© 2004 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., Royal College of Psychiatrists, & British Psychological Society
Therapeutics
Regular exercise and behavioural management by caregivers improves physical and mental health of people with Alzheimer’s disease
Teri L, Gibbons LE, McCurry SM, et al. Exercise plus behavioral management in patients with Alzheimer disease. JAMA 2003;290:2015–22.
Q Does an exercise programme for people with Alzheimer’s disease, plus behavioural management by a trained family member, improve mental and physical health compared with routine care?
Key Words: exercise • Alzheimer’s disease
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
Design:
Randomised controlled trial.
Allocation:
Concealed.
Blinding:
Assessors blinded to treatment.
Follow up period:
Twenty four months.
Setting:
Seattle, USA; June 1994 to April 1999.
Patients:
153 people (mean age 78 years, range 55–93 years; 59% male) with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease, living in the community, with a caregiver willing to participate in the study.
Intervention:
Three month exercise programme or usual care. The exercise programme consisted of 12 one hour sessions conducted at the participant’s home, by a healthcare professional, with the aim of promoting at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise per day. In addition, caregivers were educated about dementia, trained to recognise and resolve behavioural problems, and encouraged to increase social and physical activities. Usual care included short term medical treatment and crisis management intervention by healthcare professionals or community services.
Outcomes:
Physical health and function (SF-36, Sickness Impact Profile (SIP)); affective status (Cornell Scale for
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- Web extra
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in this journal
- Similar articles in PubMed
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
-
Epidemiology
-
Clinical trials (epidemiology)
-
Neurology
-
Dementia, Alzheimer's type
- Psychiatry of old age
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
