NCT01163279

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

Maintaining Autonomy as we Age: Investigating the Application of a Strategy Training Approach for Ameliorating the Effects of Age-related Executive Dysfunction - Part II

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 19 (actual)
• Sponsor: Baycrest · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-08-01
• Primary completion: 2011-10-01
• Completion: 2011-10-01
• First posted: 2010-07-15
• Last updated: 2017-12-18
• Results posted: 2017-01-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada