Motoric cognitive risk syndrome and incident hospitalization in Quebec's older population: results of the NuAge cohort study

• Main Authors: Beauchet, Olivier, Matskiv, Jacqueline, Launay, Cyrille P., Gaudreau, Pierrette, Allali, Gilles
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Cognitive Impairment; Cohort Study
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163632
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Background: Screening older adults at risk of hospitalization is essential to prevention of this adverse event. Motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR) has been associated with incident dementia and falls, which are both risk factors of hospitalization. There is no information on the association of MC...