Naturalistic prospective memory performance in older adults: the role of cognitive resources and training

Diplôme Thèse Naturalistic prospective memory performance in older adults: the role of cognitive resources and training eng 2021-04-13 author Luetke Lanfer Sarah Susanne 865792 director Kliegel Matthias 761733 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:151772 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1517726 FPSE 775 PM refers to the process associated with remembering to perform delayed intentions and increases in importance with advancing age. Naturalistic PM studies conducted in everyday life of healthy older adults are underrepresented and rare. To aim at this gap, the present dissertation focused on the question of what factors contribute to successful naturalistic time-based PM performance in real-life of healthy older adults. Three studies were conducted investigating the role of controlled cognitive resources and training (here: implementation intention and task-switching training) on PM in the second half of adulthood. With adherence rates far from perfect, the current work underlines the need of research on naturalistic time-based PM in real-life of older adults. Furthermore, two factors were identified that influenced naturalistic PM: controlled cognitive resources (here: task-switching and processing speed) and implementation intention strategy training. For the latter, however, effectiveness was only found for older adults with lower controlled cognitive resources. Prospective memory Older adults Process-based Implementation intentions Regular health behaviour Dewey 150 Dewey 618.97 14 Centre interfacultaire de gérontologie et d'études des vulnérabilités 0D6 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 633 Cognitive Aging Lab (CAL) 42a39c3e-5d41-49ec-9de7-9726a8b1c08d Thesis Private Thesis_LütkeLanfer_S_2021_final.pdf 1534574 application/pdf ddf9fae023a6f3d909c610c6fd34b2ebf87383305dbdefe4940d5184167d9984 closedAccess Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire de gérontologie et d'études des vulnérabilités Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

Title	Published in	Access level	OA Policy	Year	Views	Downloads

Naturalistic prospective memory performance in older adults: the role of cognitive resources and training				2021	673	0

Archive ouverte UNIGE

Luetke Lanfer, Sarah Susanne