1st Newsletter - January 2022 - hAlt Project

The first part of hAlt’s IO1 was to conduct a review with up-to-date literature on the effects of physical activity on people with dementia as well as barriers, motivators, and facilitators. This review has now been completed and provided a brief overview of dementia and its prevalence in Europe, the effect of physical activity on the physical and cognitive aspects of people with dementia, barriers, facilitators and motivators for physical activity in people with dementia and their caregivers. Further, it examined the limited evidence existing in the table tennis and neurodegenerative diseases as well as the possible benefits it would have. The completion of the reviews indicates the completion of this part of the aim – the team will now look into possible submissions for publication.