Seniors who received brief training in cognitive areas, such as
reasoning and mental processing, showed sustained improvement in those areas
even after 10 years, according to a recent study reported in the Journal of the
American Geriatrics Society.
Researchers at Johns
Hopkins University
and other facilities offered cognitive training sessions over five to six weeks
to seniors averaging just over 73 years of age.
Each session lasted between an hour and an hour-and-fifteen minutes.
Participants in the reasoning groups were given instruction
in problem solving and pattern recognition, and participants in the
speed-of-processing groups were trained with a computer to quickly identify
visual information.
After 10 years, improvement was still significant. And participants who had received additional
sessions during the first three years showed even greater improvement.
Memory training was also administered in the study, and
sustained improvement was evident after five years, but leveled off at the
10-year mark.
For more information, see this report in the Journal of the
American Geriatrics Society:
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