Exercise against dementia – with the InCoPE-App
Providing innovative and practical support in everyday care.
Ongoing project - open for funding
InCoPE (Individualized Cognitive and Physical Exercise) is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating individualized exercise programs for people with dementia. Supporting the InCoPE-App enables you to help integrate innovative physical activity programs into the care of people with dementia.
This is what it's all about
Exercise is medicine – especially for dementia
Physical activity is a promising, non-pharmacological approach to treating dementia. Studies show that physical activity improves cognitive and physical performance, mobility, and quality of life, as well as the ability to perform everyday activities. It is particularly important to promote physical activity in care facilities, where residents spend up to 90% of their day sitting. Digital solutions like the InCoPE-App can create new opportunities here – provided they are easily accessible, practical, and sustainable. This is precisely our goal.
What we want to achieve
Following the successful completion of an 18-week pilot phase in six care facilities, which received consistently positive feedback from nursing staff and showed initial promising effects among participants, the focus is now on the next phase:
- Improvements in cognitive and physical abilities
- Maintenance and promotion of the performance of activities of daily living (ADL
- Relief for nursing staff
- Acceptance and feasibility in everyday nursing care
- Optimize usability
- Better address the requirements of everyday nursing care
- Create a basis for dissemination in everyday practice through even greater acceptance
Facts and figures
2 years
Funding required:
€240,000
Project responsibility KIT:
Prof. Dr. Alexander Woll, PD Dr. Bettina Barisch-Fritz (Institute of Sports and Sports Science (IfSS))
'The InCoPE-App was the last piece of the puzzle I needed for my exercise promotion program.'
- Nurse, Walldorf -
