Feasibility study of an attention training application for older adults

Abstract

Older adults enjoyed the ATA. This opens doors to user-friendly technological interventions that may be effective in assisting older adults maintain and possibly even improve their cognitive function.

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“…In particular, a study focused on pre-school children with a mean age of 60 months [29], while four papers focused especially on older adults with a mean age over 68 years [27,28,30,32].…”

“…Almost half of the eleven studies (5) were conducted in North America, four of them were performed in the United States of America [24,27,28,31] and one in Canada [32]. Three were conducted in Europe: -two in Italy [29,33] and one in Norway [26].…”

“…One study focused on adults affected by brain injuries [31], another one on cognitively impaired patients with multiple sclerosis [33] and the third study on patients with early stages of Alzheimer Disease [34]. Three papers focused on healthy older adults [27,28,30] while one study chooses a population of older adults with and without Subjective Cognitive Complaints and Mild Cognitive Impairment [32]. One study focused on adults with mild to moderate depression [24], one on overweight or obese adult [25].…”

“…The majority of the selected papers had a primary aim to evaluate the apps' in terms of usability, acceptability, feasibility and user satisfaction [26][27][28][29][32][33][34]. Only two articles [30,31] chose to describe the development and the improved design of the apps.…”

“…In 2015, Hill and colleagues's [27] developed an application to train attention. More recently, they [28] decided to improve it considering the problematic issues identified in their previous study of.…”