Attention, Frailty, and Falls: The Effect of a Manual Task on Basic Mobility

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of a second task on balance and gait maneuvers used in everyday life. Our hypothesis was that those who were more distracted by a familiar manual task performed concurrently with functional maneuvers were more frail and more prone to falls.

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