McKnight's March 8, 2024
Wearable technology that measures spatial navigation and gait could improve detection of diseases that cause dementia, according to a new study.
Researchers performed two reviews to look at the evidence on measuring navigation and gait, which are two behaviors affected early in people with Alzhiemer’s disease and nonAlzheimer’s disorders. The results of their reviews were published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia on March 1. The study also included a framework to evaluate evidence on other factors that could predict disease detection in the future.
“Separately, wearable devices would permit disease detection at a scale beyond that possible with current positron emission tomography (PET) — and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)–based biomarker tests, which are expensive, invasive and very restricted in their global availability,”...
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