NCT04195230

Cognitive Multi-Tasking Training in Healthy Older Adults

Cognitive Training in a Multi-task Daily Life Task: a Feasibility Study in Healthy Older Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: Columbia University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluated the feasibility of a remote web-based ecological cognitive training protocol to healthy older adults. The training protocol involves 5 training sessions.

Detailed description

Previous research demonstrated the relevance in training cognitive abilities that typically decline with age, such as those associated with executive control (e.g., abstract thinking, selective and divided attention, planning, task-switching and inhibitory control). The aim of the present study is to investigate the feasibility of a web-based cognitive training focused on executive control to cognitively healthy older adults. The participants will undergo the web-training in a daily type situation of meal preparation (i.e., Breakfast Game). The training protocol combines the tasks of table setting and cooking in a multi-tasking fashion. In some sessions Emphasis Change approach will be apply to the training, in order to assess it feasibility and potential effects in optimizing the performance. In addition, participants will undergo a brief web-based cognitive evaluation before and after training. If feasible, the investigators protocol will allow training older adults in critical cognitive skills for daily life situations. The web-based training is an advancement since it can be delivered at-home, remotely supervised, and is easily scalable. Recently, remote interventions have been particularly relevant to older adults due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which may limit in-person research participation.

Conditions

• Age-related Cognitive Decline

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Multi-tasking Training	Participants will undergo training protocol where they will have, concomitantly, to cook different meals and set the table under different instructions, rules and difficulty level.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-02
• Primary completion: 2021-11-05
• Completion: 2021-11-05
• First posted: 2019-12-11
• Last updated: 2022-02-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States