Effect of Exercise on Behavioral Symptoms and Pain in Patients With Dementia Living in Nursing Homes.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Examine the effects of a 6-month exercise intervention on neuropsychiatric symptoms, pain, and medication consumption in older people with dementia (PWD) living in nursing homes (NH).

Methods

Ninety-one older PWD living in NH performed a 6-month structured exercise intervention (n = 44) or a social activity intervention (n = 47). Neuropsychiatric symptoms were measured by the neuropsychiatric inventory (NPI), pain was assessed using the Algoplus scale, and dementia-related drug prescriptions were obtained for all participants.

Results

Between-group analysis found a nonsignificant difference that could be of clinical relevance: a 4-point difference in the NPI and 1.3-point difference in the reduction of the number of medications favoring exercisers. No signi

SUBMITTER: Maltais M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10852510 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature