Group Recreation to Enhance Function Aging
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Exercise and art.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Physical Functioning, Cognitive Functioning. Basic parameters: from 60 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
A Community-Based Recreation Program to Improve Function and Quality of Life in Older Adults
Overview
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.
Interventions
- Behavioral Exercise and art
Weekly SMARTfit dual-task exergaming and group art-making
Primary outcome measures
- Cognitive Function: Attention [Time frame: From enrollment to week 8 and then week 16]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- Balance [Time frame: From enrollment to week 8 and then week 16]
- Dual-Task Performance [Time frame: From enrollment to week 8 and then week 16]
- Cognitive Function: Interference Inhibition [Time frame: baseline to week 8, through week 16]
Eligibility 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).
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Buffalo-Niagara YMCA — Buffalo
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07050589 · 00008757