Medscape October 11, 2024
Older adults at risk for dementia can be identified using mobile data obtained during a wayfinding task, a novel real-world study suggested.
During a smartphone-assisted scavenger hunt on a university campus, researchers observed that older adults with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) paused more frequently, likely to reorient themselves, than those without SCD. This behavior served as an identifier of individuals with SCD.
“Deficits in spatial navigation are one of the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease,” study investigator Nadine Diersch, PhD, guest researcher with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany, told Medscape Medical News.
This study, said Diersch, provides “first evidence of how a digital footprint for early dementia-related cognitive decline might look like in real-world settings during...
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