FUNCTIONAL SKILLS TRAINING
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS TRAINING
Improvements in performance based measures of functional capacity and cognition after computerized functional skills training in older people with mild cognitive impairment and healthy comparators
Harvey et al., Psychiatry Res. (2024)
Psychiatry Research
Improvements in performance based measures of functional capacity and cognition after computerized functional skills training in older people with mild cognitive impairment and healthy comparators
SUMMARY
A computerized skills training intervention, FUNSAT, previously produced training-related gains in cognition in MCI and in comparators with normal cognition (NC). A new remotely delivered version of FUNSAT was, in this study, administered to a new sample of participants with NC and MCI.
Computerized functional skills training improved performance-based measures of cognition functional capacity. Changes were 3–4 times as large as expected practice effects. Changes in these two outcomes were similar in magnitude in participants with MCI and normal cognition. Computerized cognitive training added to skills training led to greater gains per training session.
