Background: Aging process can increase the risk of the declining of cognitive function that can lead to conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease and other kinds of dementia are more common in elderly women than elderly men. The declining of cognitive function can be delayed or prevented by lifestyle intervention, including physical activity. Women have lesser physical activity then men, with the prominent activity is home maintenance task.
Aims: To know whether daily physical activity can affect cognitive function in elderly women.
Methods: This research is using secondary data from the previous studies in Kelurahan Kalianya. Another data used was collected using cross-sectional method in Kelurahan Cideng, Central Jakarta. Total respondents used in this study are 134 people.
Results: The result of this study is that there is a significant association between physical activity and cognitive function in elderly women, with significance level of 0,001 and odds ratio of 0,267. And out nine physical activity that were evaluated, five of them found having significant correlation with cognitive function. Those activities are taking care of child (p=0,005 ; OR 2,910), cooking (p=0,000 ; OR=5,164), shopping (p=0,006 ; OR=2,910), ironing (p=0,005 OR=2,274), and washing dishes (p=0,045 ; OR=2,833).
Discussion: There is a significant association between daily physical activity and cognitive function in elderly women. |