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- Title
The Location Learning Test-Revised is associated with informant-reported everyday functioning in a sample of community-dwelling older adults.
- Authors
Thompson, Jennifer L; Bucks, Romola S; Weinborn, Michael; Woods, Steven Paul
- Abstract
Objective Object location learning and memory may be important for older adults to successfully complete some everyday activities. Method This cross-sectional, correlational study investigated the ecological relevance of the Location Learning Test-Revised (LLT-R) in 195 community-dwelling, older adults in Western Australia. The LLT-R assesses object location learning and memory for everyday objects over five learning trials and after a 30-min delay. Knowledgeable informants provided structured ratings of participants' activities of daily living and memory symptoms. Results A greater number of errors on LLT-R total learning trials were associated with mild problems in activities of daily living (particularly in travel and household domains), but not with memory symptoms. The LLT-R's association with activities of daily living was accompanied by a small-to-medium effect size and was not better explained by demographics, global cognitive functioning, mood, or chronic medical conditions. Conclusions Findings provide some support for the ecological relevance of the LLT-R among older community-dwelling adults and suggest that object location learning may play a role in some everyday functioning problems that accompany typical aging.
- Subjects
WESTERN Australia; OLDER people; PROSPECTIVE memory; COGNITIVE ability; ACTIVITIES of daily living; LEARNING; AGING
- Publication
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 4, p527
- ISSN
0887-6177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/arclin/acaa061