Developing Patient-Centered Preventative Care to Reduce Mobility Disability With Aging: Preferences From a Discrete Choice Experiment.

Background And Purpose: Mobility disability is the most prevalent form of disability for older adults in the United States. A physical therapy mobility checkup (MC) under development is a patient-centered preventative physical therapy visit. It includes physical performance testing and education on physical performance as a valuable and modifiable health indicator.

Performance and Clinimetric Properties of the Timed Up From Floor Test Completed by Apparently Healthy Community-Dwelling Older Women.

Background And Purpose: Standing up from the floor is a demanding mobility activity with important implications. The purpose of this study was to describe performance and the clinimetric properties of the Timed Up From Floor (TUFF) test completed by apparently healthy community-dwelling older women.

Methods: In this observational and methodological quality study, 52 community-dwelling women, 55 years and older, were examined.