Weight Training May Delay Onset of Dementia

A recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that older women with mild cognitive impairment can improve their executive function, associative memory, and other cognitive parameters within 6 months by a twice weekly resistance training routine.  This study found resistance training to be more effective than aerobic training, and far more effective than a balance and tone training class. Of interest is that that aerobic training improved balance better than the balance training. Other studies have found aerobic exercise to also help with cognitive function.