McKnight's November 17, 2021
Older adults with mild dementia can improve their ability to complete everyday tasks and enhance quality of life by using smartphone memory aids, a new study finds.
Investigators coached 52 older adults with mild cognitive impairment or early dementia on how to use a digital voice recorder application and a reminder app on their smartphones. After four weeks, study participants reported improvements in performing daily tasks that they had intended to accomplish, according to Michael K. Scullin, Ph.D., of Baylor University in Texas, and colleagues.
The more often participants used the digital recorder or reminder apps, the better their measures of memory and improvements in activities of daily living. Notably, when assigned tasks by the investigators, they tended to...
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