Tardif Sarah, Simard Martine
École de Psychologie, Université Laval Pavillon Félix-Antoine Savard, 2325 rue des Bibliothèques, local 1116, Québec, QC, Canada G1V 0A6.
Int J Alzheimers Dis. 2011;2011:378934. doi: 10.4061/2011/378934. Epub 2011 Aug 15.
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.
这篇文献论文研究了针对健康老年参与者实施的14种认知干预项目的效果。使用以下检索词对PsycINFO和PubMed数据库进行了检索:认知训练、认知刺激、老年人和衰老。大多数参与者(13/14项研究)是在社区招募的。14项研究中有9项将记忆作为主要的认知功能进行训练或刺激。向参与者传授的主要技巧包括面孔-名字联想、心理意象、配对联想和记忆宫殿法。本文纳入的每项研究中至少有一项结果指标观察到了改善。文中还提出了改善对健康老年人认知干预的建议,例如采用更可靠的实验设计、纳入日常生活中训练泛化的测量、评估日常生活活动能力、生活质量和自尊。