Falls and Cognition in Older Persons

Falls as a manifestation of brain Failure (Gait and Cognition).- Dysmobility in aging and the role of cognition.- Epidemiology and Falls risk factors in cognitively impaired older adults.- Depression, Fear of falling, cognition and falls.- Consequences of falls in cognitively impaired people.- Dual-task gait, cognition and Falls.- Gait variability and Falls.- Assistive devices, falls, and cognitive aspects.- Imaging in "gait and cognition syndrome" and falls.- PD and Lewy Body Disease.- MCI: MMO and SMH.- AD and other dementias.- Approaches' in Hospitals and Nursing home settings.- Current gaps in Guidelines and Recommendations.- Physical exercises in cognitively vulnerable older adults and falls.- Cognitive training and falls reduction risk.- Vitamin D, falls and cognition.- Virtual Reality.- Cognitive enhancers.- Dual-task gait training.- Non-invasive brain stimulation.- Falls in cognitively impaired population: evidence, assumptions, and prospect research needed.

Dr. Manuel Montero-Odasso completed his undergraduate medical degree and his Doctorate in Medicine and Gerontology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His postgraduate medical training included residencies in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. He completed a postdoctoral clinical and research fellowship at McGill University, Canada, after which he obtained certification in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine, by the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons, Canada. He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He is the director of the "Gait and Brain Lab" at Parkwood Institute, London, Ontario, where he established a successful Gait and Brain Health research program while remaining an active geriatrician. He focuses on gait performance research combined with neuroimaging as a methodology for the early detection and future prevention of the development of frailty, falls, and dementia in older adults. His clinical trials have applied the novel approach of "improving cognition to improve mobility" using pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches such as physical exercise, cognitive brain and non-invasive brain stimulation. He is team leader in the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA), Canada's dementia research strategy and Team co-leader in the Ontario Neurodegenerative Research Initiative.

Dr. Richard Camicioli completed his undergraduate education in Engineering Chemistry at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He trained in Medicinal Chemistry at McGill University where he completed his medical education. After completing a neurology residency at McGill, he obtained postgraduate research training in Geriatric Neurology and in Movement Disorders at Oregon Health and Sciences University and the Portland VA Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. He then assumed a faculty position as Assistant Professor at