Dealing with Memory Changes As You Grow Older: A Wise and Reassuring Guide to Memory Maintenance for Seniors, Their Families and Friends [Paperback]

Separate the facts from the fears about memory loss.
 
For many older people and their families, the fear of progressive memory loss is the chief anxiety about aging. To them, lapses that younger people would laugh off as distraction may seem the early symptoms of an inevitable decline into senility. The good news is that most of these fears are unfounded. Kathleen Gose, a social worker, and Gloria Levi, a gerontologist, both have had years of experience working with older adults. They developed Dealing with Memory Changes to provide upbeat, practical answers to seniors’ most pressing questions:
 
• What memory changes are normal with age?
• How does memory work and what conditions other than age can affect it?
• How does age affect intelligence and the ability to learn?
• What are the best strategies for remembering everyday details—such as house keys, shopping lists, and names?
• What signs indicate a need for help?
 
Plus, invaluable information on how memory is affected by nutrition, depression, stress, prescription drugs, alcohol, exercise—and much more.INTRODUCTION
 
 
HOW THIS HANDBOOK CAME ABOUT
 
Both authors of this book have worked with older adults for many years; Kathy with people in the community, Gloria with people both in the community and in care facilities. We have been struck many times by the concerns and anxieties voiced by seniors about their changing abilities to remember.
 
This led us to explore what has been written about memory and aging, what has been written specifically for older adults on the subject, and what is being done about memory training courses for older people. We discovered that there l£&