CD Attention Trainer Improves Older Adults Memory

CD 注意力训练器可提高老年人的记忆力

• 批准号: 7108319
• 负责人: ROBERT RAGER
• 金额: $ 38.6万
• 依托单位: COMPACT DISC, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-12-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7108319
• 关键词: DVD /CD ROM; Internet; aging; attention; behavior modification; behavior test; behavior therapy; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cognition; computer program /software; computer system design /evaluation; functional ability; human old age (65+); human subject; memory; psychological concentration; questionnaires; telecommunications

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Increasing the ability of older adults to live independently is a growing public health priority. Because age- related memory declines intimate risk of dependency, older adults are concerned about their ability to remember information and events of a few hours ago and acts performed even a few moments ago. We propose an innovative CD-DVD/Web Attention Trainer program, aka Attention Works, to improve three basic components of attention, i.e., 1) coordinating, 2) allocating, and 3) focusing, relevant to everyday cognitive function of community-residing elderly. Memory theories pose a central role for attention in guiding the initial encoding and later retrieval of to-be-learned information, and deficits in attention, rather than in retrieval, may undermine the well elderly's everyday memory functioning. Enhancing basic attention components will help mitigate against many everyday cognitive complaints of the elderly when running multiple errands, complying with medication regimens, and keeping physician appointments which place heavy demands on coordinating, allocating, and focusing attention. The proposed intervention holds promise for older adults in bolstering their attentional skills including the encoding of new information into memory and remembering habitual acts. The program, designed to be comfortable, entertaining, and engaging, will equip elderly adults with skills to: maintain and increase attentional skills; improve perceived efficacy for successfully completing everyday tasks with heavy attention demands; and monitor the effects of increased attentional function on everyday cognition, memory, and performance. Phase I field-tested the acceptability and efficacy of the pilot program dealing with two of the core components of attention: coordination and allocation, with samples of community-residing elderly. Phase II will fully develop the ATTENTION WORKS to include the third 'focusing attention' component in CD, WEB, and DVD program versions to meet the everyday cognitive needs of elderly across a spectrum of demographic variables. The Phase II goal is to develop the ATTENTION WORKS to meet a variety of specific attention training needs for community- residing individuals of advancing age, and to encourage individual behavior change with regard to both everyday attention performance, perceived attentional difficulties, and global aspects of day-to-day functioning. Phase III will have primary commercialization support from Practical Memory Institute LTD.

描述（由申请人提供）：增强老年人独立生活的能力是日益增长的公共卫生优先事项。由于与年龄相关的记忆会降低依赖性的密切风险，因此老年人担心自己在几个小时前记住信息和事件的能力，甚至在片刻前进行的行为。我们提出了一个创新的CD-DVD/Web注意培训师计划，即注意力，以改善三个基本关注的组成部分，即1）协调，2）分配和3）专注于社区老年人的日常认知功能。记忆理论在指导最初的编码和后来检索要学习的信息以及关注而不是检索中的缺陷可能会破坏老年人的日常记忆功能。增强基本注意力组成部分将有助于减轻多个差事，遵守药物治疗方案，并保持对协调，分配和集中注意力的强烈要求时，应对老年人的许多日常认知抱怨。拟议的干预措施对老年人有希望加强注意力技能，包括将新信息编码为记忆和记住习惯行为。该计划旨在舒适，娱乐和引人入胜，将为老年人提供：维持和提高注意力技能的技能；提高感知的功效，以成功地完成满足需求的日常任务；并监视增加注意力功能对日常认知，记忆和表现的影响。第一阶段测试了针对两个核心关注组成部分的试点计划的可接受性和功效：协调和分配，以及社区居住的老年人的样本。第二阶段将完全开发注意力工作，以在CD，Web和DVD程序版本中包括第三个“聚焦注意力”组件，以满足在人口统计学变量范围内老年人的日常认知需求。第二阶段的目标是开发注意力工作，以满足社区居住年龄的个人的各种特定注意力训练需求，并鼓励个人行为的改变，以改变日常注意力表现，感知到的注意力困难以及日常运作的全球方面。第三阶段将获得实用记忆研究所有限公司的主要商业化支持。