Effect of home-based rehabilitation on activities of daily living and gait in older adults with heart failure at risk for falling: A retrospective cohort study

Abstract

Patients with heart failure receiving home-based rehabilitation services make significant improvements in ADL function and gait performance. Greater ADL improvements are associated with younger age, faster gait speed at baseline, and greater impairment of baseline ADL scores. Age, baseline gait speed, and ADL composite score are significantly related to making a change beyond measurement error in ADL change score.