International Ballroom Dancing Against Neurodegeneration: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Greek Community-Dwelling Elders With Mild Cognitive impairment

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 489-499

  Lazarou, Ioulietta ^a   Parastatidis, Themis ^b   Tsolaki, Anthoula ^a,b   Gkioka, Mara ^a   Karakostas, Anastasios ^a,c   Douka, Stella ^a   Tsolaki, Magda ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Greek Association of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders   (Greece)

^c Information Technologies Institute   (Greece)

Author keywords

elderly; Greek population; International Ballroom Dancing; mild cognitive impairment; randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGED; AGING; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BALLROOM DANCING; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANCING; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREEK (PEOPLE); HEALTHY LIFESTYLE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RIVERMEAD BEHAVIORAL MEMORY TEST; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DANCE THERAPY; GREECE; INDEPENDENT LIVING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; DANCE THERAPY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 85032925571     PISSN: 15333175     EISSN: 19382731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1533317517725813     Document Type: Article

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