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ArticleBrain and behavior2021

Predictors of activities of daily living in heathy older adults: Who benefits most from online cognitive training?

Mandy Roheger, Elke Kalbe, Anne Corbett, Helen Brooker, Clive Ballard

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Article in Brain and behavior, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Effects of different training characteristics in combined resistance and cognitive training on motor and cognitive performance in older adults: A systematic review.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Mandy RohegerDepartment of Medical Psychology, Neuropsychology and Gender Studies & Center for Neuropsychological Diagnostics and Intervention (CeNDI), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6015-3194
Elke KalbeDepartment of Medical Psychology, Neuropsychology and Gender Studies & Center for Neuropsychological Diagnostics and Intervention (CeNDI), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Anne CorbettInstitute of Health Research, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2015-0316
Helen BrookerInstitute of Health Research, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7908-263X
Clive BallardInstitute of Health Research, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
University of Exeter · GBGender Studies · CZUniversitätsmedizin Greifswald · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo investigate the course of activities of daily living (IADL) functioning and possible predictors of performance changes in healthy older adults conducting either a General Cognitive Training (GCT) or a Reasoning Cognitive Training (ReaCT) or no training (control group, CG) over a period of 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months. SETTING AND

participantsAn online, home-based GCT and ReaCT including n = 2913 healthy participants (GCT: n = 1096; ReaCT: n = 1022; CG: n = 794) aged 60 years and older.

methodsMultilevel analysis were calculated to explore the nature of our outcome variables of IADL part A (independence) and part B (difficulty of tasks), and to detect possible predictors for participants' performance on IADL after CT.

resultsThe random slopes models fitted better for the outcomes IADL Part B in the GCT group (χ CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATION: The particular effectiveness in women is of clinical relevance, as IADL is typically more impaired in women than in men in advanced age. Following a personalized medicine approach, identifying predictors of non-pharmacological intervention success is of utmost importance.

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Activities of Daily LivingCognition DisordersAgedCognitionFemaleHealth StatusHumansMaleMiddle AgedProblem Solvinghealthy older adultspredictionreasoning cognitive training

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PMID34661996
PMCPMC8613408
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