Exercise programs for people with dementia (review) (2015)

This is an update of a previous 2013 review. Several recent trials and systematic reviews of the impact of exercise on people with dementia are reporting promising findings.

Primary objective: Do exercise programs for older people with dementia improve their cognition, activities of daily living (ADLs), neuropsychiatric symptoms, depression, and mortality?

Secondary objectives: Do exercise programs for older people with dementia have an indirect impact on family caregivers’ burden, quality of life, and mortality?
Do exercise programs for older people with dementia reduce the use of healthcare services (e.g. visits to the emergency department) by participants and their family caregivers?