Effects of Thai Dance With Twenty-five Squares in Elderly With Mild Cognitive Impairment

Inclusion Criteria:

• Elderly males and females aged 60-79 years who can lead normal daily lives.Individuals with mild cognitive impairment identified through the Montreal CognitiveAssessment (MoCA) with a score in the range of 17 - 25.

• Must be able to listen, speak, read, write, and understand the Thai language.

• Should not have diseases or abnormalities such as heart disease, eye complicationscaused by diabetes, uncontrolled high blood pressure, kidney complications caused bydiabetes, and stroke.

• Must not have other respiratory diseases such as tuberculosis (Tuberculosis), asthma (Asthma), lung cancer (Lung cancer), emphysema (Emphysema), chronic obstructivepulmonary disease (COPD), etc.

• Must be a person not at risk of falling, determined through a test of the ability towalk and turn 3 meters within a time period of 7 - 15 seconds.

• Must not have received medication to treat dementia.

• Should not have received exercise training for more than 20 minutes at a time, 3days/week, or more in the past 6 months before participating in the research.

• Should not have symptoms of mental disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolardisorder, or depression.

• Should have passed the pre-exercise readiness assessment (PAR-Q).

• Must be willing to participate in the research and sign the consent form to takepart in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• A force majeure event, such as illness, that prevents participation in the research.

• Participation in less than 80% of the research sessions (must participate 29 timesout of 36 times).

• Unwillingness to continue participating in the research.