Footprints to Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Are Seen in Gait

I guess I'll have to first get my walking ability fairly normal  so my doctors can look at my gait deterioration when it comes time to evaluate my cognitive state. Does your doctor even know about your 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study? 
I will however prevent my dementia by these totally unapproved ways.
Dementia prevention 19 ways

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/health/research/signs-of-cognitive-decline-and-alzheimers-are-seen-in-gait.html

Five studies presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Vancouver this month provide striking evidence that when a person’s walk gets slower or becomes more variable or less controlled, his cognitive function is also suffering.

Thinking skills like memory, planning activities or processing information decline almost in parallel with the ability to walk fluidly, these studies show.

In other words, the more trouble people have walking, the more trouble they have thinking.