ArticleAlzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)2020
COVID-19, physical (in-)activity, and dementia prevention.
Article in Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Changes in Selected Cognitive and Motor Skills as Well as the Quality of Life After a 24-Week Multidimensional Music-Based Exercise Program in People With Dementia.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementiasTrial
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- ACTIVA-Senior: Study Design and Protocol for a Preliminary Multidomain Outdoor Intervention Promoting Healthy Aging and Mitigating Psycho-Physiological Decline.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Does acute aerobic exercise enhance selective attention, working memory, and problem-solving abilities in Alzheimer's patients? A sex-based comparative study.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Preventive Strategies for Cognitive Decline and Dementia: Benefits of Aerobic Physical Activity, Especially Open-Skill Exercise.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Older adults' perspectives towards optimizing lifestyle behaviors and strategies to support healthy brain ageing during COVID-19 restrictions.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- Age-related cognitive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and associated mental health changes in Germans.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Examining Lifestyle Components in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients, Iran 2021.Journal of lifestyle medicine · 2022Article
- New Recovery Strategies in Motor and Cognitive Functions, before, during and after Home-Confinement COVID-19, for Healthy Adults and Patients with Neurodegenerative Diseases: Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
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- Globally altered sleep patterns and physical activity levels by confinement in 5056 individuals: ECLB COVID-19 international online survey.Biology of sport · 2021Article
- Four Weeks of Detraining Induced by COVID-19 Reverse Cardiac Improvements from Eight Weeks of Fitness-Dance Training in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- COVID-19 and Alzheimer's disease: how one crisis worsens the other.Translational neurodegeneration · 2021Review
- COVID-19, physical (in-)activity, and dementia prevention.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) · 2020Article
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6 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Physical inactivity is one major modifiable risk factor for dementia (especially Alzheimer's disease). Due to contact restrictions and isolation measures in response to the current COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, physical inactivity levels have increased by up to 30%, which will likely have adverse consequences for primary and secondary dementia prevention. Therefore, new interdisciplinary prevention approaches (eg, outdoor exercise; app-based exercise with online partners) are urgently needed that account for the suspected long-term lifestyle changes that the current-and upcoming-pandemics are likely to entail (increased use of home office, social isolation, avoidance of fitness centers and club sports, and so on).
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