Ten-Year Effects of the ACTIVE Cognitive Training Trial on Cognition and Everyday Functioning in Older Adults
Rebok and colleagues report the ten-year follow-up of a randomised, single-blind trial that compared three cognitive training programmes, for memory, reasoning and speed of processing, with a no-contact control group among community-dwelling older adults. All three trained groups later reported less difficulty with everyday instrumental tasks than the controls, and more trained participants than controls were still at or above their baseline level of function in their early eighties. Reasoning and speed training produced lasting gains in the abilities they targeted, while the memory training gains faded, and booster sessions added durable improvement for reasoning and speed.
Rebok and colleagues report the ten-year follow-up of a randomised, single-blind trial that compared three cognitive training programmes, for memory, reasoning and speed of processing, with a no-contact control group among community-dwelling older adults. All three trained groups later reported less difficulty with everyday instrumental tasks than the controls, and more trained participants than controls were still at or above their baseline level of function in their early eighties. Reasoning and speed training produced lasting gains in the abilities they targeted, while the memory training gains faded, and booster sessions added durable improvement for reasoning and speed.
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Rebok, G. W., et al. (2014). 'Ten-Year Effects of the ACTIVE Cognitive Training Trial on Cognition and Everyday Functioning in Older Adults.' Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 62(1)