Becoming forgetful: how elderly people deal with forgetfulness in everyday life.
Becoming forgetful: how elderly people deal with forgetfulness in everyday life.
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10.1177/1533317506292499
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2006-10-01
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Monsch, Andreas U
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作者：
Imhof, Lorenz;Wallhagen, Margaret I;Monsch, Andreas U
研究表明，对健忘的抱怨与记忆障碍的标准化测量之间的相关性很弱。在健康的老年人群中，很少有人注意到这些抱怨。因此，这项定性的、基于理论的研究调查了健忘的经历和后果。对32名参与者进行深度访谈并进行分析。研究结果表明，健忘通过以下三种策略成为日常生活的一部分：(1)降低复杂性；(2)建立和维护日常事务；(3)处理尴尬和羞耻的感觉。经历健忘的人的幸福感取决于他们执行健忘策略的成功程度。对这一过程的深入了解可以让医疗保健专业人员尽早评估这一现象，并进行个性化的咨询和进一步的诊断程序。
Studies show that complaints about being forgetful are weakly correlated with standardized measures of memory impairment. Little attention has been paid to those complaints in a healthy elderly population. Therefore, this qualitative, grounded-theory study investigated the experiences and consequences of becoming forgetful. In-depth interviews with 32 participants were conducted and analyzed. The findings show that forgetfulness became part of daily life through 3 strategies, conceptualized as doing forgetfulness: (1) reducing complexity; (2) creating and maintaining routines; and (3) dealing with feelings of embarrassment and shame. The well-being of people experiencing forgetfulness depended on how successfully they performed the strategies of doing forgetfulness. Gaining insight into this process allows health care professionals to assess the phenomenon early and to individualize counseling and further diagnostic procedures.