ArticleFrontiers in public health2025
Brief mind-body exercise in high-latitude aging: reduced sedentarism and domain-specific cognitive/social benefits.
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Abstract
Objective: Older adults living at high southern latitudes face compounded barriers to mobility and social participation due to cold, wind, and seasonality. Visuospatial-executive functions, which support everyday tasks such as route finding, dual-task walking, and planning in older adults, are particularly vulnerable to age-related decline after the seventh decade of life. Low-dose, climate-adapted mind-body exercise (MBE), delivered once weekly in community settings, may offer a feasible way to reduce sedentary time and support cognitive and social functioning, yet evidence from sub-Antarctic settings is scarce. We tested whether a short, standardized MBE program produces preliminary changes in sedentary behavior, physical activity, cognition, and socio-affective outcomes. Materials and methods: In a pre-experimental single-group pre-post design, community-dwelling older people ( Results: Sitting time decreased ( Conclusion: A brief, indoor, regionally adapted MBE program is feasible and produces a meaningful profile of benefits, including reduced sedentarism, selective enhancement of executive-visuospatial function, and increased empathy, in older people living at high southern latitudes.
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