Remediating Age Related Cognitive Decline: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Exercise
Description: PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The world is graying, and the vast majority of older adults will have declines in cognitive function, interfering with function, quality of life, and engagement in valued activities. We will test two promising interventions - Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Exercise - for their ability to remediate age-related cognitive decline. MBSR and exercise are both inexpensive, well-tolerated, safe, and highly scalable interventions; therefore i our project can demonstrate how effective they are, for whom, and by what mechanisms, in the near term older adults could receive lifestyle strategies that would benefit their brain and cognitive functioning, staving off disability and dependence on others and maintaining engagement in life's most valued activities.
Funder: National Institute on Aging
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R01
Start date: 2014-09-30
End date: 2021-05-31
Investigator: ERIC J LENZE
Institution: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Funded outputs count: 20
Funder award ID: R01AG049369
OpenAlex ID: G2023140567