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Geriatrics
Mobility for Health and Longevity
Geriatrics INSIGHT
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U A B M ed i c i ne R esour c es
The questions for
physicians to ask their
senior patients: Does
your physical condition
make it hard for you to
climb 10 steps or walk
a quarter-mile? Have
you modified how you
accomplish these tasks?
UAB Review in JAMA: Mobility
Seen as Barometer for Healthy
Aging in Senior Years
i ssue h i gh l i ghts
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Seniors’ Mobility Could Be Barometer for
Healthy Aging
Mobility limitations could be a litmus test for healthy
series, Care of the Aging Patient (September 18, 2013).
“We confirmed that increased physical activity and
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aging, and primary care physicians should take a more
aggressive role in evaluating older patients’ ability to move
exercise are extremely important for healthy aging,”
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about.
says Brown. “We have also identified mobility-limiting
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at the invitation of the Journal of the American Medical
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The authors, Cynthia Brown, MD, MSPH, and Kellie
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Meeting
That’s the take-home suggestion from UAB geriatricians
risk factors and created an approach to help medical
who produced a clinical review of pertinent academic papers
professionals screen for and treat those risk factors.”
Association.
Mobility limitations often are an early sign of functional
decline in seniors and are the edge of a slippery slope that
leads to loss of function and quickly to an across-the-board
Flood, MD, examined papers published between 1985 and
decline in daily-living and other activities. Brown says,
2012. The review was included in the journal’s continuing
“Early recognition of an increase in these limitations gives
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