老年学と老年医学の研究

概要

The Need to Find the Personal Lifestyle Factor Counteracting Cognitive Decline in Normal Aging

Petra Jansen*

In the last years, much research focuses on the possible influence of physical activity on cognitive decline. Retrospective studies with healthy older people show that long lasting physical activity may reduce the risk for this decline. Prospective studies supply, in part, results arguing in favor of the efficacy of physical activity regarding cognition. One of the first meta-analysis was the one of Colcombe and Kramer.