Discuss ways that family members—and the larger community— can support older persons who experiencing some cognitive decline.
Description As Cavanaugh and Blanchard-Fields (2015) discuss in Chapter 6 of the text, numerous studies have found that some memory systems and other cognitive processes are affected more than others by age-related changes in brain functioning. Episodic memory, for example, is affected more in old age than semantic memory, which appears to be relatively spared. […]