ArticleAmerican journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias2019
Effect of Exercise on Behavioral Symptoms and Pain in Patients With Dementia Living in Nursing Homes.
Article in American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Algorithm-based pain management for people with dementia in nursing homes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Nonpharmacological Pain Management for People With Dementia: A Scoping Review Mapping Research Gaps From a Pragmatic Lens.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Oxidative damage in neurodegeneration: roles in the pathogenesis and progression of Alzheimer disease.Physiological reviews · 2024Review
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Abstract
objectivesExamine the effects of a 6-month exercise intervention on neuropsychiatric symptoms, pain, and medication consumption in older people with dementia (PWD) living in nursing homes (NH).
methodsNinety-one older PWD living in NH performed a 6-month structured exercise intervention (n = 44) or a social activity intervention (n = 47). Neuropsychiatric symptoms were measured by the neuropsychiatric inventory (NPI), pain was assessed using the Algoplus scale, and dementia-related drug prescriptions were obtained for all participants.
resultsBetween-group analysis found a nonsignificant difference that could be of clinical relevance: a 4-point difference in the NPI and 1.3-point difference in the reduction of the number of medications favoring exercisers. No significant differences were found for pain, and a trend was found for an increase in medication consumption in the social group.
conclusionExercise effects did not differ from social intervention effects on neuropsychiatric symptoms, pain, and medication consumption in older PWD living in NH.
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