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Preserving cognition through an integrated cognitive stimulation and training program
Background: Cognitive decline leads to disability and increased health care expenditures.; Methods: Effectiveness of an intervention to stimulate multiple cognitive domains was determined using a format combining traditional and computer-based activities (Integrated Cognitive Stimulation and Training Program), 45 minutes a day, 2 days a week, for 6 weeks. Nonimpaired, mildly, and moderately-impaired participants > age […]
Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for dementia (iCST): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Orrell, Martin,
Yates, Lauren A.,
Burns, Alistair,
Russell, Ian,
Woods, Robert T,
Hoare, Zoe,
Moniz-Cook, Esme,
Henderson, Catherine,
Knapp, Martin,
Spector, Aimee,
Orgeta, Vasiliki
Background: Improving the quality of care for people with dementia and their carers has become a national priority in many countries. Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) groups can be beneficial in improving cognition and quality of life for people with dementia. The aim of the current study is to develop and evaluate a home-based individual Cognitive […]
Maintenance Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) for dementia: a single-blind, multi-centre, randomized controlled trial of Maintenance CST vs. CST for dementia
Aguirre, Elisa,
Spector, Aimee,
Hoe, Juanita,
Russell, Ian T.,
Knapp, Martin,
Woods, Robert T,
Orrell, Martin
Background: Psychological treatments for dementia are widely used in the UK and internationally, but only rarely have they been standardised, adequately evaluated or systematically implemented. There is increasing recognition that psychosocial interventions may have similar levels of effectiveness to medication, and both can be used in combination. Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) is a 7-week cognitive-based […]
Maintenance Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) in practice: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Streater, Amy,
Spector, Aimee,
Aguirre, Elisa,
Hoe, Juanita,
Hoare, Zoe,
Woods, Robert,
Russell, Ian,
Orrell, Martin
Background: Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) is a psychosocial evidence-based group intervention for people with dementia recommended by the UK NICE guidelines. In clinical trials, CST has been shown to improve cognition and quality of life, but little is known about the best way of ensuring implementation of CST in practice settings. A recent pilot study […]
Improvement in memory with plasticity-based adaptive cognitive training: results of the 3-month follow-up
Zelinski, Elizabeth M.,
Spina, Laila M.,
Yaffe, Kristine,
Ruff, Ronald,
Kennison, Robert F.,
Mahncke, Henry W.,
Smith, Glenn E.
Objectives: To investigate maintenance of training effects of a novel brain plasticity-based computerized cognitive training program in older adults after a 3-month no-contact period.; Design: Multisite, randomized, controlled, double-blind trial with two treatment groups.; Setting: Communities in northern and southern California and Minnesota.; Participants: Four hundred eighty-seven community-dwelling adults aged 65 and older without diagnosis […]
Effects of cognitive stimulation therapy Japanese version (CST-J) for people with dementia: a single-blind, controlled clinical trial
Yamanaka, Katsuo,
Kawano, Yoshiyuki,
Noguchi, Dai,
Nakaaki, Shutaro,
Watanabe, Norio,
Amano, Takashi,
Spector, Aimee
Objectives: Cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) has shown to have significant benefits in improving the cognitive function and quality of life (QOL) in people with mild-to-moderate dementia in a UK randomized controlled trial (RCT). We developed and examined the Japanese version of group CST (CST-J) in a single-blind, controlled clinical trial.; Method: CST-J consisting of 14 […]