Group Recreation to Enhance Function Aging

University at Buffalo (UB)

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Physical Functioning

Cognitive Functioning

Treatments

Behavioral: Exercise and art

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT07050589

00008757

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigators will develop and deliver a community-based recreation program, delivering group artmaking and group SMARTfit dual-task exergaming to community-dwelling older adults. The program will be delivered through the Buffalo-Niagara YMCA. Outcomes of interest are change in cognitive function and change in physical functioning, inresponse to 24 weeks of weekly training.

Enrollment

80 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

60+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

> = 60 years of age
have no more than MCI (MoCA score ≥ 24 points)
have no contraindications to exercise, guided by the American College of Sports Medicine
fluent in English

Exclusion Criteria

have a condition that would prevent safe participation in the exercise, as determined by the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Older Adults (PAR-OA);
have severe neurological disease
have severe psychiatric illness
have a likelihood of withdrawing from the study due to severe illness or a life expectancy of < 6 mo
have experienced a lower or upper limb amputation
have greater than mild cognitive impairment (MoCA score < 24 points).