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Julie D Henry¹, Alexandra Hering², Simon Haines²

¹School of Psychology.

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Older adults showed memory improvements with combined restorative and compensatory prospective memory (PM) interventions. However, these gains did not transfer to untrained cognitive tasks or everyday functioning.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience of Aging
Gerontology

Background:

Prospective memory (PM) is crucial for independent living and often declines in older adults.
Understanding effective interventions to support PM in aging populations is vital.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the effectiveness of different prospective memory (PM) interventions for older adults.
To determine if interventions lead to improvements in trained PM tasks, near transfer, and far transfer effects.

Main Methods:

Older adults were randomly assigned to Restorative, Compensatory, Combined, or Active Control PM intervention groups.
Intervention effectiveness was assessed on trained PM tasks, untrained PM tasks (near transfer), and cognitive/everyday functioning measures (far transfer).

Main Results:

Restorative and Combined interventions significantly improved performance on the trained PM task.
Only the Combined intervention showed improvement on near transfer PM tasks.
No intervention demonstrated significant far transfer effects to untrained cognitive abilities or daily functioning.

Conclusions:

Combining restorative and compensatory approaches is an effective strategy for enhancing prospective memory (PM) function in older adults.
Interventions targeting a single cognitive ability, even PM, do not reliably produce far transfer effects to untrained domains.
Achieving transfer effects to untrained cognitive domains remains challenging, even when addressing specific memory concerns of older adults.