Motor cognitive risk syndrome (MCR) is a novel pre-dementia syndrome characterized by the combination of subjective cognitive complaints and slow walking speed in older adults without any form of dementia or motor disability [1]. Previous studies have shown that MCR is associated with fall, death, disability and other adverse health outcomes [2]. A fall is a sudden, involuntary, unintentional change in position to the ground or a lower plane. Falls in the elderly are a significant public health issue and are the major cause of injury-related disability-adjusted life years and the third most common cause of accidental injury-related death globally [3,4]. Falls
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