Optimizing cognitive interventions to improve real-world function for healthy older adults.
Healthy aging requires acquiring new functional skills for adaptation in a dynamic environment. Cognitive interventions with older adults have largely focused on improving broad cognitive abilities, aiming for transfer to functional effects. By contrast, interventions focusing directly on acquiring...
| Published in: | European Journal of Ageing Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 1 - 10 |
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Springer Nature
3/24/2025
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