Fear of Falling as a Behavioral Symptom in Neurocognitive Impaired Patients: Evidence from an Underrepresented Population.

Background: Fear of falling (FoF) is a condition associated with falls, multi-morbidity, and functional impairment. To date it remains unknow which clinical, somatic, socio-demographic, behavioral, and emotional factors are associated with FoF and how these factors interact in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).

Objective: Identify the association of FoF with clinical, socio-demographic, and neuropsychiatric factors in patients with AD and bvFTD.