NCT03401775

Evaluation of the Effects of the New Program for Cognitive Enhancement and Improvement in the Elderly

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Samsung Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of cognitive rehabilitation program on the improvement of cognitive functions in normal elderly subjects.

Detailed description

The cognitive rehabilitation program was developed to improve cognitive functions of the elderly or patients with cognitive impairments. The study will enroll 40 healthy subjects with a normal cognitive function between 55 and 85 years of age. Forty subjects will be randomly assigned into two groups. Subjects in the intervention group will receive four weeks of cognitive rehabilitation training, three times per week and 30 minutes per day. The control group will not receive any intervention. The investigator will measure their cognitive and brain functions three times at pre-intervention, post-intervention and four weeks after intervention to assess the effectiveness of the cognitive training program.

Conditions

• Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Cognitive rehabilitation program	Cognitive rehabilitation programs have been developed to improve the cognitive functions of the elderly or patients with cognitive impairments. The program includes sub-categories such as attention, working memory, memory and executive functions with various levels of difficulty.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-12-23
• Primary completion: 2016-12-15
• Completion: 2016-12-15
• First posted: 2018-01-17
• Last updated: 2018-01-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea