OBJECTIVES To investigate dual-task performance of gait and cognition in cognitively healthy and cognitively impaired older adults using a motor-cognition dual-task paradigm. DESIGN Cross-sectional retrospective study. SETTING The Basel Memory Clinic and the Basel Study on the Elderly (Project BASEL). PARTICIPANTS Seven hundred eleven older adults (mean age 77.2±6.2, 350 (49.2%) female an...

Procedural content generators overly focused on numeric variations of content suffer from what we term the Kaleidoscope Effect: because we readily grasp the potential of the generative space, it is not interesting. In this position paper, we argue that the future of procedural content generation will be limited by this effect. We therefore propose a shift toward cognitively-grounded procedural ...

AKTIVA-MCI is a program for patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) that aims to enhance participation in cognitively stimulating leisure activities. Participation in cognitively stimulating activities seems to be a potential strategy for people with MCI delaying cognitive decline for a while. In total, 35 MCI patients were enrolled in the pilot study of whom 29 completed the whole progra...

OBJECTIVE To determine how cognitively healthy and cognitively impaired life expectancy have changed from 2000 to 2010 among American men and women 65 years of age and over. METHODS The prevalence of dementia, cognitive impairment without dementia (CIND), and normal cognition is determined from the nationally representative data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Mortality rates...