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Impact of a Cognitive Intervention Enriched With Leisure Activities in Persons With Subjective Cognitive Decline
Sponsor: Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal
Summary
The team "Cognitive intervention, cognitive reserve and brain plasticity", Team 10, is part of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA). The team's aim is to develop and test a multi-faceted intervention program meant to increase cognitive and brain reserve by providing cognitive stimulation through participation in cognitive training sessions and engaging leisure activities. This will be done with a partially randomized controlled double-blind preference trial with a comprehensive cohort design, in participants with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) recruited in Montreal and Toronto.
Official title: Impact of a Cognitive Intervention Enriched With Leisure Activities on Cognition, Daily Life Functioning and Brain Structure and Function in Persons With Subjective Cognitive Decline: The ENGAGE Program
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
60 Years - 85 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
144
Start Date
2017-09-15
Completion Date
2026-06-30
Last Updated
2026-03-17
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
ENGAGE SPANISH/MUSIC
Cognitive strategies to improve attention and memory skills (21 hours), leisure activities (music lessons or Spanish lessons) (27 hours), selected videogames to practice variable attention strategies (4 hours in class + about 10 hours at home). Total of 24 2-hour in class sessions over 4 months. The training will be delivered to small groups of 5 to 8 participants by a trained therapist for formal sessions and a professional music or Spanish teacher for leisure sessions.
ENGAGE DISCOVERY
Educational content about brain and healthy aging (21 hours), leisure activities (watching documentaries followed by group discussion and debate) (27 hours), selected non-stimulating videogames (4 hours in class + about 10 hours at home). Total of 24 2-hour in class sessions over 4 months. The training will be delivered to small groups of 5 to 8 participants by the same trained therapist as in the ENGAGE arm.
Locations (2)
Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
CRIUGM
Montreal, Quebec, Canada