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The Improvement of Executive Function in Older Adults Through Meditative Movement Exercise (90370)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 17:15
Session: Poster Session 2
Room: Orion Hall (5F)
Presentation Type: Poster Presentation
According to WHO, over 55 million people suffer from dementia, which seriously affects the frontal lobe decay on dementia patients. The decay leads to impairments of executive function, especially in updating ability. Previous studies showed that regular physical exercise could decrease the risk of dementia, but little do they discuss about the influence of meditative exercise. Thus, this study aims to discover if meditative exercise education intervention could improve the executive function (specifically updating ability) in elders. We gathered 150 Taiwanese participants aged 62 to 84 years old (M= 69.98, SD=5.13; 135 women), and divided participants into three groups randomly: aerobic exercise group, meditative movement group, and control group. The exercise intervention groups had been assigned to a 12-week exercise education training for 120 minutes each session, where participants gain specific type of exercise knowledge and practice, either aerobic exercise or meditative movement training. Each group will complete the updating ability task before and after the intervention. Result indicates that both exercise intervention groups showed improvements of updating ability after the 12-week intervention, while the ability of control group declined. The updating improvement of participant in the meditative movement group has greater significant difference than control group, whereas aerobic exercise group doesn’t. In present study, we discovered that participants in meditative movement group improved their updating ability more than those in other groups. Thus, elders should be encouraged to do regular meditative movement exercise, in order to prevent the updating ability from decay and stay healthy at the same time.
Authors:
Chieh-Yi Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Jhih-Yun Lu, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Pei-Zhen Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Hsueh-Chih Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
About the Presenter(s)
Currently work as research assistant in NTNU Taiwan.
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