title: Improving elderly recall with bimodal presentation: a natural experiment of discharge planning.
abstract: This study's goal was to better explain memory and its decline in a natural setting to improve social work practice among the elderly. The effect that bimodal (verbal and visual) presentation of information has on delayed incidental recall was compared with unimodal (verbal only) presentation. A significant increase occurred in overall recall and verbatim recall. Gist recall improved, but not significantly.
authors.affiliation: Messiah College, Grantham, PA 17027.
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Ressler
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D010351:Patient Discharge