Relationship Between Cognitive Function and Physical Performance in Older Adults

Yoon, Ji-Yeong; Okura, Tomohiro; Tsunoda, Kenji; Tsuji, Takao; Kohda, Yoshie; Mitsuishi, Yasuhiro; Hasegawa, Chisa; Kim, Hoon

doi:10.7600/jspfsm.59.313

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“…In general, it is well known that cognitive function is closely associated with physical function. To evaluate the effectiveness of SYNAP, we measured six items of physical function, 26 which included a cognitive function, the 48‐peg moving task, 27 5‐times sit‐to‐stand, 28 a 6‐meter habitual walk, 29 timed up and go (TUG), 30 a one‐leg balance with eyes open, 31 and a grip strength 32 , 33 in the pre‐ and post‐trial. Among the participants, one or two persons did not participate the 5‐times sit‐to‐stand, the 6‐meter habitual walk, and TUG as they were wheelchair users.…”

Section: Consolidated Results and Study Designmentioning

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Cognitive and physical benefits of a game‐like dual‐task exercise among the oldest nursing home residents in Japan

Yoon

Isoda

Ueda³

et al. 2022

A&D Transl Res & Clin Interv

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Introduction Dual‐task (DT) exercise can act as a substitute, which can help improve both physical and cognitive functions. Thus, this study investigated the effects of a game‐like cognitive DT exercise called “Synapsology” (SYNAP) among the oldest residents of a nursing home. Methods Participants (aged 85–97 years) were assigned to the intervention group (n = 12) and the control group (n = 12). The intervention group underwent 60‐minute sessions, twice a week for 24 weeks. Results A comparison of the Mini‐Mental State Examination scores and six physical function tests, before and after the intervention, shows that the SYNAP had a positive impact on the cognitive and physical functions among the intervention group. Discussion These findings suggest that SYNAP may help maintain or improve cognitive and physical functions among older adults compared to no interventions. Therefore, SYNAP would act as a beneficial tool amidst a “superaging” society like Japan.

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Cognitive and physical benefits of a game‐like dual‐task exercise among the oldest nursing home residents in Japan

Yoon

Isoda

Ueda³

et al. 2022

A&D Transl Res & Clin Interv

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“…Several reports of the association between cognitive function and body mobility have been published. Niet et al 11 reported a tight association between cognitive function and lower limb function, and Yoon et al 12 reported the relationship between cognitive function and body mobility (e.g., muscular strength in the lower limbs, walking ability). Moreover, the severity of dementia depends on how independent the caregivers can be in daily life, which is similar to the Scale for Care Givers with Dementia.…”

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“…10 The Social Scale for Care Givers with Dementia, which is available throughout Japan, can be easily checked and calculated from nursing records, which is why this scale was selected. This scale can judge the state and the severity of dementia of the elderly population based on reports by Niet et al 11 and Yoon et al, 12 which indicates the tight relationship between cognitive function and body mobility based on independence in the activities in daily life. In addition, the severity of dementia depends on how independent the caregivers can be in daily life, which is similar to the Scale for Care Givers with Dementia.…”

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Treatment and prognosis of patients with both cancer and impaired decision‐patient with both cancer and dementia making as a symptom of dementia

Fujii

Wada

Hasebe

et al. 2021

Geriatrics Gerontology Int

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In our aging society, the number of patients with both cancer and dementia has recently been increasing. One of the major clinical questions is whether patients with dementia could receive appropriate cancer treatment. The purpose of this study is to know the prognosis of patients with both cancer and impaired decision-making as a symptom of dementia, and to discuss the proper cancer treatment of the patients with dementia.Methods: Patients newly diagnosed with both cancer and impaired decision-making as a symptom of dementia at Ehime University Hospital between January 2010 and December 2016 were reviewed. The data of patients with cancer were retrospectively analyzed using an electronic medical record system.Results: In total, 9354 cases were diagnosed with cancer in the Ehime University Hospital over 7 years, and only 105 (1.1%) cases with impaired decision-making as a symptom of dementia were recorded by medical professionals, probably due to poor attention to the cognitive functions of patients with cancer. Analysis of the cancer prognosis of these patients showed that a better prognosis was seen in patients with any therapeutic interventions than in those with no treatment for the cancer itself. However, the prognosis of patients was not significantly different between standard and non-standard treatments.Conclusions: This study suggests that the poor interest of medical professionals in the cognitive function of patients with cancer at the time of diagnosis of cancer and the lack of any guidelines for patients with both cancer and dementia are major problems in our aging society.

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“…In mobility, for example, gait dysfunction can predict subsequent cognitive impairment and dementia (Camicioli et al, 1998;Verghese et al, 2002;Waite et al, 2005), and healthy older adults' mobility, measured by the Timed Up and Go test (TUG; Podsiadlo and Richardson, 1991), is associated with their executive function (Herman et al, 2011;Donoghue et al, 2012), visually encoded working memory (Kawagoe and Sekiyama, 2014;Kawagoe et al, 2015), and accuracy for object-based MR of whole bodies (Jansen and Kaltner, 2014). Also, associations between dexterity, measured by a pegboard test, and general cognitive functions were reported in studies on older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia (Kluger et al, 1997;Sakamoto et al, 2007) as well as those on healthy older adults (Yoon et al, 2010). Thus, we assess dexterity and mobility as motor performance indices.…”

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Advanced aging effects on implicit motor imagery and its links to motor performance: An investigation via mental rotation of letters, hands, and feet

Muto

Suzuki

Sekiyama

2022

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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This study focuses on changes in implicit motor imagery during advanced aging and these changes’ co-occurrences with physical motor deficits. We administered a mental rotation (MR) task with letters, hands, and feet to 28 young adults (20–27 years) and to 71 older adults (60–87 years), and assessed motor skills (gait mobility and hand dexterity) and neuropsychological performance. Compared to young adults, older adults showed lower MR performance for all stimuli and stronger biomechanical constraint effects on both hand and foot rotation. Moreover, the foot biomechanical constraint effect continued to increase during late adulthood, and declines in hand and foot motor imagery emerged at earlier old ages than declines in visual imagery. These results first demonstrated distinct aging trajectories of hand motor imagery, foot motor imagery, and visual imagery. Exploratory partial correlation analysis for older adults showed positive associations of low-level perceptual-motor skills (Trail Making Test-A performance) with hand and foot MR performance and positive associations of mobility (Timed Up and Go test performance) with foot and letter MR performance. These associations exhibited somewhat different patterns from those of young adults and raised the possibility that age-related declines in motor (and visual) imagery co-occur with declines in motor functioning.

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Relationship Between Cognitive Function and Physical Performance in Older Adults

Cited by 14 publications

References 10 publications

Cognitive and physical benefits of a game‐like dual‐task exercise among the oldest nursing home residents in Japan

Cognitive and physical benefits of a game‐like dual‐task exercise among the oldest nursing home residents in Japan

Treatment and prognosis of patients with both cancer and impaired decision‐patient with both cancer and dementia making as a symptom of dementia

Advanced aging effects on implicit motor imagery and its links to motor performance: An investigation via mental rotation of letters, hands, and feet

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