Keeping and Furthering Autonomy in Nursing-Home Residents: An Overview of Existing Measures

Even if need of care already has occurred, measures of rehabilitation should be provided in order to avoid a progression of disease or worsening of impairment. ...

Are Age Differences in Working Memory Performance the Consequence of Increasing Interference Distractibility?

According to the inhibition theory of aging, lower levels of memory span performance for older than for younger adults results from a more severe ...

Memory Clinics in Southern Germany: Results of a Telephone Survey

The results of a telephone survey conducted with 33 varyingly organised memory-clinics (MC) in Southern Germany (zip codes 7.8 and 9) largely demonstrate consistent methods in the diagnosis ...

Effects of a Multimodal Activity Program in Nursing-Home Residents

Is it possible to maintain or even to enhance functional and cognitive independence in nursing home residents? In literature there is only little information about possibilities and limits ...

Aging Effects in the Extended Version of the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (RBMT-E)

Normal aging is closely associated with memory changes. The extended version of the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (RBMT-E) was developed to identify subtle memory ...