Galvin wouldn’t discuss Biden or Trump because he hasn’t examined them—but said that generally it’s a good idea for seniors to get checked yearly to spot changes. It’s much like how doctors don’t assume your blood pressure’s still fine, they measure it. How is a cognitive test...
Identifying practice effects on cognitive test in healthy seniors and dementia patientsdoi:10.1016/j.jalz.2006.05.1337Jacqueline AbrisquetaGomezElizabeth B. PiovezanMauro Roberto PiovezanAniza E.A. SasaharaCarim Fernanda FernandesLia E. Bender Piske...
Both cognitive and physical fitness interventions have been utilized in intervention studies to assess maintenance and enhancement of attention abilities in seniors, and a coupling of these approaches is a compelling strategy to buttress both cognitive and physical health in a time- and resource-...
Here we used a vigilance task as our primary cognitive outcome measure to assess the intervention’s impact on attention abilities. This task was a customized Continuous Performance Task (CPT), which is a modified version of a well-validated sustained attention task, the Test of Variables of Att...
With the ultimate goal of providing a monitoring tool that could be used to support the screening for cognitive decline, this study aims to develop a supervised, digitized version of 2 neuropsychological tests: Trail Making Test and Bells Test. The system consists of a web app that implements ...
Timing difficulties could not only affect the quality of life of seniors, but also, for example, the ability to manage weekly appointments or to cross the street, thus restricting their autonomy in the daily life. In addition, aging at work, the feeling of not being able to manage one’s...
Task performance can represent a decline and/or be functionally limiting for an individual even when not scoring in a “severe” or “impaired” range on tests. Highest level of education achieved should be recorded and considered in the interpretation of cognitive test scores. Life stage: ...
For each intervention cycle, the plan was to recruit 20 participants by placing advertisements in local newspapers, distributing flyers and putting up posters on relevant sites of the neighbourhood (e.g., churches, cafés frequented by seniors), as well as to solicit the support of community ...
Together, they provide support for rehabilitation needs and may also serve as a set of comprehensive and established criteria by which an MCI serious game may be evaluated. To demonstrate the use of MCI-GaTE, we also present A-go!, an immersive gesture-based serious game that exploits the ...
Examining data from 2,056 participants in the Seniors-Study on Nutrition and Cardiovascular Risk in Spain, researchers noted daily consumption of 10 grams (0.35 ounces, roughly a one inch square piece) or more of dark chocolate in the previous year was associated with better cognitive performance...