Group Recreation to Enhance Function Aging
A Community-Based Recreation Program to Improve Function and Quality of Life in Older Adults
State University of New York at Buffalo
80 participants
Sep 15, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
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
Inclusion Criteria4
- > = 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 Criteria6
- 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).
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Interventions
Weekly SMARTfit dual-task exergaming and group art-making
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NCT07050589