A Digital Active Aging Training Program for Older Adults

Summary

The proposed project aims to develop and validate a multi-dimensional digital active aging program integrated with resilience to promote the biopsychosocial functions of older adults aged 60, including Chinese older immigrants in Canada (Study 1) and English-speaking White Canadian older adults (Study 2).

The proposed study takes a typical pretest-training-posttest design. Pretest and posttest: a battery of outcome measures on physical, psychological, and social functions will be administered to all participants. Data will also be used to identify sociodemographic risk predictors for outcome variables (i.e., biopsychosocial functions and resilience). Training: the participants will be randomly assigned to three arms to receive 4 weeks of 16 training/practice/control treatment sessions delivered via Zoom.

In the "active aging with resilience (AR)" condition, participants will complete physical, cognitive, and social engagement training modules, starting with a 30-min resilience-building module. The traditional "active aging" (AA) training involves the same multi-domain active aging training without the initial resilience-building module. The "workshop training" (WT) control condition involves workshops following the same 4-week schedule on aging-related topics.

Conditions

• Healthy Aging
• Cognitive Change
• Psychological Stress
• Loneliness
• Social Interaction

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Resilience training

Receive mini course on what is resilience and how to use different exercises to be more resilient in life.

BEHAVIORAL

cognitive training

Play games that trains attention, memory and planning using the services provided by CogniFit.

BEHAVIORAL

physical exercise

Engage in age-appropriate physical exercises.

BEHAVIORAL

social interaction

Engage in social discussion with peers in the group.

BEHAVIORAL

workshop series

Watch a series of workshops targeting the older adult population.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

  collaborator OTHER

• AGE-WELL and the Canadian Frailty Network

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Cogniciti

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Cognifit

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Aging in Cloud

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Toronto Metropolitan University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Lixia Yang, PhD · Toronto Metropolitan University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-04-08

Primary Completion

2024-10-30

Completion

2024-12-31

Countries

• Canada

Study Locations