A Tablet for Healthy Ageing: The Effect of a Tablet Computer Training Intervention on Cognitive Abilities in Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the efficacy of a tablet computer training intervention to improve cognitive abilities of older adults.

Design

Prospective randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Community-based aging intervention study, Edinburgh, UK.

Participants

Forty-eight healthy older adults aged 65 to 76 years were recruited at baseline with no or minimal tablet experience; 43 completed follow-up testing.

Intervention

Twenty-two participants attended a weekly 2-hour class for 10 weeks during which they learned how to use a tablet and various applications on it.

Measurements

A battery of cognitive tests from the WAIS-IV measuring the domains of Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Processing, Working Memory, and Processing Speed, as well as health, psychological,

SUBMITTER: Vaportzis E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5444526 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature