Memory compensation strategies in everyday life: similarities and differences between younger and older adults.

ABSTRACT: Memory compensation strategies serve an important role in everyday functioning, especially in the face of cognitive decline. Research on the external memory compensation strategies employed by older adults has focused almost entirely on non-digital tools. Less is known about how memory compensation strategies might have changed due to the rapid and widespread uptake of digital technologies. In the current research, 208 younger adults and 114 older adults freely reported what internal or external memory strategy or tool they would use to accomplish 20 different everyday memory tasks. Participants' responses were coded as involving either internal (e.g. using a mnemonic) or external (e.g. writing a list) strategies, and then underwent further categorisation to classify types of internal and

SUBMITTER: Radnan MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10209053 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature