Executive Functioning and Working Memory Ability Predict Medication Adherence in a Large Sample of Community-Dwelling Older Adults

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Insel ◽  
D. Morrow ◽  
B. Brewer ◽  
A. Figueredo
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Medication Adherence ◽  
Executive Functioning ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Memory Ability ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Community Dwelling Older Adults

scholarly journals Revisiting the Age-Prospective Memory Paradox Using Laboratory and Ecological Tasks

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Wen Koo ◽  
David L. Neumann ◽  
Tamara Ownsworth ◽  
David H. K. Shum
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Community Dwelling Older Adults ◽  
Age Related Changes

Prospective memory (PM) is the ability to perform a planned action at a future time. Older adults have shown moderate declines in PM, which are thought to be driven by age-related changes in the prefrontal cortex. However, an age-PM paradox is often reported, whereby deficits are evident in laboratory-based PM tasks, but not naturalistic PM tasks. The key aims of this study were to: (1) examine the age-PM paradox using the same sample across laboratory and ecological settings; and (2) determine whether self-reported PM and cognitive factors such as working memory and IQ are associated PM performance. Two PM tasks were administered (ecological vs. laboratory) to a sample of 23 community-dwelling older adults (Mage = 72.30, SDage = 5.62) and 28 young adults (Mage = 20.18, SDage = 3.30). Participants also completed measures of general cognitive function, working memory, IQ, and self-reported memory. Our results did not support the existence of the age-PM paradox. Strong age effects across both laboratory and ecological PM tasks were observed in which older adults consistently performed worse on the PM tasks than young adults. In addition, PM performance was significantly associated with self-reported PM measures in young adults. For older adults, IQ was associated with time-based PM. These findings suggest that the age-PM paradox is more complex than first thought and there are differential predictors of PM performance for younger and older adults.

scholarly journals Association of psychological, cognitive, and functional variables with self-reported executive functioning in a sample of nondemented community-dwelling older adults

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 364-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica P. Meltzer ◽  
Ashu Kapoor ◽  
Joshua Fogel ◽  
Milushka M. Elbulok-Charcape ◽  
Robert M. Roth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Executive Functioning ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Community Dwelling Older Adults
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