FUNCTIONAL SKILLS TRAINING
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS TRAINING
Helping older adults overcome the challenges of technology.
Harvey et al. Current Psychiatry (2020)
SUMMARY
Technology is pervasive, and for many people, it is central to their daily activities. Younger people who have been exposed to technology for their entire lives take this for granted, but older individuals often have had much less experience with it.
Some of the key conclusions are that clinicians should not assume that their patients have learned the skills required to actively participate in health care that requires the use of technology; that treatment for normal age-related cognitive changes is available with computerized cognitive training and that technology-based skills need to be taught separately from interventions that focus on cognitive enhancement.
