title: Remembering: forget about forgetting and train your brain instead.
abstract: As people age, they often become increasingly concerned about their inability to remember names and faces or recall specific words. As their memory seems to decline, they worry about developing Alzheimer's disease. Yet, new research suggests that for most aging adults, failing to remember is because of an overload of information and difficulty in trying to sort through a cluttered "database." Brain-training programs based on evolving research, as well as increased opportunities to reflect on healthy aging experiences, offer important possibilities for working with clients concerned about memory problems.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA. jsorrell@gmu.edu
authors.forename: Jeanne M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sorrell
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000523:psychology; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D007360:Intelligence; D020407:Internet; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D011340:Problem Solving; D017010:Reminder Systems; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D012153:Retention, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology