Impact of Exercise Intervention for Fitness and Cognitive Functioning on People with Mild Neurocognitive Disorder
Autor: | Wu, Yun-Ru, 吳韻茹 |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
Popis: | 106 The findings of recent research indicate that the the rate of suffering from mild cognitive function disorder increases with age. The past researches revealed that there were nearly 10-15% of them turn into Dementia which 5 times far more over than normal ones, and this is also a vital problem for the aging society of Taiwan. The treatments for these patients are medical and non-medical ones, and the latter ones are multiple. One of non-medical treatments is the exercise intervention which can promote cerebral oxygenation, then move on to better things for people with mild neurocognitive function disorder. This research aimed on the impact of exercise intervention for fitness and cognitive functioning on people with mild neurocognitive disorder. The method of this research is one-group pretest-posttest, and the object of the research were based on people with mild neurocognitive function disorder, and 8 applicants were screened and met the criterion of Mini-mental state examination, MMSE test. The aerobic intervention lasted for 12 weeks. The fitness and cognitive functioning test were taken before and after the intervention. The results show made a significant progress on flexibility, agility, dynamic balance, memory test in MoCA, and the score of LOTCA-G for the subjects. The conclusion is that the twice-a-week moderate-intensity exercise intervention which had lasted for three months partially improves the functional fitness and cognitive function on people with mild neurocognitive disorder, including flexibility, agility, dynamic balance, memory test in MoCA, and the score of LOTCA-G. |
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