Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 11:14 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 11:14 PM
NCT ID:
NCT05932069
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* The investigators will recruit Veterans with a diagnosis of intermediate stage AMD in at least one eye, aged 65-89, willing and able to cooperate with assessments and interventions.
* Eligible participants will be quantified \> 26 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) to meet the criteria for cognitively intact.
* Participants will be free from diseases affecting cognition or ability to engage in aerobic exercise (including but not limited to chronic heart, liver, or kidney disease) and from diseases/injuries directly affecting brain functions (including but not limited to significant closed head injury, open intracranial wounds, stroke, epilepsy, degenerative diseases of the nervous system).
* Eligible participants will be required to have stable internet access in their home.
* All subjects will speak English as a primary language and will have graduated high school so that behavioral/cognitive measures reflect effects of age, AMD, and/or aerobic exercise and not the effects of familiarity with English or lack of education.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Other, non-AMD, visual impairments. Potential participants with major psychiatric disorder (including but not limited to psychosis, major depression, bipolar disorder) by history will be excluded as well as individuals with current alcohol or substance use disorder.
* Additionally, individuals with cardiovascular disease and or history of myocardial infarction will not be included.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
65 Years
Maximum Age:
89 Years
Study:
NCT05932069
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT05932069