Cognitive training sessions can help older adults

Older adults who received as few as 10 sessions of mental (cognitive) training showed improvements in reasoning ability and speed-of-processing when compared with untrained controls participants as long as 10 years after the intervention. These gains were even greater for those who got additional €œbooster€ sessions over the next three years. Older adults who received brief cognitive training also reported that they had less difficulty in performing important everyday tasks. The findings are published recently in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.€œShowing that training gains are maintained for up to 10 years is a stunning result because it suggests