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Physical fitness helps attenuate age-related declines in cognitive function. Discuss. - page 12
Keywords: Physical fitness reduce age-related ageing declines cognitive function. Discuss. brain performacne
By Suzanna on 22/06/2010
Level: Bachelor Honours Degree (BA, BEng, BSc etc)
Page Number: 12 of 12 pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12to suggest that physical fitness helps attenuate age-related cognitive decline, in particular, oxygen studies. Also the meta-analysis provides support, but many of the studies are flawed, primarily due to the methods employed and secondly due to confounding variables. In addition, other research into cognitive decline in the elderly has shown that there may be more important factors such as engagement in intellectually stimulating activities that attenuate age-related cognitive decline. The most compelling element which does not support the idea that physical fitness can alter age-related are the confounding variables relating to diet, education, facilities and fundamentally money which is a likely determent of all the other factors.
Overall, I conclude that it is possible that physical fitness helps to attenuate age related cognitive decline as there is supporting evidence. However a lot of confounding variables which have not been carefully looked at. The key point is that, there is no empirical evidence, by which a cause and effect relationship is established. Essentially then, much more research needs to be done and more money needs to be funded into as the number of elderly people, is still on the rise. Furthermore, the longitudinal studies at present are not long enough to draw conclusions on what happens over a period of decades. The implications are wide as first and foremost is has an impact on the quality of life of the elderly. And secondly it has implications for professional practice.
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