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During routine primary care visits, aging patients often express concern about declining cognition and poor memory. Modest evidence suggests that exercise and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) might have favorable effects on cognition and memory. Hence, researchers designed this trial that involved 585 older people (age, ≥65; mean age, 72) who said that “they or others had noticed trouble with their memory or concentration”; none had dementia on a standardized screening test. Participants likely ranged from people with normal, mild, age-related forgetfulness to those who would satisfy formal criteria for diagnosis of “mild cognitive impairment.”
Participants were randomized to receive MBSR, an aerobic and strength exercise program, b…