Maintaining Autonomy as we Age. Strategy Training for Age-related Executive Dysfunction.

Maintaining Autonomy as we Age: Investigating the Application of a Strategy Training Approach for Ameliorating the Effects of Age-related Executive Dysfunction - Part II

Healthy older adults with self-reported cognitive difficulties who receive strategy training will demonstrate greater performance benefits on measures of real-world activities, relative to those receiving a control intervention, immediately post treatment and at follow-up.

Inclusion Criteria:

• All participants must score within 1.5 standard deviation (SD) of age and education-corrected normative data for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and on a battery of neuropsychological tests of attention, memory and executive function (which will insure that participants are unlikely to meet the criteria for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)).
• No clinically relevant depression (scores ≤22) on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Self-reported complains about cognitive function

Exclusion Criteria:

• Recent bereavement (within last 6 months)
• History of neurological disease
• Psychiatric illness requiring hospitalization and/or history or current substance abuse