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| Evaluation of Age and Dementia Friendly Gymnastics Programme | | Author(s) | Vinal Khushal Karania |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 21, no 3, 2017 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 140-146 |
| Source | http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/wwop |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive impairment ; Exercise ; Quality of life ; Care homes ; Day centres ; Pilot ; Qualitative Studies ; Evaluation ; Cambridgeshire. |
| Annotation | In this small-scale pilot qualitative evaluation in two care homes and one day care centre in Cambridgeshire, the author examines the impact of a bilaterally asymmetric gymnastics-based exercise programme on older people participating in a care home and day centre setting. The research included observing sessions delivered; interviews with older people participating, their spouses, family members and friends; interviews with staff; and a review of the diary of each session written by the person delivering the exercise programme. Older people participating in the programme showed a demonstrable improvement with aspects of their physical, emotional and cognitive ability. Older people with mild to advanced forms of dementia appeared to benefit most. The sessions were enjoyable and a real bond developed between the older people. Future research would benefit from understanding whether the observed improvements are reflected in objective measures. Inclusion of a comparison group will be important, to further add to the belief that the observed changes are caused by the programme. Inclusion of a large sample size covering different geographic areas is needed, to test more widely the viability of this programme. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170922234 A |
| Classmark | EA: E4: CEA: F:59: KW: NMC: 4UC: 3DP: 4C: 8C |
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