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Filter by:This study is being conducted to learn more about how various personal and situational characteristics are related to the ability to produce words in response to definitions. Participants will watch a video, then see definitions and try to come up with a word that fits each one. Participants will also complete some surveys and other measures. Collected data will give researchers a better understanding of how individuals' personality and cognitive traits and setting in which word retrieval occurs relate to the ability to produce individual words.
It has previously been reported that participatory art-based activities may improve social inclusion, well-being, quality of life and health condition. Findings from the investigator's first study seem to confirm that the MMFA participatory art-based activity may improve well-being, quality of life and health condition in older community dwellers. However, these studies were performed before the COVID-19 crisis and were guided tours performed at the MMFA. A pilot study on virtual guided tour has been performed during COVID-19 pandemic (spring 2021). There is a need to confirm benefits with a randomized clinical trial. The hypothesize for this study is that a 3-month cycle of virtual weekly MMFA tours may induce changes in social isolation, well-being, quality of life and health condition (i.e., reduction of frailty) in older community dwellers. Because there is a positive correlation between severity of frailty and the occurrence of undesirable events like Emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations, the investigator hypothesizes that virtual guided tours may decrease the frequency of ED visits and hospitalizations.
This study will investigate the effects of post moderate intensity aerobic exercise hot water immersion on physiological and perceptual responses in physically inactive middle-aged adults when compared to moderate intensity aerobic exercise and hot water immersion alone.
The Housing for Health team is making evidence-based recommendations to the developer and design team of an upcoming congregate-living development to support the healthy living of older adults who will be moving into the new building. There may also be opportunities to improve the surrounding neighbourhood by collaborating with the municipality where the development is located. We will evaluate whether the intervention leads to changes in the perceived, micro-scale, and macro-scale physical built environment (BE), and whether there are impacts on the physical activity (PA), healthy eating, and social connections of residents. In parallel, we will gather qualitative data to provide a more in-depth understanding of how the BE may facilitate or hinder resident's healthy living behaviours.
Currently, one of the main health challenges of public health is to improve the quality of life of people with chronic non-communicable diseases, through new strategies that promote healthy eating habits and lifestyles. Within the new strategies that aim to promote and improve the eating habits of the population, "Sukalmena-InAge" is proposed as a tool for transforming health, where culinary skills and nutritional knowledge converge as a new paradigm to promote health. The merging of culinary knowledge and nutritional education has been coined under the term Culinary Medicine. The present project is presented as an innovative strategy to improve dietary habits of overweight/obese people. To this end, volunteers will participate in an intervention that will be based on cooking workshops and nutritional education. In this sense, participants will receive different cooking and nutritional education sessions in order to be able to give them resources to cook in an easy, enjoyable and healthy way. The study will evaluate the effect that this nutritional-culinary intervention programme might exert on health and will compare these results with the effects obtained providing a more traditional nutritional education. The potential effects will be evaluated through the measurement of specific biochemical parameters related to the most prevalent chronic diseases ( insulin, glucose, total cholesterol, triglycerides, among others). In addition, the measurement of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in tissue will be carried out. High consumption of AGEs, could induce negative effects on health and has been correlated with the type of food consumed, but also with the culinary techniques used for their preparation.
In this study, investigators tried to find a useful and safe way of training for the elderly population which can help this population to improve their fitness factors as fast as possible. investigators have tried to see if different intensity training has different effects on the dynamic and static balance of elderly women in different time points (4, 8, and 12 weeks). Investigators hypothesized that Higher intensity would be more effective to improve balance at different time points. The participants were trained twice per week and each session contain 4 exercises ( leg press, leg extension, leg curl, and seated calf raises) and the data have been collected at the pre-test and 4th, 8th, and 12th weeks of intervention.
In this study, investigators tried to find a useful and safe way of training for the elderly population which can help this population to improve their fitness factors as fast as possible. investigators have tried to see if different intensity training has different effects on muscle strength and functional mobility of elderly women in different time points (4, 8, and 12 weeks). Investigators hypothesized that Higher intensity would be more effective to improve muscle strength and functional mobility at different time points. The participants were trained twice per week and each session contain 4 exercises ( leg press, leg extension, leg curl, and seated calf raises) and the data have been collected at the pre-test and 4th, 8th, and 12th weeks of intervention.
Prospective memory is the ability to remember to carry out intentions with a certain delay (e.g. remember to buy stamps when passing a postal office). Prospective memory tasks require a large degree of self-initiated retrieval and in the absence of a prompt to recall, people must 'remember to remember' by their own volition. Thus, prospective memory is a challenge - especially in old age with increasing health-related prospective memory demands. Previous studies reported links between neural activity in specific brain regions and prospective memory performance. Yet, the mere occurrence of a change in brain activity in concomitance with performance of a behavioral task is not sufficient to confirm a causal relationship between the two phenomena. Therefore, this study aims to apply non-invasive brain stimulation to facilitate or inhibit activity in different brain regions presumed to be functionally associated with prospective memory. Additional to the prospective memory tasks, the investigators will implement control tasks (i.e., attention) to assess whether stimulation will specifically enhance prospective memory performance or whether other cognitive functions will be modulated additionally. It is hypothesized that stimulation will lead to changes in prospective memory functioning. Further, the investigators expect that facilitation of attentional processes might be linked to prospective memory improvements.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) on specific brain regions involved in memory and attention processes. tVNS is a non-invasive and non-pharmacological technique known for targeting the locus coeruleus, a small subcortical nucleus in the brain thought to be involved in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease. This nucleus also plays a role in numerous cognitive functions, comprising memory and attention.
Walking difficulties, mobility decline and falls are prevalent among older adults. The incidence of each of these increases with age and the presence of each can negatively affect the quality of life in older adults. The purpose of this prospective clinical trial is to evaluate the efficacy of the Power Centering for Seniors multimodal, twice weekly, 12-week group intervention program to improve the mobility and quality of life in older, community-dwelling adults.