Older Patients Benefit from Technology.

• Position: COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT

Older adults with dementia or mild cognitive impairment often struggle to remember dally tasks, including managing medications, shopping for groceries, and tracking upcoming events, including birthdays, anniversaries, or doctor appointments.

In a study involving researchers at the University of Missouri, Baylor University, and the University of Texas, older individuals were trained on how to use a personal assistant application on their smartphones to provide reminders for these tasks.

"We were successfully able to train the adults to use the technology, and also the adults that used the personal assistants the most had the best memory performance," says Andrew Kiseli-ca, assistant professor in the MU School of Health Professions. "Some people may have had doubts about if we could train these older adults with cognitive impairment to...