Group Recreation to Enhance Function Aging
Purpose
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.
Conditions
- Physical Functioning
- Cognitive Functioning
Eligibility
- Eligible Ages
- Over 60 Years
- Eligible Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
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).
Study Design
- Phase
- N/A
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel Assignment
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- None (Open Label)
Arm Groups
| Arm | Description | Assigned Intervention |
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Experimental Program |
Program participants will receive the recreation-based program. |
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No Intervention Control |
Control participants will receive no recreation-based program. |
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Recruiting Locations
Buffalo-Niagara YMCA
Buffalo 5110629, New York 5128638 14223
Buffalo 5110629, New York 5128638 14223
More Details
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sponsor
- State University of New York at Buffalo