The way we were: Perceptions of past memory change in older adults.

2009 ◽  
pp. 197-216
Author(s):  
David F. Hultsch ◽  
Allison A. M. Bielak ◽  
Carolyn B. Crow ◽  
Roger A. Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Memory Change ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals The Impact of Memory Change on Everyday Life Among Older Adults: Association with Cognition and Self-Reported Memory

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Komal T. Shaikh ◽  
Erica L. Tatham ◽  
Susan Vandermorris ◽  
Theone Paterson ◽  
Kathryn Stokes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Everyday Functioning ◽  
Positive Coping ◽  
Memory Change ◽  
Lifestyle Activities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
With Memory

Abstract Objectives: Many older adults experience memory changes that can have a meaningful impact on their everyday lives, such as restrictions to lifestyle activities and negative emotions. Older adults also report a variety of positive coping responses that help them manage these changes. The purpose of this study was to determine how objective cognitive performance and self-reported memory are related to the everyday impact of memory change. Methods: We examined these associations in a sample of 94 older adults (age 60–89, 52% female) along a cognitive ability continuum from normal cognition to mild cognitive impairment. Results: Correlational analyses revealed that greater restrictions to lifestyle activities (|rs| = .36–.66), more negative emotion associated with memory change (|rs| = .27–.76), and an overall greater burden of memory change on everyday living (|rs| = .28–.61) were associated with poorer objective memory performance and lower self-reported memory ability and satisfaction. Performance on objective measures of executive attention was unrelated to the impact of memory change. Self-reported strategy use was positively related to positive coping with memory change (|r| = .26), but self-reported strategy use was associated with more negative emotions regarding memory change (|r| = .23). Conclusions: Given the prevalence of memory complaints among older adults, it is important to understand the experience of memory change and its impact on everyday functioning in order to develop services that target the specific needs of this population.

scholarly journals With Age Comes Wisdom

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 1375-1380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrell A. Worthy ◽  
Marissa A. Gorlick ◽  
Jennifer L. Pacheco ◽  
David M. Schnyer ◽  
W. Todd Maddox
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Independent Task ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Way

In two experiments, younger and older adults performed decision-making tasks in which reward values available were either independent of or dependent on the previous sequence of choices made. The choice-independent task involved learning and exploiting the options that gave the highest rewards on each trial. In this task, the stability of the expected reward for each option was not influenced by the previous choices participants made. The choice-dependent task involved learning how each choice influenced future rewards for two options and making the best decisions based on that knowledge. Younger adults performed better when rewards were independent of choice, whereas older adults performed better when rewards were dependent on choice. These findings suggest a fundamental difference in the way in which younger adults and older adults approach decision-making situations. We discuss the results in the context of prominent decision-making theories and offer possible explanations based on neurobiological and behavioral changes associated with aging.

Situated Scaffolding for Sustainable Participatory Design

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 (GROUP) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Katerina Cerna ◽  
Claudia Müller ◽  
Dave Randall ◽  
Martin Hunker
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Instructional Support ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Online Activities ◽  
Traditional Understanding ◽  
The Way

An extensive literature on participatory design with older adults has, thus far, little to say about the support older adults need when involved in online activities. Our research suggests that to empower older adults in participatory design, scaffolding work has to be done. Scaffolding interactions - creating temporary instructional support to help the learning of participants - is a common approach in participatory design. Yet, when applied in online participatory design with older adults, the traditional understanding of the concept does not match the way older adults' learn. Hence, we argue for a new understanding of this term, which we call situated scaffolding. We illustrate our argument with a case where older adults collaborate online as part of a participatory design project. We unpack the different dimensions of situated scaffolding and discuss how this novel understanding can be used to further inform sustainable participatory design for and with older adults.

scholarly journals ‘My independent streak may get in the way’: how older adults respond to falls prevention education in hospital

BMJ Open ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. e012363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Hill ◽  
Jacqueline Francis-Coad ◽  
Terry P Haines ◽  
Nicholas Waldron ◽  
Christopher Etherton-Beer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Falls Prevention ◽  
Prevention Education ◽  
The Way

Interrelations between Subjective Health and Episodic Memory Change in Swedish and Canadian Samples of Older Adults

2003 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Å Wahlin ◽  
Scott B. Maitland ◽  
Lars Bäckman ◽  
Roger A. Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Longitudinal Change ◽  
Subjective Memory ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Memory Change ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Kungsholmen Project

Recent research has documented associations between subjective health ratings and objective indicators of disease and death. Less is known about relations between subjective health ratings and level of cognitive performance in older adults. In this study, we explored whether subjective health ratings are related to episodic memory performance, both concurrently and across a three-year longitudinal interval. Persons aged 75–84 years, and participating in the Swedish Kungsholmen Project ( n = 105) or the Canadian Victoria Longitudinal Study ( n = 71), were examined. Results showed that in both samples, while the cross-sectional relationship was non-significant, longitudinal change in perceptions of subjective health were related to change in episodic memory performance. Next, the two samples were combined in additional analyses. Here, results further revealed that the associations between longitudinal change in subjective health and memory performance generalized across samples independently of demographic, changing physical health status, and subjective memory decline differences. Thus, the present findings suggest that subjective health may be added to the growing number of individual-difference variables that are predictive of episodic memory change in very old age.

scholarly journals Recollection-related hippocampal fMRI effects predict longitudinal memory change in healthy older adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. 107537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingzhu Hou ◽  
Marianne de Chastelaine ◽  
Manasi Jayakumar ◽  
Brian E. Donley ◽  
Michael D. Rugg
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Healthy Older Adults ◽  
Memory Change

The Effects of Strength Training on Memory in Older Adults

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margie E. Lachman ◽  
Shevaun D. Neupert ◽  
Rosanna Bertrand ◽  
Alan M. Jette
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Strength Training ◽  
Memory Span ◽  
Digit Span ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Experimental Treatment ◽  
Resistance Level ◽  
Memory Change ◽  
Home Based ◽  
And Control

The authors examined whether resistance training has an effect on working memory span. Participants included 210 community-residing older adults with at least one disability from the Strong for Life program, a randomized controlled trial that examined the effects of home-based resistance exercise. Memory was assessed with the WAIS backward digit span at baseline and 3 and 6 months into the intervention. Although there were no differences between the experimental treatment and control groups in average levels of memory change, within the treatment group change in resistance level during the intervention was a significant predictor of memory change, controlling for age, education, sex, and disability level. The results suggest that strength training can benefit memory among older adults, especially when using higher resistance levels.

scholarly journals Elder Nutrition

EDIS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda B Bobroff ◽  
Martie Gillen
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Nutrition And Diet ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
The Way

Older Floridians, their families, and communities face many issues related to aging. This 8-page fact sheet focuses on the way aging affects nutrition and diet, and choices that older adults can make to improve or maintain their health and well-being as they age. Written by Linda B. Bobroff and Martie Gillen, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, revised March 2018.  http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fy628

scholarly journals Exploitation of Outgoing and Incoming Telephone Calls in the Context of Circadian Rhythms of Social Activity Among Elderly People: Observational Descriptive Study (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothée Aubourg ◽  
Jacques Demongeot ◽  
Hervé Provost ◽  
Nicolas Vuillerme
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Circadian Rhythms ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Telephone Call ◽  
Older Population ◽  
Communication Time ◽  
Telephone Calls ◽  
Call Detail Records ◽  
The Way

BACKGROUND In the elderly population, analysis of the circadian rhythms of social activity may help in supervising homebound disabled and chronically ill populations. Circadian rhythms are monitored over time to determine, for example, the stability of the organization of daily social activity rhythms and the occurrence of particular desynchronizations in the way older adults act and react socially during the day. Recently, analysis of telephone call detail records has led to the possibility of determining circadian rhythms of social activity in an objective unobtrusive way for young patients from their outgoing telephone calls. At this stage, however, the analysis of incoming call rhythms and the comparison of their organization with respect to outgoing calls remains to be performed in underinvestigated populations (in particular, older populations). OBJECTIVE This study investigated the persistence and synchronization of circadian rhythms in telephone communication by older adults. METHODS The study used a longitudinal 12-month data set combining call detail records and questionnaire data from 26 volunteers aged 70 years or more to determine the existence of persistent and synchronized circadian rhythms in their telephone communications. The study worked with the following four specific telecommunication parameters: (1) recipient of the telephone call (alter), (2) time at which the call began, (3) duration of the call, and (4) direction of the call. We focused on the following two issues: (1) the existence of persistent circadian rhythms of outgoing and incoming telephone calls in the older population and (2) synchronization with circadian rhythms in the way the older population places and responds to telephone calls. RESULTS The results showed that older adults have their own specific circadian rhythms for placing telephone calls and receiving telephone calls. These rhythms are partly structured by the way in which older adults allocate their communication time over the day. In addition, despite minor differences between circadian rhythms for outgoing and incoming calls, our analysis suggests the two rhythms could be synchronized. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest the existence of potential persistent and synchronized circadian rhythms in the outgoing and incoming telephone activities of older adults.

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