The effectiveness of mental imagery on motor, cognitive and emotional status of older people with early-stage dementia: A study protocol.

ABSTRACT: Dementia involves the loss of cognitive abilities and represents a decline from the prior level of function which impairs functional abilities in day-to-day life. No previous experimental research has been done to assess mental imagery (MI) effectiveness in the motor, cognitive and emotional status of individuals with early-stage dementia. One hundred and forty older individuals with early-stage dementia from the Day Care Centre of the Alzheimer Association in Athens will take part in this study. The sample will be randomly divided into three groups: MI and physical exercise (intervention group), only physical exercise (1^st control group), and neither MI nor physical exercise (2^nd control group). Assessment will be obtained one week prior to the program, in the middle

SUBMITTER: Christakou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9975972 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature