Gait Speed and Survival in Older Adults

Survival estimates help individualize goals of care for geriatric patients, but life tables fail to account for the great variability in survival. Physical performance measures, such as gait speed, might help account for variability, allowing clinicians to make more individualized estimates.To evaluate the relationship between gait speed and survival.Pooled analysis of 9 cohort studies (collected between 1986 and 2000), using individual data...