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Evaluation of a Novel Technology-Based Program Designed to Assess and Train Everyday Skills in Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Performance of everyday activities is often challenging for older adults. We evaluated a novel computer-based functional skills assessment and training (CFSAT) program, which includes simulations of everyday tasks (e.g., money and medication management).

Research design and methods

The sample included noncognitively impaired (NC) older adults (n = 51) and cognitively impaired (CI) older adults (n = 43), who ranged in age from 60 to 86 years (M = 73.12; SD = 6.06), were primarily female (90%), and ethnically diverse (23% Hispanic, 51% African American). Participants (stratified by cognitive status) were randomized to 1 of the 2 conditions training alone (CFSAT) or CFSAT with computerized cognitive training and trained up to 24 training sessions. Task performance, using measures of completion time and efficiency (accuracy/completion time), was evaluated at baseline, the final training session, and immediately posttraining with an alternate form of the CFSAT assessment.

Results

Both NC and CI participants demonstrated significant performance improvements across all tasks following training (all ps < .001). The CI participants demonstrated reduced training gains compared to the NC participants (all ps < .001). Training gains did not vary as a function of training conditions.

Discussion and implications

The findings suggest that CFSAT is an efficacious program for assessing and training everyday task performance. CFSAT can ultimately be used as an intervention strategy to enhance functional independence for aging adults with and without cognitive impairments.

SUBMITTER: Czaja SJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7724569 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evaluation of a Novel Technology-Based Program Designed to Assess and Train Everyday Skills in Older Adults.

Czaja Sara J SJ Kallestrup Peter P Harvey Philip D PD

Innovation in aging 20201209 6

<h4>Background and objectives</h4>Performance of everyday activities is often challenging for older adults. We evaluated a novel computer-based functional skills assessment and training (CFSAT) program, which includes simulations of everyday tasks (e.g., money and medication management).<h4>Research design and methods</h4>The sample included noncognitively impaired (NC) older adults (<i>n</i> = 51) and cognitively impaired (CI) older adults (<i>n</i> = 43), who ranged in age from 60 to 86 years ...[more]

PMID: 33324761

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Evaluation of a Novel Technology-Based Program Designed to Assess and Train Everyday Skills in Older Adults.

Background and objectives

Research design and methods

Results

Discussion and implications

Publications

Evaluation of a Novel Technology-Based Program Designed to Assess and Train Everyday Skills in Older Adults.

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