Cognitive Health

This webinar series from the Cleveland ADRC highlights medical information and social issues on brain health that are pertinent to the Black community.

This article highlights how concentrated community memory screening events can be an effective and efficient recruitment strategy for Alzheimer’s disease research.

In this two-page flyer, a healthy participant who does not have Alzheimer’s disease describes why he decided to participate in Alzheimer’s research.

This annual lecture series on healthy brain aging and prevention is presented by the University of California, Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC).

The Healthy Brains website is an online resource center that provides individualized brain health assessment tools, lifestyle tips, information on clinical trials, videos, and medical news.

The Stanford ADRC provides videos and presentations about Alzheimer's and related dementias in Spanish.

NIA has created four video stories profiling participants in Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials. These videos feature participants from different walks of life who discuss what motivates them and how research staff support them to participate in studies and trials. The videos are intended to be shared as part of engagement and recruitment efforts for clinical studies. Each video was made with a specific audience in mind: Will’s Story—When both of Will’s parents developed dementia, he and his...

The Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (MADRC) and the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment (CART) maintain a roster of community educators and MADRC/CART faculty and staff who are available to make educational presentations. Customized educational programs can be arranged. Programs offered in Boston and surround communities cover such topics as normal versus abnormal memory in aging, the importance of early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and related dementias, prevention...

This study explored whether community health fair attendees who engaged in a brief cognitive screen were more likely to enroll in research than attendees who did not complete the screen. Of 483 health fair attendees who were tracked for 1 year after the event, 364 attendees expressed interest in research and 126 completed a brief cognitive screen. Screen completers had a 2.5-fold increase in eligibility for clinical studies/trials compared with non-screen completers. However, when limited only...

One challenge in cognitive-decline prevention trials is sample recruitment bias—willing volunteers could be socially active, in relatively good health, and have high educational levels and cognitive function, which could reduce the generalizability of study results and mask trial effects. The authors developed a randomized, controlled trial to examine whether conversation-based cognitive stimulation delivered through personal computers, a webcam, and the Internet would have a positive effect on...