{"id":106160,"date":"2019-03-20T04:41:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T04:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/exercise-program-provides-multiple-benefits-to-nursing-home-residents\/"},"modified":"2019-03-20T04:41:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T04:41:43","slug":"exercise-program-provides-multiple-benefits-to-nursing-home-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/exercise-program-provides-multiple-benefits-to-nursing-home-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise program provides multiple benefits to nursing home residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>In a <em>Journal of the American Geriatrics Society<\/em> study of residents at nursing homes, those who participated in a six-month program of individualized and progressive multicomponent exercise at moderate intensity experienced fewer falls than those in a control group that participated in routine activities.<\/p>\n<p>Also, after the program, there was a lower prevalence of frailty and fewer deaths in the intervention group compared with the control group.<\/p>\n<p>The intervention consisted of one-hour supervised group training sessions twice a week for a six-month period and involved individualized strength and balance exercises. Walking recommendations were also individually tailored in duration and intensity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Further research is needed to ascertain whether those who engage in this kind of individualized program ultimately die with better function and lower dependency,&#8221; the authors wrote.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><br \/>Penny Smith<br \/>newsroom@wiley.com<br \/>http:\/\/dx.<wbr>doi.<wbr>org\/<wbr>10.<wbr>1111\/<wbr>jgs.<wbr>15824 <i class=\"fa fa-sign-out\"><\/i><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Journal of the American Geriatrics Society study of residents at nursing homes, those who participated in a six-month program of individualized and progressive multicomponent exercise at moderate intensity experienced fewer falls than those in a control group that participated in routine activities. Also, after the program, there was a lower prevalence of frailty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[326,293,334,501],"class_list":["post-106160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-aging","tag-medicine-health","tag-public-health","tag-sports-medicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}