Long-term Tablet-computer Based Casual Puzzle Video Game Intervention in Healthy Older and Cognitively Impaired Persons

The psychological intervention consists of two custom-made versions of popular commercial casual puzzle video games (Flow Free, Big Duck Games LCC; Bejeweled, PopCap Games). The puzzle games are delivered on tablet-computers computer (12.9-inch tablet computer iPad Pro, Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA).

The control intervention uses a newspaper/ magazine reading task that will be delivered to participants using the same device (iPad Pro) as in the experimental intervention. The newspaper/ magazine reading task will be running on the built-in Apple Newsstand application. Participants will be offered subscriptions for two newspapers and/or magazines that they are instructed to read following the same regime as in the experimental condition.