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Preventing Alzheimer's With Cognitive Training
Sponsor: University of South Florida
Summary
Dementia is the most expensive medical condition in the US and increases in prevalence with age. More than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. Mild cognitive impairment is a transitional stage between normal cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease or another type of dementia, and is indicative of higher risk for dementia. In addition to the obvious health and quality-of-life ramifications of dementia, there are high direct (e.g., subsidizing residential care needs) and indirect (e.g., lost productivity of family caregivers) economic costs. Implementing interventions to prevent MCI and dementia among older adults is of critical importance to health and maintained quality-of-life for millions of Americans. Recent data analyses from the Advanced Cognitive Training in Vital Elderly study (ACTIVE) indicate that a specific cognitive intervention, speed of processing training (SPT), significantly delays the incidence of cognitive impairment across 10 years. The primary contribution of the proposed research will be the determination of whether this cognitive training technique successfully delays the onset of clinically defined MCI or dementia across three years.
Official title: Cognitive Training to Reduce Incidence of Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
65 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
7600
Start Date
2019-02-19
Completion Date
2026-01-31
Last Updated
2024-09-26
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
Cognitive Training
Participants will be completing a total of 45 computerized sessions.
Computerized Cognitive Stimulation
Participants will be completing a total of 45 computerized cognitive stimulation sessions.
Locations (7)
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, United States
University of Florida
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
The Roskamp Institute
Sarasota, Florida, United States
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida, United States
Duke Health
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Clemson University Institute for Engaged Aging
Seneca, South Carolina, United States