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| Exergames and their acceptance among nursing home residents | | Author(s) | Gudrun Ulbrecht, David Wagner, Elmar Grassel |
| Journal title | Activities, Adaptation and Aging, vol 36, no 2, April-June 2012 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, April-June 2012 |
| Pages | pp 93-106 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Residents [care homes] ; Exercise ; Therapy ; Computing [leisure] ; Attitude. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this uncontrolled, pre-post longitudinal pilot study was to evaluate how many persons among nursing home residents with dementia would accept accelerometer-based exergames (i.e. television-based Wii video games) and to get to know their special characteristics. The pre-post assessment was conducted in a sample of 79 residents. Of these residents, a total of 41 (51.8%) showed cognitive impairment indicative of dementia according to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). By the end of the first phase of the study, which lasted three weeks, 27 of the 79 residents had accepted the use of exergames and continued to play the games during the second phase of the study (which, depending on the nursing home, lasted either three weeks or eight weeks). Participants who accepted the exergames were significantly younger, had less cognitive impairment and were interested in more hobbies. In participants who accepted the games, cognitive function improved slightly over the study, but not in a statistically significant fashion. These findings suggest that, with supervision, exergames may be suitable for every fifth person in a nursing home. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130208214 A |
| Classmark | EA: LHB: KX: CEA: LO: HPC: DP |
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