Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t7czq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-22T23:21:26.843Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Everyday Memory for Everyday Tasks: Prospective Memory as an Outcome Measure Following TBI in Older Adults

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2012

Glynda J. Kinsella
Glynda J. Kinsella*
Affiliation:
Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Australia; Psychology Department, Caulfield Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. [email protected]
*
*Address for correspondence: Glynda Kinsella, Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia.
Get access

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury in older adults is an increasing problem in our aging community. Traditional functional outcome measures, such as return to work or academic achievement, as used with younger samples following traumatic brain injury are of limited use for older people. Although challenging to assess reliably, evaluation of prospective memory is gradually being included in outcome assessments following traumatic brain injury in younger samples and may be a useful index of cognitive competence in everyday life when assessing older adults following traumatic brain injury.

Keywords

prospective memoryoutcome assessmentstraumatic brain injuryolder adults
Type
ASSBI Presidential Address 2009
Information
Brain Impairment , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , 01 May 2010 , pp. 37 - 41
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)