Implementación de un programa de estimulación cognitiva en personas con demencia tipo Alzheimer: un estudio piloto en chilenos de la tercera edad

Cognitive stimulation therapy for people with dementia in Brazil (CST‐Brasil): Results from a single blind randomized controlled trial

“…Although highlighting the positive impact on cognitive functioning, previous CST trials did not observe a benefit in the ADL 34,39 . Improvement in ADL despite no cognitive benefits is a novel finding, given the relationship between cognition and functionality in dementia, 40 and it may reflect the impact of other variables, such as mood, in improving capacity (e.g., better mood leading to more engagement in activities). Functional impairment is a key issue in dementia affecting both patient’ and caregiver's QoL, so enhancing mobility and independency is an important outcome in clinical trials.…”

A Conceptual View of Cognitive Intervention in Older Adults With and Without Cognitive Decline—A Systemic Review

“…In turn, most Cognitive stimulation studies that did not include computerized tasks found gains on several cognitive domains in healthy older adults ( Tranter and Koutstaal, 2008 ; Ferná ndez-Prado et al, 2012 ; De Oliveira et al, 2014 ; Suzuki et al, 2014 ; Zimmermann et al, 2014 ; Zon et al, 2016 ; Grimaud et al, 2017 ; Herrera et al, 2017 ; Young, 2020 ) and older adults with mild to moderate dementia ( Spector et al, 2003 ; Woods et al, 2006 ; Moro et al, 2012 ; Yamanaka et al, 2013 ; Moro et al, 2015 ; Capotosto et al, 2017 ; Piras et al, 2017 ; Stewart et al, 2017 ; Young et al, 2019 ). This intervention has also been proved to reduce cognitive decline in people with AD ( Vidovich et al, 2011 ; Miranda-Castillo et al, 2012 ). Other improvements were observed in apathy and depression symptomatology ( Niu et al, 2010 ) and conversation and communication skills ( Spector et al, 2010 ).…”

“…While Cognitive Training focuses on specific cognitive domains, Cognitive Stimulation consists of engaging patients in non-specific activities to produce improvements in general mental functioning ( Miranda-Castillo et al, 2012 ; Bahar-Fuchs et al, 2013 ; Herrera et al, 2017 ). For example, in a population with AD, the first method aims to improve, or at least maintain, cognitive and social function, while the second tries to reduce cognitive impairment ( Clare and Woods, 2004 ; Mowszowski et al, 2010 ; Kueider et al, 2014 ).…”

Effects of cognitive stimulation program on cognition and mood in older adults, stratified by cognitive levels: A randomized controlled trial

“…Other authors found similar results between groups in participants with normal cognition (Polito et al, 2015;Schultheisz et al, 2018) and within group (P. Gamito et al, 2020;Park et al, 2019;Tarnanas et al, 2014); in participants with MCI bet-ween groups (Polito et al, 2015;Tsai et al, 2019), and within group (Llanero Luque et al, 2011), also including older adults from MCI to mild-to-moderate dementia bet-ween groups (J Alves et al, 2014) and within group (Kim et al, 2017) post-intervention; as well as an effect of interaction between session and group in participants with MCI (Moro et al, 2015) In agreement with our results, other authors also found no significant differences in participants with dementia, between groups (Capotosto et al, 2017;Liu et al, 2021;López et al, 2022), all of them administered adapted CS but with a higher number of sessions. Two of them applied participants living in a community and within group (Alvares-Pereira et al, 2021;J Alves et al, 2014;Capotosto et al, 2017;Cove et al, 2014;Gibbor et al, 2021;Justo-Henriques et al, 2021;López et al, 2022;Miranda-Castillo et al, 2013;Orrell et al, 2012;Orgeta et al, 2015), four of these studies applied to in younger aged older adults (J Alves et al, 2014;Cove et al, 2014;Justo-Henriques et al, 2021;Orgeta et al, 2015), and five administered adapted CS (Jorge Alves et al, 2014;Capotosto et al, 2017;Cove et al, 2014;Gibbor et al, 2021;López et al, 2022). Of all studies applying a higher number of sessions, three studies involved in community-dwelling pa...…”