4Active Intervention for Promoting Physical Activity and Cognitive Flexibility Among Older Adults
Abstract
(ISSN 2638-1311)
OBM Geriatrics is an Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. The journal takes the premise that innovative approaches – including gene therapy, cell therapy, and epigenetic modulation – will result in clinical interventions that alter the fundamental pathology and the clinical course of age-related human diseases. We will give strong preference to papers that emphasize an alteration (or a potential alteration) in the fundamental disease course of Alzheimer’s disease, vascular aging diseases, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, skin aging, immune senescence, and other age-related diseases.
Geriatric medicine is now entering a unique point in history, where the focus will no longer be on palliative, ameliorative, or social aspects of care for age-related disease, but will be capable of stopping, preventing, and reversing major disease constellations that have heretofore been entirely resistant to interventions based on “small molecular” pharmacological approaches. With the changing emphasis from genetic to epigenetic understandings of pathology (including telomere biology), with the use of gene delivery systems (including viral delivery systems), and with the use of cell-based therapies (including stem cell therapies), a fatalistic view of age-related disease is no longer a reasonable clinical default nor an appropriate clinical research paradigm.
Precedence will be given to papers describing fundamental interventions, including interventions that affect cell senescence, patterns of gene expression, telomere biology, stem cell biology, and other innovative, 21st century interventions, especially if the focus is on clinical applications, ongoing clinical trials, or animal trials preparatory to phase 1 human clinical trials.
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Special Issue
Physical Activity Interventions: Effects on Physical Health, Cognition, and Psychological Well-Being Among Older Adults
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2023 (Open) Submit Now
Guest Editor
Weiyun Chen, PhD, Associate Professor
School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109
Research Interests: Physical activity interventions; Cognitive functions; Physical activity behaviors; Physical fitness; Mental health and psychological well-being; Mixed-methods evaluation; Implementation outcomes evaluation
About This Topic
Regular physical activity is essential to improving and maintaining physical health, cognitive functions, and psychological well-being for older adults aged 65 and older. 2018 Physical Activity (PA) Guidelines recommend that older adults participate in at least 150 minutes of moderate PA per week. This should include aerobic endurance, muscle strength/endurance, flexibility, and balance exercises. Unfortunately, an objective measure of PA shows that <3% of older adults meet the recommended weekly minutes of PA. Thus, there is an urgent need for developing and implementing innovative intervention approaches to promoting and sustaining physical activity behaviors that contributing to improve physical health, cognition, and psychological well-being among older adults.
To help address the critical issue, this Special Issue is to call for original research articles and review articles that investigate effects of physical activity interventions on physical health, cognition, and psychological well-being among older adults.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
Publication
4Active Intervention for Promoting Physical Activity and Cognitive Flexibility Among Older AdultsAbstract Physical activity is essential to delaying cognitive decline and preventing cognitive impairment in older adults. We designed and implemented two-level 4Active intervention for older adults living in retirement communities. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the 4Active intervention in increasing [...] |
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