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Dawn Venema, PT, PhD, interviewed on recent publication

Written by Fran Higgins
Published Oct 16, 2013

Assessing the Impact of Cognitive Impairment on Multi-Tasking

By ElderBranch Team On October 11, 2013

ElderBranch interviewed Dr. Venema to discuss her paper, “Tasks matter: a cross-sectional study of the relationship of cognition and dual-task performance in older adults.” Dr. Venema wrote the paper along with Dr. Emily Bartels and Dr. Ka-Chun Siu, both also of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

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Greg Karst says:

October 16, 2013 at 9:41 am

Dawn and colleagues: Nice interview. The results of the intervention study could prove very useful.

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