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A Digital Active Aging Training Program for Older Adults

Psychological Stress | Social Interaction | Cognitive Change | Loneliness | Healthy Aging

The proposed project aims to develop and validate a multi-dimensional digital active aging program integrated with resilience to promote the biopsychosocial functions of older adults aged 60, including Chinese older immigrants in Canada (Study 1) and English-speaking White Canadian older adults (Study 2).

The proposed study takes a typical pretest-training-posttest design. Pretest and posttest: a battery of outcome measures on physical, psychological, and social functions will be administered to all participants. Data will also be used to identify sociodemographic risk predictors for outcome variables (i.e., biopsychosocial functions and resilience). Training: the participants will be randomly assigned to three arms to receive 4 weeks of 16 training/practice/control treatment sessions delivered via Zoom.

In the "active aging with resilience (AR)" condition, participants will complete physical, cognitive, and social engagement training modules, starting with a 30-min resilience-building module. The traditional "active aging" (AA) training involves the same multi-domain active aging training without the initial resilience-building module. The "workshop training" (WT) control condition involves workshops following the same 4-week schedule on aging-related topics.

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Participation Requirements

  • Sex:

    ALL

  • Eligible Ages:

    65 and up

Participation Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Study 1(Chinese group):

1. Aged 65 or over and healthy
2. Chinese migrant (e.g., Canadian citizens, immigrants, visitors that are born and raised in the Chinese culture)
3. Can speak, read and write Mandarin
4. Having access to a computer that has internet and allows Zoom meeting attendance

Study 2(Canadian group):

1. Aged 65 or over and healthy
2. White Canadian citizen
3. Can speak, read and write English
4. Having access to a computer that has internet and allows Zoom meeting attendance

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Scored 10 or above on the Short blessed test (SBT)
2. Unfit for light physical exercises
3. Without access to a computer and internet
4. With current or previous mental health diagnosis

Study Location

Cognitive Aging Lab
Cognitive Aging Lab
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Contact Study Team

Primary Contact

Lixia Yang, PhD

[email protected]
416-979-5000
Study Sponsored By
Toronto Metropolitan University
Participants Required
More Information
Study ID: NCT06270862