Cognitive Training for People With Mild to Moderate Dementia
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Bahar-Fuchs, A., Martyr, A., et al. (2019).
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 3, Cd013069.
This meta-analysis investigates the effectiveness of cognitive training for people with mild to moderate dementia. It is an update of a 2013 Cochrane publication.
The Cochrane Collaboration; National Institute for Health Research (United Kingdom); National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
Up to July 5, 2018
Randomized controlled trials
33
Cognitive training showed small to moderate positive effects on global communication (Standard Mean Difference [SMD]: 0.42, 95% Cofidence Interval [CI]: 0.23, 0.62) and verbal semantic fluency (SMD: 0.52, 95% CI: 0.23, 0.81) in individuals with mild to moderate dementia when compared to a control intervention, but not when compared to alternative treatments (mindfulness, physical activity, counseling, etc.). However, confidence in many of these findings was low or very low due to unclear risk of bias in many included studies.
