ArticleDementia and geriatric cognitive disorders2018
Dementia Patients Are More Sedentary and Less Physically Active than Age- and Sex-Matched Cognitively Healthy Older Adults.
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- Use of Wearable Technology for Measuring and Characterizing Sedentary Behavior in People With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: Systematic Review.JMIR aging · 2026Pooled it
- Exergaming for dementia and mild cognitive impairment.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Using Digital Technology to Quantify Habitual Physical Activity in Community Dwellers With Cognitive Impairment: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Total Sedentary Time and Cognitive Function in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2022Pooled it
- Wearable GPS and Accelerometer Technologies for Monitoring Mobility and Physical Activity in Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Pooled it
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- Feasibility of Three Novel Forms of Passive Exercise in a Multisensory Environment in Vulnerable Institutionalized Older Adults with Dementia.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2019Trial
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- Mapping the network structure of dementia and its associated factors among older adults in Singapore: evidence from two national cross-sectional studies.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Changes in device-measured daily physical activity over one year in memory clinic patients.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2026Article
- Neighborhood social environment and physical activity among persons living with dementia.The Gerontologist · 2026Article
- Can objective measures of physical activity and sleep serve as early predictors of dementia among individuals with cognitive impairment?medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Finding the way - nursing staff's perceptions and experiences of outdoor walks with residents in dementia care homes: a qualitative study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- A scoping review and synthesis of the literature on the relation between mobility impairment and cognitive impairment.Disability and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Enrichment of extracellular vesicles using Mag-Net for the analysis of the plasma proteome.Nature communications · 2025Article
- A Multi-Stakeholder Evaluation of a Walking Football Group for People with Dementia Developed in Partnership with a Premier League Club.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Proof-of-concept for integrating multimodal digital health assessments into lifestyle interventions for older adults with dementia risk factors.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Extracellular vesicles contribute to the beneficial effects of exercise training in APP/PS1 mice.iScience · 2025Article
- Behavioral Monitoring in Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke Patients: Exploratory Micro- and Macrostructural Imaging Insights for Identifying Post-Stroke Depression with Accelerometers in UK Biobank.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
aimsThe aim of this study was to examine physical activity and sedentary behaviour characteristics of ambulatory and community-dwelling patients with dementia compared to cognitively healthy age-, sex- and weight-matched controls.
methodsIn this cross-sectional study, we included community-dwelling dementia patients (n = 45, age 79.6 ± 5.9 years, Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE] 22.8 ± 3.2) and matched controls (n = 49, age 80.0 ± 7.7 years, MMSE 29.0 ± 1.2). Participants wore a wrist accelerometer for 7 days to assess sedentary time, sedentary bout duration and time spent in very light, light-to-moderate and moderate-to-vigorous physical activities.
resultsRelative sedentary time and sedentary bout duration was significantly higher in dementia patients than in controls (median [interquartile range] 57% [49-68] vs. 55% [47-59] and 18.3 [16.4-21.1] min vs. 16.6 [15.3-18.4] min, p = 0.042 and p = 0.008, respectively). In addition, dementia patients spent a lower percentage of their waking time in light-to-moderate and moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activities (20% [15-23] vs. 22% [18-25] and 5% [2-10] vs. 10% [5-13], p = 0.017 and p = 0.001, respectively).
conclusionWe revealed that dementia patients are more sedentary and perform less physical activity than cognitively healthy controls. This may have clinically important consequences, given the observation that sedentary behaviour and little physical activity independently predict all-cause mortality and morbidity.
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