THE LEVEL OF PHYSICAL ABILITIES OF HEALTHY SENIORS AND PATIENTS WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

THE LEVEL OF PHYSICAL ABILITIES OF HEALTHY SENIORS AND PATIENTS WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT

Original language description

Purpose: Alzheimer s disease (AD) is the major cause of dementia in seniors. Pharmacological disease as a modifying treatment is not available and increasing at - tention is thus being given to non-pharmacological approaches. The aim of this article was to compare the results of Senior Fitness Tests of two groups – healthy seniors (HS) and patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in AD. Methods: 69 subjects were included in the study, randomized group attended a 6 months dance-exercise intervention with 50 training units. Initial and output examination included “chair stand test”, “8 foot test”, “6 minutes’ walk test”. Results: The difference between MCI group and HS group was not significant. Groups achieved similar results in three seniors test. Findings confirmed the similarity of the two groups

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

<a href="/en/project/NV15-33854A" target="_blank" >NV15-33854A: Effect of intensive dance-exercise intervention on cognition and brain plasticity in healthy seniors and patients with mild cognitive impairment</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Brno, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Kinanthropology

ISBN

9788021089174

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

632-639

Publisher name

Masarykova Univerzita

Place of publication

Brno

Event location

2017

Event date

Jan 1, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000467203700063