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

NCT01163279 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 19

Last updated 2017-12-18

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Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Aging

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Real world strategy approach

The key features of the protocol are: i. Participants are actively engaged in selecting their treatment goals. The research clinician will work with the participants to identify five specific, measurable real-world goals using a standardized semi-structured interview, the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure. Three of these will be training goals, two will not be trained but evaluated post-intervention for evidence of generalization and transfer to non-trained tasks; ii. A global problem solving approach is used (Goal- Plan- Do- Check). Participants are guided by the trainer to apply this strategy to their goals.

BEHAVIORAL

Psychosocial Education

The active comparator uses an information-based format and is designed to engage participants without providing any specific training techniques or strategies. During weekly sessions, participants will receive factual information on brain structure and function, age-related cognitive changes, and general brain health issues and will spend time doing non-specific cognitive exercises including crossword and Sudoku puzzles. Homework will consist of reading assignments related to the session topics.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Baycrest

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Deirdre Dawson, PhD · Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-08-31
Primary Completion
2011-10-31
Completion
2011-10-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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