Movement patterns during gait initiation in older adults with various stages of frailty: a biomechanical analysis.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe research related to human use complies with all the relevant national regulations, institutional policies and was performed under the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration, and has been approved by the authors’ institutional review board (EK 142/18). All participants gave.their written and oral consent. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. We would like to thank The Robert Bosch Stiftung, whose financial support in the funding project “Department of Geriatric Medicine, at the medical faculty of RWTH Aachen University” (grant number 32.5.1140.0009.0) made the establishment of the movement laboratory possible in the first place. Apart from this, the presented work did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors."