| This program is an expanded version of the current, ACTIVE Memory Works™, clinical trial. This version of that program, The Memory Works™, contains both the Attention Workout, which showed measurable benefits during its 2013 clinical trial, and an updated/online version of the ACTIVE Study Memory Intervention (ACTIVE Study), which demonstrated measurable benefits a full ten years after the training program ended. PurposeThe purpose of this project, and your part in it, is to validate the effectiveness of the Attention Workout™ and ACTIVE Memory Works programs with a broader range of audiences than were used during either of the formal clinical trials. In addition, it is our belief that taking these two programs together will generate results that are even more significant than the two programs did separately. We hope your results in this program will help validate that hypothesis. Should this hypothesis prove to be true, The Memory Works LLC will attempt to commercialize this product and make it available to the public in the future. The Attention Workout ProgramThe Attention Workout is a set of five activities designed to increase and/or strengthen your attention skills in three areas:
It is our belief that any improvements in your attention skills will measurably and significantly improve your performance in the ACTIVE Memory Works program. The ACTIVE Memory Works ProgramAs mentioned above, the ACTIVE Memory Works is an updated, online version of the original ACTIVE Study conducted in 1998. The National Institute on Aging extended that program’s assessment period twice, allowing researchers to follow the original program’s participants for a full ten years. To date, this is the only memory improvement program in the world to show measurable and beneficial affects in the lives of the study participants a full ten years after the training intervention. |