Technology, cognitive remediation, and nursing: directions for successful cognitive aging.
Many older adults experience cognitive difficulties and declines as a part of normal aging. Nurses and other health care professionals will require assistance in technologies that can help older patients maintain or improve cognition. Cognitive remediation represents a well-established laboratory approach that augments cognitive functioning in older adults. Emerging technologies allow such cognitive remediation to be self-administered through gaming software, making it convenient, fun, and inexpensive to deliver. As such, guiding older patients, as well as some facilities, in this direction may be a way to help. However, certain caveats and suggestions are warranted.
Vance
David E
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School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-1210, USA. devance@uab.edu
McNees
Patrick
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Meneses
Karen
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D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D018910:Video Games