title: Functional Living in Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: Executive Functioning, Dual Task Performance, and the Impact on Postural Stability and Motor Control.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) experience accelerated age-related decline in some domains of cognition. The present study sought to investigate executive functioning and dual tasking capacities in this group.
  
  
  METHODS
  Older adults with DM2 and age-matched controls completed self-report measures assessing everyday activities, a comprehensive cognitive battery and more specific tasks assessing executive functioning, dual tasking, postural stability, and motor control.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Executive abilities were particularly compromised in the participants with DM2. Furthermore, the DM2 group exhibited reduced postural stability under dual task conditions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings suggest that deficits in more complex cognitive activities underlie the decline in everyday function in DM2.
authors.affiliation: Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
authors.forename: Jane E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Else
authors.affiliation: University of Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: Lorna
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.affiliation: Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Government of Western Australia Department of Health, Perth, Australia University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
authors.forename: Jonathan K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Foster
authors.affiliation: Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.affiliation: Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Bracket Global, Goring on Thames, UK.
authors.forename: Keith A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Wesnes
authors.affiliation: Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK leigh.riby@northumbria.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Leigh M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Riby
keywords: dual tasking; executive functioning; functional living; postural stability; type 2 diabetes