Exercise Becoming A New Frontier In Efforts To Battle Cognitive Decline

Study supports benefits of exercise for older adults

Kathy Long, director of Senior Services’ Elizabeth and Tab Williams Day Center in Winston-Salem, said it is important to understand that “confusion is never normal.” People who are older shouldn’t fear disclosing a problem because confusion does not necessarily mean dementia, Long said. Urinary tract infection, pneumonia and reaction to medication are just three common issues that can cause cognitive problems, p90X3 review and they can be easily treated. For more than a decade, Laura Baker, a cognitive neuroscientist and associate professor of geriatrics and gerontology at Wake Forest Baptist, has been studying the benefits of aerobic exercise in slowing cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. Next year, Baker will work with the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study consortium at the University of California, San Diego, in a $5.5 million effort funded by the National Institute on Aging. She also directs other exercise and memory studies at Wake Forest Baptist, such as the program in which Fontrier and Dobson are participating.
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Ernestine Wright. She said a recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine supports the benefits of any exercise, such as walking, for older people. “It showed patients who exercised regularly were less likely to develop chronic illnesses. They were less likely to have problems with memory loss. They were less likely to have problems with mental illnesses,” http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/p90x3-reviews/sbwire-455028.htm Wright said.
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