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Long-Term Exercise in Older Adults: 4-Year Outcomes of Music-Based Multitask Training
- Source :
- Calcified Tissue International, Vol. 95, No 5 (2014) pp. 393-404
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Prospective controlled evidence supporting the efficacy of long-term exercise to prevent physical decline and reduce falls in old age is lacking. The present study aimed to assess the effects of long-term music-based multitask exercise (i.e., Jaques-Dalcroze eurhythmics) on physical function and fall risk in older adults. A 3-year follow-up extension of a 1-year randomized controlled trial (NCT01107288) was conducted in Geneva (Switzerland), in which 134 community-dwellers aged ≥65 years at increased risk of falls received a 6-month music-based multitask exercise program. Four years following original trial enrolment, 52 subjects (baseline mean ± SD age, 75 ± 8 years) who (i) have maintained exercise program participation through the 4-year follow-up visit (“long-term intervention group”, n = 23) or (ii) have discontinued participation following original trial completion (“control group”, n = 29) were studied. They were reassessed in a blind fashion, using the same procedures as at baseline. At 4 years, linear mixed-effects models showed significant gait (gait speed, P = 0.006) and balance (one-legged stance time, P = 0.015) improvements in the long-term intervention group, compared with the control group. Also, long-term intervention subjects did better on Timed Up & Go, Five-Times-Sit-to-Stand and handgrip strength tests, than controls (P
- Subjects :
- Male
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0171967X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Calcified Tissue International, Vol. 95, No 5 (2014) pp. 393-404
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3d95dd1f9c0db7301ca7ff23047b2896