THE LEVEL OF PHYSICAL ABILITIES OF HEALTHY SENIORS AND PATIENTS WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT
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| Rok publikování | 2017 |
| Druh | Článek ve sborníku |
| Konference | Brno, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Kinanthropology |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | SKLENAŘÍKOVÁ, Jana, Alena SKOTÁKOVÁ, Pavlína VACULÍKOVÁ, Roman GRMELA, Lenka SVOBODOVÁ a Martin SEBERA. THE LEVEL OF PHYSICAL ABILITIES OF HEALTHY SENIORS AND PATIENTS WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT. Online. In Martin Zvonař, Zuzana SAjdlová. Brno, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Kinanthropology. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita, 2017, s. 632 - 639. ISBN 978-80-210-8917-4. |
| www | http://conference.fsps.muni.cz/media/3065171/proceedings-of-the-11th-conference-on-kinanthropology.pdf |
| Klíčová slova | Alzheimer’s disease;healthy senior;Senior Fitness Test;dance |
| Popis | 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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