Effects of a program combining walking and cognitive training on memory and behavior of older persons with dementia.
Recruiting
- Conditions
- dementia, cognitive, walking, face-name learning, combined interventiondementie, cognitie, lopen, gezichtsherkenning, gecombineerde therapie
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON27039
- Lead Sponsor
- VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Psychology and Education, department of Clinical NeuropsychologyAmsterdam
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 164
Inclusion Criteria
1. Living in a nursing home;
2. Aged older than 70 years;
Exclusion Criteria
Residents will be excluded if they have any of the following:
1. A Mini-Mental State Examination score of 17
2. Visual disturbances precluding cognitive assessment;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Working memory: Digit span backward;<br /><br>2. Verbal fluency: From the Groninger Intelligence Test (GIT) the word fluency animals and word fluency occupations subtests;<br /><br>3. Inhibion: Stroop color-word test;<br /><br>4. Memory: From the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (RBMT) the faces recognition and picture recognition subtests; from the Amsterdam Dementia-Screeningstest (ADS-6) the eight word test.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Global cognition: Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE);<br /><br>2. Frailty: Tilbuger Frailty Indicator (TFI);<br /><br>3. Depressive symptoms: Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-30);<br /><br>4. Face-name learning data base;<br /><br>5. Face recognition (free recall, visual recognition, verbal recognition);<br /><br>6. Endurance: 6 minute walking test;<br /><br>7. Strength: Sit to stand test;<br /><br>8. Walking speed: Timed Up and Go (TUG), 6m walk test, 10m walk test.