NCT03190460

Evaluating Technology-Based Fall Prevention Interventions

Influence of Cognitive Training on Fall Prevention in At Risk Older Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Washington · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 89 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Approximately one in three older adults fall annually and it is the primary cause of traumatic injury in older adults. While exercise and balance programs have been shown to be effective in reducing fall risk, maintaining behavior change is known to be difficult. Thus additional interventions need to be validated to add to our current armamentarium to reduce falls in older adults. Cognitive training (CT) involves exercises that target specific cognitive tasks, such as memory or processing speed. It has been speculated that routinely performing such tasks may increase functional ability. Recent work has pointed to an increased risk of falls in community-dwelling older adults who have alterations in specific cognitive tasks. Thus the purpose of the proposed study is to demonstrate the feasibility and to explore the effectiveness of a 16 week CT intervention to reduce risk and incidence of fall and improve outcomes up to 1 month post-intervention in a group of community dwelling older adults at risk for fall.

Conditions

• Falls (Accidents) in Old Age

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Cognitive Training	Web-based cognitive training intervention targeting specific cognitive tasks. Subjects complete 3 training sessions per week with at least 24 hours in between sessions.
OTHER	Technology-based Education	Subjects complete 16 web-based educational modules on healthy aging content. Following each module, subjects complete a learning reflection.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-02-15
• Primary completion: 2019-01-31
• Completion: 2019-02-28
• First posted: 2017-06-16
• Last updated: 2022-06-07
• Results posted: 2021-01-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States