Speed of Processing Training for Stress Adaptation in Caregivers of a Family Member With Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The chronic stress of caregiving for a family member with Alzheimer''s disease and related dementias (ADRD) is associated with a host of health risks, including accelerated cognitive aging and poor emotional well-being. Despite known links between cognitive and emotion regulatory pathways, cognitive training has not been tested in ADRD caregivers as a means to strengthen cognitive capacity and concomitant emotion regulation, domains undergirding stress adaptation. This study aimed to identify effects of computerized cognitive training on cognitive and emotion indicators of caregivers'' capacity for stress adaptation, a key mechanism for healthy aging.'