Making Memory Better for Seniors With Mild Cognitive Impairment

Experimental: Cognitive training

Conductual: Cognitive training

The cognitive training consists of 10 weekly 2-hour sessions. It is run with groups of MCI participants and their study partners (who help with reinforcing the strategies in everyday activities). The program provides information about memory and lifestyle factors in the first two weeks, followed by training and practice over the next eight weeks on empirically-supported cognitive strategies known to be effective at supporting day-to-day remembering in MCI. Participants learn to apply a core set of strategies (spaced retrieval, memory book logging) across a variety of common memory problems (e.g., remembering names, appointments, etc). To enhance the likelihood that these strategies will transfer to other settings beyond training, participants are also taught a memory problem solving approach that will cue them to recognize situations in which they need to: (1) stop and remember something, (2) select and apply an appropriate memory strategy, and (3) monitor that it is working.

Sin intervención: No cognitive training

Change in everyday memory functioning

Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (3rd Edition)

Change on traditional memory testing

California Verbal Learning Test (2nd Edition)

Change in memory perception

Multifactorial Metamemory Questionnaire

Change in mood (i.e., self-report symptoms of depression)

Geriatric Depression Scale

Change in mood (i.e., self-report symptoms of anxiety)

Beck Anxiety Inventory

Change in other psychiatric symptoms (informant-report)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory

Change in quality of life

Zarit Burden Interview

Change in caregiver burden

Zarit Burden Interview

Feasibility

Recruitment, retention, and compliance rates