researchers assessed more than 16,800 healthy people over the age of 65 in the US and Australia during a ...

A new “smart insole” system that transmits data based on a person’s gait could one day provide earlier warnings of dementia, orthopedic issues and lumbar disc problems, a recent study says. Writing in ...

My husband was forty when we married. He wasn’t athletic and certainly not in as good of physical shape as I was, but not in bad shape either. However, the one thing I noticed was that he did not walk ...

Slight changes in the way a person walks, like slowing down or developing a variable stride, could be early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Previous studies have linked walking speed in the elderly with ...