Exercise plays a key role in healthy aging by promoting both physical and cognitive function.
Physical function and cognitive function appear to be interrelated and may share common …

Objective To determine whether, and to what extent, fall prevention exercise interventions for
older community dwelling people are effective in preventing different types of fall related …

Objectives To determine whether a lifestyle integrated approach to balance and strength
training is effective in reducing the rate of falls in older, high risk people living at home …

The field of cognitive neuroscience was transformed by the discovery that exercise induces
neurogenesis in the adult brain, with the potential to improve brain health and stave off the …

Background: Older people with cognitive impairment are at increased risk of falls; however,
fall prevention strategies have limited success in this population. The aim of this paper is to …

The ease with which we avoid falling down belies a highly sophisticated and distributed
neural network for controlling reactions to maintain upright balance. Although historically …

Over the past 10 years, researchers have studied the effects of recreational football training
as a health-promoting activity for participants across the lifespan. This has important public …

Maintaining and increasing walking speed in old age is clinically important because this
activity of daily living predicts functional and clinical state. We reviewed evidence for the …

Background: in a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial, we investigated
whether 6 months of music-based multitask training had beneficial effects on cognitive …

Objective: The objective of the study is to identify the intrinsic, psychosocial and lifestyle
factors, which, over time, predict the incidence of having a fall requiring medical attention …