Risk and Predictors of Motor‐Performance Decline in a Normally Functioning Population‐Based Sample of Elderly Subjects: The Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging

Abstract

In a population-based cohort of elderly people with normal MP, one-sixth declined in 3 years. Age, sex, distal symmetrical neuropathy, depressive symptoms, and baseline IADLs independently predicted this decline. Distal symmetrical neuropathy is underestimated in the clinical and epidemiological evaluation of motor decline in older people.