Maintaining Autonomy as we Age. Strategy Training for Age-related Executive Dysfunction.

Baycrest

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aging

Treatments: Behavioral: Real world strategy approach; Behavioral: Psychosocial Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01163279

REB1021

Details and patient eligibility

About

Healthy older adults with self-reported cognitive difficulties who receive strategy training will demonstrate greater performance benefits on measures of real-world activities, relative to those receiving a control intervention, immediately post treatment and at follow-up.

Enrollment: 19 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All participants must score within 1.5 standard deviation (SD) of age and education-corrected normative data for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and on a battery of neuropsychological tests of attention, memory and executive function (which will insure that participants are unlikely to meet the criteria for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)).
• No clinically relevant depression (scores ≤22) on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Self-reported complains about cognitive function

Exclusion criteria

• Recent bereavement (within last 6 months)
• History of neurological disease
• Psychiatric illness requiring hospitalization and/or history or current substance abuse

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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19 participants in 2 patient groups

Cognitive Training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Real world strategy approach

Psychosocial Education

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Psychosocial Education