A 30-minute exercise session can decrease anxiety, depression, and hostility scores, and improve attention task performance in older adults.

“Irrespective of your age, everybody got a decreased anxiety and depression and hostility score, which is very important. So it's not just decreasing your anxiety and depression but decreasing your hostility levels. [...] And what we found is in the older population, even more than in the younger population, we saw improved performance on both Stroop and Eriksen flanker task, which is another task dependent on really focusing in on different letters and paying attention to what letter is being shown.”