Older adults' experiences of taking up a new community-based leisure activity to promote brain health: A focus group study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

An active and engaged lifestyle is supported as being beneficial for brain health. Activities comprising physical, mental and social demands, or combinations of those, are of particular interest, and have been the focus of specific interventions. Exploring how older people engage with such community-based activities, including facilitators and barriers to participation, may help improve the success of future translational activities. The purpose of this study was therefore to identify factors that enabled or hindered activity engagement by conducting focus groups with people who had been supported to take up a new activity as part of an intervention study.

Materials and methods

Twenty-seven older adults aged 65-86 (56% female) who had completed an activity-based

SUBMITTER: Niechcial MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10495001 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature