Interventions to Aid Older Adults’ Functional Abilities By Linda Sasser, PhD* Statistics from the United States Census Bureau indicate that 20% of the population will be 65 years old or older by the year 2050. The numerous sensory, cognitive, and functional declines that often accompany aging may compromise the ability of older adults to live [...]
By Linda Sasser, Ph.D. Can you draw a penny, front and back, including correct placement of the eight critical features? If not, is this an example of forgetting? The experience of not being able to recall something (a person’s name, a fact, an event) may be attributed to a variety of causes. One of the [...]
Finding the Positives in a Significant Change By Linda Sasser, Ph.D. “It will be gone before you know it. The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher. Then suddenly they disappear." Dorothy Evslin One woman was describing her first grocery shopping trip after her youngest child had left for college. She said she reached [...]