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

SKLENAŘÍKOVÁ, Jana, Alena SKOTÁKOVÁ, Pavlína VACULÍKOVÁ, Roman GRMELA, Lenka SVOBODOVÁ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

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

Authors

SKLENAŘÍKOVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Alena SKOTÁKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Pavlína VACULÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Roman GRMELA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Lenka SVOBODOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Martin SEBERA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Brno, Brno, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Kinanthropology, p. 632 - 639, 8 pp. 2017

Publisher

Masarykova Univerzita

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

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

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14510/17:00106929

Organization unit

Faculty of Sports Studies

ISBN

978-80-210-8917-4

UT WoS

000467203700063

Keywords in English

Alzheimer’s disease;healthy senior;Senior Fitness Test;dance

Tags

Změněno: 5/5/2020 09:47, Mgr. Pavlína Roučová, DiS.

Abstract

V originále

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

Links

NV15-33854A, research and development project
Name: Efekt intenzivní tanečně-pohybové intervence na kognitivní funkce a změny mozkové plasticity zdravých seniorů a pacientů s mírnou kognitivní poruchou