NCT07050589NARecruitingAccepts Healthy Volunteers
Group Recreation to Enhance Function Aging
State University of New York at Buffalo
Start Date
9/15/2025
Completion Date
7/15/2026
Summary
Investigators will develop and deliver a community-based recreation program, delivering group artmaking and group SMARTfit dual-task exergaming to community-dwelling older adults. The program will be delivered through the Buffalo-Niagara YMCA. Outcomes of interest are change in cognitive function and change in physical functioning, inresponse to 24 weeks of weekly training.
Eligibility Criteria
Age Range: 60 years to No maximum
Inclusion Criteria
* \> = 60 years of age
* have no more than MCI (MoCA score ≥ 24 points)
* have no contraindications to exercise, guided by the American College of Sports Medicine
* fluent in English
Exclusion Criteria
* have a condition that would prevent safe participation in the exercise, as determined by the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Older Adults (PAR-OA);
* have severe neurological disease
* have severe psychiatric illness
* have a likelihood of withdrawing from the study due to severe illness or a life expectancy of \< 6 mo
* have experienced a lower or upper limb amputation
* have greater than mild cognitive impairment (MoCA score \< 24 points).
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL
Exercise and art
Conditions
Physical FunctioningCognitive Functioning
Locations
Buffalo-Niagara YMCA
Buffalo, New York 14223
United States