Preventing Cognitive and Functional Decline Among Seniors at Risk

Baycrest

Status

Completed

Conditions

Subjective Cognitive Decline

Treatments

Behavioral: Real World Strategy Training

Behavioral: Psychosocial Education

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03495037

REB1738

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the efficacy of Real-World Strategy Training (RWST) compared to a psycho-education workshop for improving everyday life performance in older adults with subjective cognitive decline (SCD). Participants will be randomly assigned to receive one of these approaches.

Full description

Evidence suggests that 25-50% of community-dwelling older adults report SCD and that these individuals have an elevated risk for developing Mild Cognitive Impairment and/or dementia. Many of these individuals report difficulties with complex activities of daily living.

RWST aims to reduce these difficulties in everyday life by providing a meta-cognitive training approach that compensates for age-related executive changes. The approach is provided within the context of individually identified everyday-life difficulties.

The psycho-education approach is a Brain-Health Workshop supplemented by intellectually stimulating activities such as doing Sudoku and/or word searches. This approach provides information people may use to inform health behaviour changes.

Enrollment

232 patients

Sex

All

Ages

60 to 85 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Have subjective cognitive complaints
Be fluent in written and spoken English
Able to self-identify areas of their everyday lives in which they would like to improve.

Exclusion criteria

Diagnosis of neurological conditions (e.g. dementia, mild cognitive impairment, Parkinson's)
Presence of severe depression
Presence of substance abuse
History of hospitalization for psychiatric reasons