ABSTRACT

Background

There is bourgeoning interest in how older adults remember their falls and research in this area has demonstrated how falls can reshape memory retrieval in older adults. We pursued this line of research by assessing whether older adults succeed in integrating memories of falls into their life story.

Methods

We invited older adults to remember their falls and analyzed whether these memories were integrated or non-integrated.

Results

Analysis demonstrated no significant differences between the number of integrated and non-integrated memories. Critically, however, higher anxiety and depression was observed in participants who produced non-integrated memories than in those who produced integrated ones.

Discussion

The ability to integrate memories of falls in older adults is likely associated with anxiety and depression. Anxiety may result in avoidance of processing of the meaning of falls, and depression may hamper the ability to extract meaning from them, resulting in difficulties for older adults to integrate falls into their life story. Non-integrated memories of falls in older adults may be seen as unresolved memories and deserve special clinical attention.

中文翻译：

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坠落的记忆：已解决还是未解决的记忆？

摘要

背景

人们对老年人如何记住跌倒的兴趣日益浓厚，该领域的研究表明跌倒如何重塑老年人的记忆恢复。我们通过评估老年人是否成功地将跌倒的记忆整合到他们的生活故事中来进行这一研究。

方法

我们邀请老年人记住他们的跌倒并分析这些记忆是整合的还是非整合的。

结果

分析表明集成和非集成存储器的数量没有显着差异。然而，至关重要的是，产生非综合记忆的参与者比产生综合记忆的参与者的焦虑和抑郁程度更高。

讨论

整合老年人跌倒记忆的能力可能与焦虑和抑郁有关。焦虑可能会导致避免处理跌倒的意义，而抑郁可能会阻碍从中提取意义的能力，导致老年人难以将跌倒融入他们的生活故事。老年人跌倒的非综合记忆可能被视为未解决的记忆，值得临床特别关注。