TAILIEUCHUNG - Cognitive Stimulation Programs in Healthy Elderly: A Review

In a seminal study in New Haven, CT, United States, data from a comprehensive annual health and welfare study of a representative sample of 2812 older people were merged with the database of the local agency concerned with adult abuse for each year over a 9-year period (50). Information for the health survey was recorded by nurses, who saw the older people at a hospital for the first year’s data collection and every third year after that. In the intervening years, data were updated by telephone. Information about abuse and neglect was obtained by case workers using existing protocols after investigating claims of mistreatment, usually by a home visit | SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research International Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Volume 2011 Article ID 378934 13 pages doi 2011 378934 Review Article Cognitive Stimulation Programs in Healthy Elderly A Review Sarah Tardif1 2 and Martine Simard1 2 1 Ecole de Psychologie Universite Laval Pavilion Felix-Antoine Savard 2325 rue des Bibliotheques local 1116 Quebec QC Canada G1V0A6 2 Centre de Recherche Universite Laval Robert-Giffard Quebec QC Canada G1J 2G3 Correspondence should be addressed to Sarah Tardif Received 16 January 2011 Revised 2 May 2011 Accepted 30 May 2011 Academic Editor Patrizia Mecocci Copyright 2011 S. Tardif and M. Simard. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. This literature paper investigated the efficacy of 14 cognitive intervention programs administered to healthy elderly participants. PsycINFO and PubMed databases were searched using the following terms cognitive training cognitive stimulation elderly and aging. The majority of participants 13 14 studies were recruited in community. Nine out of 14 studies targeted memory as the principal cognitive function to train or stimulate. Face-name associations mental imagery paired associations and the method of loci were the main techniques taught to participants. Improvements were observed on at least one outcome measure in each study included in this paper. Recommendations to improve cognitive interventions in the healthy elderly are proposed such as the utilization of more robust experimental designs the inclusion of measures of generalization of training in daily life the assessment of instrumental activities of daily living quality of life and self-esteem. 1. Introduction In the current demographic context aging and neurodegen-erative diseases are well known and very much discussed in the media as

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