Bingocize: A Novel Mobile Application for Older Adult Health (Bingocize)

Bingocize: A Novel Mobile Application to Help Maintain or Improve Older Adults' Health, Function, and Cognition

This study tests the effectiveness of using a new mobile application (Bingocize®) to improve older adults' (a) adherence to an engaging exercise program, and (b) aspects of functional performance, health knowledge, dietary habits, and cognition.

Health-promoting interventions designed to improve physical and mental fitness can help reduce health care costs; they can also help maintain, or even improve, older adults' quality of life. However, getting older adults to adhere to health-promoting exercise interventions remains difficult because such programs are often perceived as being time-consuming, painful, or unenjoyable. The present study's objective is to investigate the effectiveness of a novel technological exercise intervention program for older adults (Bingocize); in doing so, the program has the potential to improve older adults' independence and quality of life. Older adults will participate in a pre/post-intervention design with random assignment to either the experimental or one of three comparison/control groups; each group will play Bingocize in a social setting with other older adults. Participants in the experimental group will use the app to engage in twice-weekly Bingocize sessions for twelve weeks (i.e., Bingo+Exercise+Health Education); control groups will also use the app for twelve weeks but for either health education-only, exercise-only, or bingo-only.

Activities of Daily Living, Accidental Fall, Sarcopenia, Arteriosclerosis, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Hypertension, Cognitive Decline, Executive Function, Cognitive Aging

In each wave of the study (14 weeks per wave), participant groups are randomly assigned to one of four conditions (A,B,C,D). Condition A receives exercise + health education. Condition B receives exercise only. Condition C receives health education only. Condition D receives nothing.

Socially-Based Exercise Intervention for Older Adults. Participants use the Bingocize app incorporating exercises AND health information on fall risks + diet/nutrition.

Socially-Based Exercise Intervention for Older Adults. Participants use the Bingocize app incorporating exercises ONLY.

Socially-Based Exercise Intervention for Older Adults. Participants use the Bingocize app incorporating health information on fall risks + diet/nutrition ONLY.

A socially-based app that incorporates exercise and/or health education into a format familiar and engaging to older adults, designed to improve adherence to health-promoting behaviors

Multiple-choice questions covering: recognition of health terms, weight management, proper diet, bone health, environmental fall risks, careful movement

Self-report scale assessing confidence in activities that may be perceived as having risk for falling

Inclusion Criteria: Normal or corrected normal vision Mobility (i.e., not wheelchair bound) English is native language Minimum physical standards (e.g., ability to walk at least 10 meters) No structured physical activity programs >150 minutes/week in last 6 months Exclusion Criteria: Severe neurological impairments (e.g., Parkinson's) Colorblindness Dementia

De-identified individual participant data for all primary and secondary outcome measures will be made available.

Data will be available within 6 months after publication, and will remain available for a period of at least 3 years following completion of the clinical trial.

Investigators whose proposed use of the data has been approved by the Principal Investigators of the clinical trial.