1. Late Adulthood: Cognitive Development
Part VII
Chapter Twenty-Four
Late Adulthood: Cognitive Development
The Aging Brain
The Usual: Information Processing After Age 65
The Impaired: Diseases That Affect the Brain
The Optimal: New Cognitive Development

2. The Aging Brain Brain Slowdown Evidence from Neuroscience
Using More of the Brain
Multitasking

3. The Usual: Information Processing After Age 65
Input
Awareness of the Loss
Interference
Memory
Working Memory
Long-Term Memory

4. The Usual: Information Processing After Age 65
Control Processes
Retrieval, Not Storage
Reminding People of What They Know
Output
Health and Well-Being
Training
Ecological Validity

5. The Impaired: Diseases That Affect the Brain
Dementia and Age
Alzheimer Disease
Genes and Alzheimer Disease
Stages: From Confusion to Death
Vascular Dementia
Other Dementias

6. The Impaired: Diseases That Affect the Brain
Prevention and Treatment
Reversible Impairment
Mental Illness
Other Causes
A CASE TO STUDY: Drug Addiction in a Grandmother

7. The Optimal: New Cognitive Development
Erikson and Maslow
Aesthetic Sense and Creativity
The Life Review
Wisdom