The Potential of a Relational Training Intervention to Improve Older Adults’ Cognition

Abstract Adherence to health behaviors is often poor, including adherence to at-home technology-based interventions. This study (N=120) explored adherence to a cognitive training intervention delivered via computer tablet, assessed adherence over a 4.5 month period, explored how individual difference factors shaped adherence, and tested the efficacy of message framing manipulations (positive vs. negative framing) in boosting adherence. Individual difference factors predicted adherence, including variations in self-efficacy and belief in the efficacy of cognitive training. Overall message framing had little impact. However, during the final portion of the study in which participants were asked to play as much or as little as they wanted instead of following a schedule, participants who received positively framed messages engaged with the intervention more. Implications for predicting and boosting adherence to home delivered technology-based interventions will be discussed.

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Effects of a 9-month resistance training intervention on quality of life, sense of coherence, and depressive symptoms in older adults: randomized controlled trial

Quality of Life Research ◽

10.1007/s11136-017-1733-z ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 455-465 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Tiia Kekäläinen ◽

Katja Kokko ◽

Sarianna Sipilä ◽

Simon Walker

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Older Adults ◽

Randomized Controlled Trial ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Resistance Training ◽

Sense Of Coherence ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Training Intervention ◽

Randomized Controlled

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Preventing disability in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: A Strategy Training intervention study

Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications ◽

10.1016/j.conctc.2019.100368 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 ◽

pp. 100368 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Juleen Rodakowski ◽

Katlyn W. Golias ◽

Charles F. Reynolds ◽

Meryl A. Butters ◽

Oscar L. Lopez ◽

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Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Cognitive Impairment ◽

Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽

Intervention Study ◽

Strategy Training ◽

Training Intervention

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Fitness Effects on the Cognitive Function of Older Adults

Psychological Science ◽

10.1111/1467-9280.t01-1-01430 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 125-130 ◽

Cited By ~ 2112

Author(s):

Stanley Colcombe ◽

Arthur F. Kramer

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Cognitive Function ◽

Aerobic Fitness ◽

Executive Control ◽

Neural Plasticity ◽

Intervention Studies ◽

Training Intervention ◽

Fitness Effects ◽

Fitness Training ◽

Study Participants

A meta-analytic study was conducted to examine the hypothesis that aerobic fitness training enhances the cognitive vitality of healthy but sedentary older adults. Eighteen intervention studies published between 1966 and 2001 were entered into the analysis. Several theoretically and practically important results were obtained. Most important, fitness training was found to have robust but selective benefits for cognition, with the largest fitness-induced benefits occurring for executive-control processes. The magnitude of fitness effects on cognition was also moderated by a number of programmatic and methodological factors, including the length of the fitness-training intervention, the type of the intervention, the duration of training sessions, and the gender of the study participants. The results are discussed in terms of recent neuroscientific and psychological data that indicate cognitive and neural plasticity is maintained throughout the life span.

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