Improving Prospective Memory Performance in Community-dwelling Older Adults: Goal Management Training and Implementation Intentions

Supporting strategic processes can improve time-based prospective memory in the laboratory among older adults with HIV disease.

“…Qualitatively, our impression was that the older HIV+ adults in this study had difficulties learning and using the STOP paradigm. To that point, a recent study demonstrated that brief STOP training exercises may not enhance event-based PM among older adults due difficulties comprehending the instructions and using the technique (Fine et al, 2019). Given the well-documented deficits in learning associated with HIV disease (e.g., Doyle et al, 2019), future studies may therefore strive to provide more comprehensive and effective training on the use of the STOP paradigm, perhaps using retrospective memory boosters (e.g., self-generation, retrieval practice) that have shown to improve recall in HIV (e.g., Avci et al, 2017; Weber et al, 2012).…”