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The impact of daily exercise on the mobility, balance and urine control of cognitively impaired nursing home residents

Int J Nurs Stud. 1991;28(2):145-51. doi: 10.1016/0020-7489(91)90004-m.

Abstract

The purpose of this intervention study was to examine the impact of a daily exercise regimen on the mobility, balance, and urine control of a sample of cognitively impaired elderly nursing home residents. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design was used with 15 elderly, cognitively impaired, incontinent nursing home residents. Data were collected regarding walking distance, speed of walking, balance ability, ability to rise from a chair unassisted, ability to walk unassisted, and incidence of urinary incontinence before and after a month of daily assisted walking. Subjects were able to walk significantly greater distances before tiring after the exercise regimen. In addition, the incidence of urinary incontinence was significantly decreased.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Cognition Disorders / complications*
  • Exercise* / physiology
  • Female
  • Homes for the Aged*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Nursing Homes*
  • Postural Balance*
  • Time Factors
  • Urinary Incontinence / complications
  • Urinary Incontinence / nursing
  • Urinary Incontinence / prevention & control*
  • Walking*