Cognitive training in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: impact on functional status

• Grant number: 07/03241-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2007
• End date: November 30, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Human Development Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Monica Sanches Yassuda
• Grantee: Paula Schimidt Brum
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Cognitive aging is associated with decline in some cognitive functions, however, studies document that older adults can find ways to compensate for such changes. Previous studies (e.g., Ball et al., 2002) have indicated that older adults can benefit from cognitive training. Recently, researchers and clinicians who work with older adults have focused on cognitive changes that may signal the pre-clinical stage of dementia (mild cognitive impairment). The efficacy of cognitive interventions for this population has not been tested. This study intends to evaluate the impact of cognitive training of 8 sessions offered to 60 older adults diagnosed with MCI by a multidisciplinary team at the Psychogeriatric Clinic at the Institute of Psychiatry at FMUSP. This study will investigate the impact of this intervention on the functional status of participants.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BRUM‚ P.S.; FORLENZA‚ O.V.; YASSUDA‚ M.S.. Cognitive training in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment. Neuropsychologia, v. 3, p. 124-131, 2009. (07/03241-8)