[Are memory courses effective?].
After a general overview of the many forms, aims and methods of memory courses, especially in the Netherlands, a strategy-oriented memory course for healthy elderly in a residential home is evaluated. The participants (N = 18) were compared with control subjects from the same home of comparable age, level of education and memory performance. Significant effects of the course could be demonstrated on subjective measures of memory but not on objective and 'ecologically valid' memory tests. Although one could consider subjectively experienced memory improvement as a very satisfactory result of memory courses, the authors state that adjustments to achieve objectively demonstrable progress are both necessary and possible.
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