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Moderate-Intensity Physical Activity, Music and Art Activities Preserved Cognitive Health in Older Adults: An Argument for Social Prescribing Solution

Introduction: Rates of dementia are projected to increase over the coming years as global populations age. Without a treatment to slow the progression of dementia, many health policies are focusing on preventing dementia by slowing the rate of cognitive decline with age. However, it is unclear which...

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Autores principales: Arab, Ali, Christie, Gregory J., Mansouri, Mehrdad, Ahmadzadeh, Maryam, Sixsmith, Andrew, Ester, Martin, Moreno, Sylvain
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8415746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34483879
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.693791
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author Arab, Ali
Christie, Gregory J.
Mansouri, Mehrdad
Ahmadzadeh, Maryam
Sixsmith, Andrew
Ester, Martin
Moreno, Sylvain
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Christie, Gregory J.
Mansouri, Mehrdad
Ahmadzadeh, Maryam
Sixsmith, Andrew
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Moreno, Sylvain
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description Introduction: Rates of dementia are projected to increase over the coming years as global populations age. Without a treatment to slow the progression of dementia, many health policies are focusing on preventing dementia by slowing the rate of cognitive decline with age. However, it is unclear which lifestyle changes in old age meaningfully reduce the rate of cognitive decline associated with aging. Objectives: Use existing, multi-year longitudinal health data to determine if engagement in a variety of different lifestyle activities can slow the rate of cognitive decline as older adults age. Method: Data from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging was analyzed using a quasi-experimental, efficient matched-pair design inspired by the clinical trial methodology. Changes in short-term memory scores were assessed over a multi-year interval for groups who undertook one of 11 different lifestyle activities, compared to control groups matched across confounding socioeconomic and lifestyle factors. Results: Two factors, moderate-intensity physical activity and learning activities, resulted in significant positive impact on cognitive function. Conclusion: Our analysis brings cognitive benefit arguments in favor of two lifestyle activities, moderate-intensity physical activity and learning activities, while rejecting other factors advanced by the literature such as vigorous-intensity physical activity. Those findings justify and encourage the development of new lifestyle health programs by health authorities and bring forward the new health system solution, social prescribing.
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spelling pubmed-84157462021-09-04 Moderate-Intensity Physical Activity, Music and Art Activities Preserved Cognitive Health in Older Adults: An Argument for Social Prescribing Solution Arab, Ali Christie, Gregory J. Mansouri, Mehrdad Ahmadzadeh, Maryam Sixsmith, Andrew Ester, Martin Moreno, Sylvain Front Aging Neurosci Neuroscience Introduction: Rates of dementia are projected to increase over the coming years as global populations age. Without a treatment to slow the progression of dementia, many health policies are focusing on preventing dementia by slowing the rate of cognitive decline with age. However, it is unclear which lifestyle changes in old age meaningfully reduce the rate of cognitive decline associated with aging. Objectives: Use existing, multi-year longitudinal health data to determine if engagement in a variety of different lifestyle activities can slow the rate of cognitive decline as older adults age. Method: Data from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging was analyzed using a quasi-experimental, efficient matched-pair design inspired by the clinical trial methodology. Changes in short-term memory scores were assessed over a multi-year interval for groups who undertook one of 11 different lifestyle activities, compared to control groups matched across confounding socioeconomic and lifestyle factors. Results: Two factors, moderate-intensity physical activity and learning activities, resulted in significant positive impact on cognitive function. Conclusion: Our analysis brings cognitive benefit arguments in favor of two lifestyle activities, moderate-intensity physical activity and learning activities, while rejecting other factors advanced by the literature such as vigorous-intensity physical activity. Those findings justify and encourage the development of new lifestyle health programs by health authorities and bring forward the new health system solution, social prescribing. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8415746/ /pubmed/34483879 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.693791 Text en Copyright © 2021 Arab, Christie, Mansouri, Ahmadzadeh, Sixsmith, Ester and Moreno. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Arab, Ali
Christie, Gregory J.
Mansouri, Mehrdad
Ahmadzadeh, Maryam
Sixsmith, Andrew
Ester, Martin
Moreno, Sylvain
Moderate-Intensity Physical Activity, Music and Art Activities Preserved Cognitive Health in Older Adults: An Argument for Social Prescribing Solution
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title_fullStr Moderate-Intensity Physical Activity, Music and Art Activities Preserved Cognitive Health in Older Adults: An Argument for Social Prescribing Solution
title_full_unstemmed Moderate-Intensity Physical Activity, Music and Art Activities Preserved Cognitive Health in Older Adults: An Argument for Social Prescribing Solution
title_short Moderate-Intensity Physical Activity, Music and Art Activities Preserved Cognitive Health in Older Adults: An Argument for Social Prescribing Solution
title_sort moderate-intensity physical activity, music and art activities preserved cognitive health in older adults: an argument for social prescribing solution
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8415746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34483879
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.693791
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