A Review of Combined Training Studies in Older Adults According to a New Categorization of Conventional Interventions.

ABSTRACT: Physical and cognitive training are effective to attenuate age-related declines of brain and cognition. Accordingly, interest in interventions that combine physical, motor, and cognitive exercises has recently grown. In the present review, we aimed to determine whether and under which conditions combined training could be more effective than separated cognitive and physical training, thanks to a structured framework build around seven interacting constructs (stimuli, settings, targets, markers, outcomes, moderators, and mechanisms), which collectively afford a global picture of the determining factors of combined training. We concluded that the general principles underlying the effectiveness of combined training were still difficult identify, due to the heterogeneity of the available studi

SUBMITTER: Torre MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8844451 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature