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Minding your memory: Not all memory issues are cause for concern

Everyone experiences the occasional "senior moment" as they age. You may misplace everyday items, fail to recall the name of someone you just met, or forget to do something. While these memory slips can be embarrassing and stressful, they usually don't mean that you are on a path to dementia.

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By age 60, more than half of adults have concerns about their memory. However, minor memory lapses that occur with age are not usually signs of a serious problem, such as Alzheimer’s disease, but rather the result of normal changes in the structure and function of the brain. This report, Improving Memory: Understanding age-related memory loss, describes these normal age-related changes and other more serious causes of memory loss — and how to distinguish between them.

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Improving Memory

Featured content:

•	What is memory?
•	How we remember
•	Forgetting: What's normal?
•	How memory changes with age
•	Memory impairment: Normal aging or brain disease?
•	... and more!