THE LEVEL OF PHYSICAL ABILITIES OF HEALTHY SENIORS AND PATIENTS WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Brno, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Kinanthropology |
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| Web | http://conference.fsps.muni.cz/media/3065171/proceedings-of-the-11th-conference-on-kinanthropology.pdf |
| Keywords | Alzheimer’s disease;healthy senior;Senior Fitness Test;dance |
| 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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