{"id":28286,"date":"2019-03-18T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T20:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=28286"},"modified":"2019-02-16T18:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T23:26:18","slug":"study-suggests-correlation-of-gait-differences-with-risk-of-depression-in-later-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2019\/03\/study-suggests-correlation-of-gait-differences-with-risk-of-depression-in-later-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests correlation of gait differences with risk of depression in later life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wiley press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"first\" class=\"lead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10339\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/senior_vision.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>Older people who were newly diagnosed with depression had a slower walking speed and a shorter step length compared with those without depression<\/strong> in a recent\u00a0<em>Journal of the American Geriatrics Society<\/em>\u00a0study.<\/p>\n<div id=\"text\">\n<p>Gait parameters and mental health both have significant impacts on functional status in later life. The study&#8217;s findings suggest that <strong>gait problems may represent a potentially modifiable risk factor for depression<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Depression in later life is difficult to diagnose and older people are much less likely to present to a healthcare professional with mood-related symptoms. These findings are important because it is crucial to identify older individuals at higher risk of developing depression in order to promote earlier intervention,&#8221; said lead author Dr. Robert Briggs, of St. James&#8217;s Hospital, in Ireland. &#8220;This study also raises the possibility that <strong>exercise programmes aimed at improving walking speed and balance may help in prevention of depression in later life<\/strong>, though this would need to be tested in dedicated clinical studies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wiley press release: Older people who were newly diagnosed with depression had a slower walking speed and a shorter step length compared with those without depression in a&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2019\/03\/study-suggests-correlation-of-gait-differences-with-risk-of-depression-in-later-life\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[321,345],"tags":[16,14,49,158,12,530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28358,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28286\/revisions\/28358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}