About the Authors

Thomas J. Hagedorn

Affiliation Institute of Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alyssa B. Dufour

Affiliations Institute of Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jody L. Riskowski

Affiliations Institute of Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute of Applied Health Research, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Howard J. Hillstrom

Affiliation Leon Root MD, Motion Analysis Laboratory, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, United States of America

Hylton B. Menz

Affiliation Lower Extremity and Gait Studies Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

Virginia A. Casey

Affiliation Institute of Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marian T. Hannan

Hannan@hsl.harvard.edu

Affiliations Institute of Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MTH HJH. Performed the experiments: MTH HJH. Analyzed the data: ABD TJH. Wrote the manuscript: TJH ABD JLR HJH HBM VAC MTH. Interpretation of data: TJH JLR HJH HBM.