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Dual-task Training in Older Adults

NCT05296551 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3

Last updated 2024-05-10

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Summary

This study seeks to understand what factors influence the capacity to perform simultaneous motor and cognitive tasks in older adults to improve movement throughout their community with the least risk of injury. To function in the real world, one needs to "walk and talk", or to move about the community while attending to their environment. Navigating a busy environment becomes increasingly difficult due to the multitude of constraints placed on the organism by both the brain and the body that are associated with aging. Resulting lack of movement causes a downward spiral; further decreasing function and increasing risk of co-morbidities. This will impose an enormous cost on our healthcare system as the elderly population continues to grow in the United States. The investigators aim to investigate both cognitive and movement changes during aging to prevent declines in functional mobility. The investigators will do this through eight weeks training of simultaneous cognitive and motor tasks (cognitive-motor training).

Conditions

  • Healthy Aging

Interventions

OTHER

Motor Task

A visuomotor task is presented where an individual must match their knee to an ellipse that moves up and down on a screen, resulting in a marching-in-place motion at a specified frequency.

OTHER

Cognitive-motor dual-task

While performing the "Motor Task" intervention, letters of different colors and orientation randomly appear one at a time on the screen. During the Cognitive-motor dual-task, individuals are instructed to count the number of times that either 1 (simple cognitive task), or 2 (complex cognitive task) characters appear on the screen during the motor task.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • George Washington University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Keith Cole, DPT, Ph. D. · The George Washington University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Max Age
95 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-03-03
Primary Completion
2024-05-05
Completion
2024-05-05

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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