A Language-Based Training Intervention to Enhance Cognitive Health in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Taiwan is fast approaching a super-aged society, making it urgent to bolster cognitive health in otherwise healthy older adults. This integrated project tackles that need with a language-centered intervention grounded in predictive-coding and active-inference theory. Over 12 weeks, community-dwelling adults aged 65 + join small-group reading-and-writing workshops that train them to actively predict, monitor, and revise linguistic information. Ninety volunteers are randomly allocated to an active language-prediction group, a passive reading group, or a hobby board-game control. Before and after the course, researchers collect behavioural tests, EEG, fMRI, and AI-based speech-language analytics to quantify gains and transfer effects across cognition, emotion, and daily function.

NCT Number	NCT07132281
Lead Sponsor	National Taiwan University Hospital
Conditions	Promoting Active Inference of Healthy Older Adults With Language Activity
Enrollment	120 participants
Start Date	2025-09-02
Primary Completion	2026-12-31 (estimated)
Study Completion	2028-12-31 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-01-07