Rehabilitation in the home-care setting is designed tosafely reintroduce people to their community. The Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) is thestandardized tool used in the United States at patientintake to attempt to monitor care in home-care agencies
and to adjust payments to account for differences inpatients [10]. The purpose of this study was to determinewhether there was a relationship between cognitive functioning in a large home-care agency Medicare OASIS database and observed gait/balance performance. Thisarticle attempts to describe the relationship between the OASIS measure of cognition and standardized measures
of gait performance. This relationship has not previouslybeen described in the home-care practice setting. Standardized measures of gait are not commonly performed in the home-care setting, but are often used to document gait impairments in community-living older persons.