THE EFFECT OF AEROBIC AND GAME BASED EXERCISES ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS IN DEMENTIA

Summary

With the positive contribution of technological developments to living conditions and improvements in health services, the ratio of elderly population to general population is increasing all over the world. Cognitive decline and deterioration are among the most feared in the elderly and have high costs. Dementia is one of the most common diseases of old age. The prevalence of dementia increases in societies where the elderly population increases. At first, while memory is impaired, functions such as attention, language, visuospatial skills, perception and problem solving are impaired. It is estimated that the number of people living with dementia in the world is now 35.6 million, and it will reach 131.5 million by 2050.

Since there is no treatment or effective disease modifying drug to treat the most common types of dementia to date, the research should focus on the development and implementation of non-pharmacological interventions as an alternative or as an additional treatment. In the field of rehabilitation; regular physical exercises, such as walking, strength and balance exercises, dance and chair exercises, can improve physical and cognitive functions such as fitness, daily functions, executive functions, language and working memory in people living with dementia. Movement activation groups such as psychomotor group therapy have been found to have a positive effect on the social behavior of people living with emotional and dementia. Recent meta-analyzes have shown that physical exercise can help maintain and even improve cognitive function in healthy elderly adults. There is evidence that exercise increases the volume of the prefrontal cortex and anterior hippocampus and may increase neurogenesis.

Computer-based cognitive education has received great attention as a safe, relatively inexpensive and scalable intervention aimed at protecting cognition in older adults. It is an innovative way of exercising in a virtual reality or gaming environment that can help dementia patients to be physically active while being cognitively stimulated.

In our study, it was seen that the number of studies on this subject is small and the devices used in the studies were made with game consoles and there were problems in working with game consoles in patients with dementia. Within the framework of all this information, we aimed to investigate the cognitive effects of physical activity and their differences according to each other with computer assisted exergame study written for rehabilitation in demented individuals; We aim to increase cognitive functions and increase quality of life and reaction time of exergamine dementia.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Computer Based Exercises

For 8 weeks 3 days a week for 45 minutes See-ME Virtual Rehabilitation system with the physical therapist will perform cognitive and physical activity exercises

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Aerobic Exercises

For 8 weeks 3 days a week exercise bike with 5 min warm-up 35 min constant speed exercise 5 min cooling, a total of 45 min prescribed by the physiotherapist to the maximum heart rate will do aerobic exercise work. Cardiac values will also be monitored throughout the session

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Istanbul Medipol University Hospital

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

65 Years

Max Age

99 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-04-20

Primary Completion

2025-01-31

Completion

2025-01-31

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations