Improving Your Memory: How to Remember What You're Starting to Forget
“The finest handbook we’ve seen on the subject.” —AARP Magazine

Appliances and car lights turn themselves off. Smartphones and laptops remind us of appointments. Google lets us search for information we can’t remember. Yet with all these advances, we still grow frustrated and anxious when words won’t come, when we misplace items, or when we forget the name of the person in front of us.

Now, University of Michigan social workers Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern have completely updated their friendly, practical guide to memory improvement techniques, many of which can provide immediate results. Recognizing that people worry something is wrong with them when they forget things, they suggest that the antidote to worry is taking positive action to help us remember what we want to remember. They provide tools for understanding and improving memory, including sixteen helpful exercises. Simple techniques like writing information down, creating a catch word or phrase, altering something in your environment, and reviewing details in advance can put you actively in charge of retrieving information more easily.

As in previous editions, Improving Your Memory reinforces memory techniques through real-life examples. This accessible handbook also discusses how memory works; how it changes with age, stress, illness, and depression, and why people remember what they do.

“One of the most complete memory training guides available . . . This volume has clearly emerged from considerable practical experience with conducting memory courses.” —Contemporary Gerontology
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Improving Your Memory: How to Remember What You're Starting to Forget
“The finest handbook we’ve seen on the subject.” —AARP Magazine

Appliances and car lights turn themselves off. Smartphones and laptops remind us of appointments. Google lets us search for information we can’t remember. Yet with all these advances, we still grow frustrated and anxious when words won’t come, when we misplace items, or when we forget the name of the person in front of us.

Now, University of Michigan social workers Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern have completely updated their friendly, practical guide to memory improvement techniques, many of which can provide immediate results. Recognizing that people worry something is wrong with them when they forget things, they suggest that the antidote to worry is taking positive action to help us remember what we want to remember. They provide tools for understanding and improving memory, including sixteen helpful exercises. Simple techniques like writing information down, creating a catch word or phrase, altering something in your environment, and reviewing details in advance can put you actively in charge of retrieving information more easily.

As in previous editions, Improving Your Memory reinforces memory techniques through real-life examples. This accessible handbook also discusses how memory works; how it changes with age, stress, illness, and depression, and why people remember what they do.

“One of the most complete memory training guides available . . . This volume has clearly emerged from considerable practical experience with conducting memory courses.” —Contemporary Gerontology
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Improving Your Memory: How to Remember What You're Starting to Forget

Improving Your Memory: How to Remember What You're Starting to Forget

by Janet Fogler, Lynn Stern
Improving Your Memory: How to Remember What You're Starting to Forget

Improving Your Memory: How to Remember What You're Starting to Forget

by Janet Fogler, Lynn Stern

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Overview

“The finest handbook we’ve seen on the subject.” —AARP Magazine

Appliances and car lights turn themselves off. Smartphones and laptops remind us of appointments. Google lets us search for information we can’t remember. Yet with all these advances, we still grow frustrated and anxious when words won’t come, when we misplace items, or when we forget the name of the person in front of us.

Now, University of Michigan social workers Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern have completely updated their friendly, practical guide to memory improvement techniques, many of which can provide immediate results. Recognizing that people worry something is wrong with them when they forget things, they suggest that the antidote to worry is taking positive action to help us remember what we want to remember. They provide tools for understanding and improving memory, including sixteen helpful exercises. Simple techniques like writing information down, creating a catch word or phrase, altering something in your environment, and reviewing details in advance can put you actively in charge of retrieving information more easily.

As in previous editions, Improving Your Memory reinforces memory techniques through real-life examples. This accessible handbook also discusses how memory works; how it changes with age, stress, illness, and depression, and why people remember what they do.

“One of the most complete memory training guides available . . . This volume has clearly emerged from considerable practical experience with conducting memory courses.” —Contemporary Gerontology

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781421415710
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 02/03/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 168
Sales rank: 706,078
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern are clinical social workers at the University of Michigan Medical Center's Geriatrics Center Clinics and Turner Geriatric Clinic.

Table of Contents

I. How Memory Works
1. You Can Improve Your Memory
2. Understanding the Components of Memory
3. How We Remember
4. Why We Forget
5. Let's Review
II. How Memory Changers as We Age
6. What Changes? What Doesn't?
7. Problem with Encoding
8. Problems with Recall
III. Factors that Affect Memory
9. You and Your Memory: A Self-inventory
10. Check Your Effort and Attitude
11. Could Your Mood Be the Problem?
12. Ask Your Doctor about Health Issues
13. Let's Review Again
IV. Techniques for Improving Your Memory
14. Exploring Memory Improvement Strategies
15. Improving Your Ability to Encode
16. You Don't Have to Keep Everything in Your Head
17. Did I or Didn't I?
18. Remembering More Than One Thing
19. Improving Your Ability to Recall
20. General Tips for Remembering
Appendix: Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
Answers to the Exercises

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