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Identifier	Thesis 1829
Author	Fellows, Robert
Title	Effects of Two Cognitive Training Programs on Healthy Older Adults and Individuals with Dementia
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2005
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The purpose of these two studies was to investigate the potential of cognitive training to reduce cognitive decline in healthy older adults and individuals with dementia. The first study included thirty older adults without dementia who were assessed with a neuropsychological battery and subsequently entered into a 12-week group-based cognitive training program. Study 2 included six older adults with moderate to severe dementia living in a secured memory impairment unit in an assisted living community. These individuals were assessed with a similar battery and participated in a six-week combined interactive group-based and individual computer-based cognitive training program. Study 1 revealed that older adults without dementia improved on measures of overall cognitive functioning, including short-term memory, new learning, and skills related to visual motor tracking, divided attention and cognitive flexibility, conceptual and visual tracking which appeared to generalize to improved activities of daily living. Study 2 showed that older adults with moderate to severe dementia in the training program improved on measures of overall cognitive functioning including short-term memory, cognitive failures, and on a caregiver report of socialization and behavior. Also, these individuals did not demonstrate any significant decline on any of the measures from pre-test to post-test. These two preliminary studies indicate that cognitive training may effectively reduce decline and even improve some cognitive and behavioral functions in older adults with and without dementia.
Subject	Dementia
Department	Department of Psychology
Advisor	Mate-Kole, C. Charles
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734309
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