Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40122970›Full record

ReviewEuropean journal of ageing2025

Optimizing cognitive interventions to improve real-world function for healthy older adults.

Rachel Wu, Tania M Rodriguez, Bethany P Tavenner, Isadora Farias Lopes de Queiroz, Walter Boot, Jeanine Parisi, Michelle Carlson, Martin Lövdén, Margaret E Beier, Alan Gow

Abstract readReview
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Review in European journal of ageing, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Rachel WuDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Psychology Building, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA. Rachel.wu@ucr.edu.
Tania M RodriguezDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Psychology Building, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
Bethany P TavennerDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Psychology Building, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
Isadora Farias Lopes de QueirozDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Psychology Building, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
Walter BootDivision of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, USA.
Jeanine ParisiDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA.
Michelle CarlsonDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Center On Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Martin LövdénDepartment of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Margaret E BeierDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Rice University, Houston, USA.
Alan GowDepartment of Psychology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

Funding

The Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research - Research Ed ComponentP30AG059298 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Joseph John Gallo, ROLAND J. THORPE · 2018 to 2026
$7.1M
Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences BCS-1848026NIA NIH HHS P30 AG059298NIH HHS 1 P30 AG 059298
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Healthy aging requires acquiring new functional skills for adaptation in a dynamic environment. Cognitive interventions with older adults have largely focused on improving broad cognitive abilities, aiming for transfer to functional effects. By contrast, interventions focusing directly on acquiring new functional skills can address current real-world issues, including the need for reskilling and reducing the digital divide, especially for underserved communities. In doing so, we may better understand how aspects of age-related learning and cognitive and functional decline may be due to suboptimal learning circumstances rather than senescence. In this opinion paper, we highlight key aspects for designing long-lasting, real-world interventions to improve functional skills, and potentially transfer to cognitive effects, for older adults. This approach could help build more inclusive theories of cognitive aging, while progressing the field toward developing more effective and useful interventions.

Indexed as

Cognitive agingCognitive interventionsFunctional declineReal-world function

Identifiers

PMID40122970
PMCPMC11930899

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.