Target SOC strategy training at adults whose memory has declined to buffer low-control weeks¶

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 associational), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description¶

The article recommends that "Research and interventions that target adaptive behaviors and beliefs, such as maintaining high perceived control and engaging in SOC strategies may help older adults to adapt to age-related declines in working memory." It identifies participants whose memory has declined as those who may benefit most, framing SOC as a "life management" technique for everyday life and weekly control fluctuations. The strategy is to teach selection, optimization, and compensation skills to this group.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Interventions must target adaptive behaviors and beliefs, including maintaining high perceived control and engaging in SOC strategies.

Constraints¶

• The effortful nature of SOC behaviors may not be beneficial for all individuals with memory decline, such as individuals with dementia or pre-dementia states.

Target Learners¶

• Older adults whose working memory has declined

Target Learning Goals¶

• Adapting to age-related working memory decline and reducing everyday memory problems

Affordances¶

• Soc Life Management Framework Memory Decline

Claims¶

• Low weekly perceived control predicts more memory problems among adults with greater memory decline and low SOC strategy use (three-way interaction) [+W]
• Selection strategies predict fewer memory problems regardless of decline extent; optimization and compensation are adaptive mainly under greater decline [+W]

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Key Sources¶

• Hahn Elizabeth A. Ph.D., Lachman Margie E. Ph.D. (2014). Everyday Experiences of Memory Problems and Control: The Adaptive Role of Selective Optimization with Compensation in the Context of Memory Decline. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4156931/