The Intervention Factory

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  The Intervention Factory: Advancing community-based activities as interventions for cognitive ageing

• IRAS ID

  238302

• Contact name

  Alan J. Gow

• Contact email

  A.J.Gow@hw.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Heriot-Watt University

• Duration of Study in the UK

  4 years, 0 months, 0 days

• Research summary

  As we age, we may experience general declines in our thinking, memory and reasoning skills (cognitive ageing). There is, however, large variation in the degree of decline experienced. Keeping intellectually, socially or physically engaged have all been proposed as potentially protective. These factors have been incorporated in interventions for cognitive ageing, though are often developed and tested in lab-based settings that may not translate to realistic environments. The project will test a range of activities within existing community-based programmes as potential interventions to reduce cognitive ageing in old age.

• REC name

  South East Scotland REC 02

• REC reference

  17/SS/0153

• Date of REC Opinion

  22 Dec 2017

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion