For identifying people who fall, the TUG was found to have a sensitivity and specificity of 87%.29 Ranges of TUG scores have been reported for various samples of elderly people. In the study by Podsiadlo and Richardson,27 10 men and women without known pathology, aged 70 to 84 years (X=75 years, SD not specified), had a mean TUG score of 8.5 seconds (SD not specified, range=7–10).