Background Aging is one of the most important public health issues. The World Health
Organization (WHO) expects the number of older adults aged 65 and above to triple from …

The tendency to recall events from one's past in a non-specific and overgeneral way has
been found to predict the onset and severity of a range of emotional disorders. Memory …

Abstract Memory Specificity Training (MeST) is an intervention developed from basic
science that has found clinical utility. MeST uses cued recall exercises to target the difficulty …

Background Depression is highly prevalent and considered as the most common psychiatric
disorder in home-based elderly, while study on forecasting depression risk in the elderly is …

Background The goal is to investigate prognostic factors for change in memory test
performance in healthy older adults and to report and discuss the different statistical …

Reminiscence and conversation between older adults and younger volunteers using past
photographs are very effective in improving the emotional state of older adults and …

Coping is a strategic approach to dealing with stressful situations. Those who use proactive
coping strategies tend to accept changes and act before changes are expected. In contrast …

The narrative mindset is a tendency to interpret social information in the frame of stories.
Two experiments were conducted to determine if and why the narrative mindset increases …

Autobiographical memory specificity (AMS) reduces with increasing age and is associated
with depression, social problem-solving and functional limitations. However, ability to switch …

Background: The ability to retrieve specific autobiographical memories decreases with
cognitive aging. This decline is clinically relevant due to its association with impairments in …