JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Long-term effects of cognitive training on everyday functional outcomes in older adults.
Cognitive training has been shown to improve cognitive abilities in older adults but the effects of cognitive training on everyday function have not been demonstrated. ⋯ Reasoning training resulted in less functional decline in self-reported IADL. Compared with the control group, cognitive training resulted in improved cognitive abilities specific to the abilities trained that continued 5 years after the initiation of the intervention.