A New Comprehensive Educational Group Program for Older Adults with Cognitive Complaints: Background, Content, and Process Evaluation

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Group Discussion; Intervention; Older Adults; Neurological Impairments; Cognitive Ability; Cognitive Processes; Psychoeducational Methods; Aging (Individuals); Context Effect; Skill Development; Negative Attitudes; Emotional Response; Attitude Change; Females; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Life Style; Health Behavior; Memory; Attention; Incidence; Dementia; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Well Being; Stereotypes; Brain; Coping; Comparative Analysis; Depression (Psychology); Psychological Patterns; Foreign Countries

Eysenck Personality Inventory; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale

10.1080/03601277.2010.515888

0360-1277

This paper presents a comprehensive group intervention for older adults with cognitive complaints. It offers psychoeducation about cognitive aging and contextual factors, focuses on skills and compensatory behavior, and incorporates group discussion. The intervention reduced negative emotional reactions towards cognitive functioning in a controlled study in healthy women aged 60 to 75 years. Its background and content are described in detail to enable replication and large-scale implementation. Therefore, a process evaluation was carried out. The results support participants' appreciation and point to better self-evaluations after intervention. This intervention may offer a valuable contribution to public health care for older adults. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.)

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2011

EJ908684