Recruitment and Screening Methods in Alzheimer’s Disease Research: The FIT-AD Trial | Zendy

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Recruitment and Screening Methods in Alzheimer’s Disease Research: The FIT-AD Trial

Author(s) -

Susan Greimel,

Jean F. Wyman,

Lin Zhang,

Fang Yu

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

the journals of gerontology series a

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1758-535X

pISSN - 1079-5006

DOI - 10.1093/gerona/glab092

Subject(s) - disease , alzheimer's disease , gerontology , psychology , medicine

Recruiting older adults with Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia into clinical trials is challenging requiring multiple approaches. We describe recruitment and screening processes and results from the Functional Improvement from Aerobic Training in Alzheimer's Disease study (FIT-AD Trial), a single-site, pilot randomized controlled trial testing the effects of a 6-month aerobic exercise intervention on cognition and hippocampal volume in community-dwelling older adults with mild-to-moderate AD dementia.

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