Fostering Self-Management of Everyday Memory in Older Adults: A New Intervention Approach.

ABSTRACT: Traditional memory strategy training interventions improve older adults' performance on tests of episodic memory, but have limited transfer to episodic memory tasks, let alone to everyday memory. We argue that an alternative approach is needed to assist older adults to compensate for age-related cognitive declines and to maintain functional capacity in their own natural ecologies. We outline a set of principles regarding how interventions can successfully train older adults to increase successful goal pursuit to reduce risks of everyday memory failures. We argue that training individuals to use metacognitive self-regulatory strategies to proactively manage formulation and pursuit of daily goals can compensate for age-related cognitive changes and increase the likelihood of goal attainment.

SUBMITTER: Hertzog C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7817715 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature