Non-pharmacological motor-cognitive treatment to improve the mental health of elderly adults.

Javiera Ponce Claudia Latín Víctor Leiva Guillermo Cortés-Roco Fernando Rodríguez-Rodríguez Christian E Jiménez

Published in: Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) (2019)

Due to the almost null evidence of scientific interventions of programs that integrate physical activity and cognitive tasks together in Chilean elderly adults, a program of physical-cognitive dual task was proposed as a non-pharmacological treatment, easy to apply and of low cost to benefit their integral health, which improves significantly the cognitive and depressive levels of institutionalized elderly adults.

Keyphrases

mental health
physical activity
low cost
middle aged
public health
healthcare
community dwelling
body mass index
combination therapy
depressive symptoms
working memory
bipolar disorder
quality improvement
climate change
stress induced
social media
sleep quality