Background and purpose: Regular exercise has very important effects in increasing memory and preventing forgetfulness, especially in elderly people with Alzheimer's disease. Overall, regular exercise in older adults has many benefits, including increased fitness and cardiovascular health, reduced rates of falls and fractures, and increased overall health and exercise confidence that slows the progression of Alzheimer's-related physical disabilities. will be Self-confidence is the result of a person's expectations about his performance and evaluation of his abilities in everyday challenges. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of ping-pong exercise in reducing the rate of Alzheimer's and improving self-confidence in the elderly of Kerman.
Research method: The research method of this project was a semi-experimental type and a pre-test-post-test design with an experimental group and a control group. A number of 50 elderly people were selected by simple random sampling from among the elderly over 60 years old in Kerman care centers and were randomly and equally divided into two experimental groups (25 people) and the control group (25 people). Behavioral problems questionnaires for Alzheimer's patients (MBPC) and self-confidence questionnaire (PEI) were used to collect data. The experimental group underwent 12 sessions of group training for 2 hours of playing ping-pong, and the control group did not receive any training. Then, the amount of Alzheimer's behavioral problems and the level of self-confidence in the experimental group were measured in the post-test and the data were analyzed using multivariate covariance analysis using SPSS24 software.
Findings: The results showed that teaching and playing ping pong can significantly reduce the incidence and progression of Alzheimer's disease in the elderly and increase their self-confidence significantly (P<0.01). The results of this research suggest evidence that training and playing games with mobility and concentration such as ping-pong are a suitable solution for reducing Alzheimer's and improving self-confidence in the elderly. The findings of this research can be used in order to reduce the incidence and progress of Alzheimer's in the elderly and to improve the self-confidence level of the elderly by using and encouraging them to do sports with high mobility and concentration, and the results of this research show the high effectiveness of ping-pong exercise. He showed Pong.
Conclusion: From the results of this research, in order to plan the care centers for the elderly, the relevant institutions related to them in order to perform sports activities with high concentration mobility in order to reduce Alzheimer's disease, which has a high prevalence among the elderly in our society. can be used