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| Younger-old and older-old adults' recall of medication instructions |
| Author(s) | Leslie McDonald-Miszczak, Shevaun D Neupert, Gloria Gutman |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 24, no 4, Winter 2005 |
| Pages | pp 409-418 |
| Source | http://www.utpjournals.com |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Learning capacity ; Cognitive processes ; Young elderly ; Over 70s ; Comparison ; Canada. |
| Annotation | 71 younger-old adults (aged 57-74) and 62 older-old adults (aged 75-89) recruited from a Vancouver community made judgments about the likelihood of their recalling medication instructions and about their confidence in their recall. The results indicate that older-old adults recall fewer instructions than do younger-old adults, and that both groups overestimate their ability to recall the instructions. The research - which expands previous research - suggests that problems remembering to take medication may be due, in part, to older adults' of overestimating the ease with which they will remember medication instructions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070110206 A |
| Classmark | LLD: DE: DA: BBA: BBK: 48: 7S |
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