Evaluating the Feasibility and Effects of a Short-Term Task Specific Power Training With and Without Cognitive Training Among Older Adults With Slow Gait Speed: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the feasibility and efficacy of short-term functional power training and further examine whether the addition of cognitive training targeting sustained attention and inhibitory control would augment the effect on the outcomes.

Design

Randomized pilot study.

Setting

Clinical research facility.

Participants

Community-dwelling primary care patients (N=25) aged >65 years with mobility limitation within the VA Boston Healthcare System.

Interventions

Participants were randomly assigned to either functional power training (n=14) or functional power+cognitive training (n=11), offered 3 times a week for 6 weeks. Session durations were either 70 minutes (functional power+cognitive training) or 40 minutes (functional power training).

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SUBMITTER: Ogawa EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8211979 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature