Cognitive impairment and declined aerobic capacity have a detrimental effect on quality of life with hindrance in carrying out activities of daily living.  Mobile phone usage is increasing in India and mobile phone users are expected to rise to 703.7 million by 2017. Mobile based cognitive training may be one of the easiest modes of training and may also be cost effective.  On the other hand, there are abundant evidence suggestive importance of aerobic exercises in older adults, not only improving the aerobic capacity but also showing positive cognitive effects.

Though there is a wide variety of mobile applications available, yet, there is scant evidence on the effectiveness of these applications on cognition in India. Whereas, there is a wide range of researches available on the effect of aerobic exercises on older adults, also many of them proving the effect of aerobic exercises on cognition. Hence the need arises for the study to see the effect of mobile application based cognitive training on cognition and quality of life in older adults and also compare the effect of aerobic exercises and mobile-based application cognitive training on cognition and quality of life in older adults.

Hypothesis:

1.      There is no difference between the effect of aerobic training and mobile application based cognitive training on level of cognition in older adults

2.      There is no difference between the effect of aerobic training and mobile application based cognitive training on Quality of life in older adults

    3. There is no difference between the effect of aerobic training and mobile application based cognitive training on aerobic capacity in older adults

        Procedure:

       Those in Group A will be made to install the mobile-based application "Lumosity" for cognitive training. The participants will be instructed in detail about ‘how to play’. All the participants will be asked to ‘play’ for 5 days a week, for eight weeks. All the individuals in group A will be trained on all possible aspects of cognition.

       Group B will be given aerobic exercise protocol for eight weeks. They will be prescribed physical exercises in the form of the moderate intensity aerobic exercises regimen of 30 minutes, 5 days a week for eight weeks as per the ACSM guidelines for older adults. At the end of eight weeks, individuals of both the groups will be assessed for cognition and quality of life.    

       The data will be analysed using the appropriate statistical tool. Level of significance will be kept at 5%.