The article “Aging and the production effect: a test of the distinctiveness account”, written by Olivia Lin and Colin MacLeod focuses on the issue of distinctive productiveness through saying words aloud and its benefits for improving the remembering among older adults. Taking into consideration various findings, the authors foreground the advantages of the production effect, which helps to ... read more

In the modern – day world, widely accepted assumptions about intimacy and sexuality in later life are being challenged. The authors provide profound research arguing that that the desire for closeness and sex can endure for a lifetime. Considering the limitations of research on sexual activity of older adults, health care professionals cannot adequately identify and satisfy the needs of olde... read more

Nowadays demographic changes result in the US being an aging society as the rest of the world (Quinn-Szcesuil, 2012). It implies the necessity of additional gerontological health care, long-term care, support programs for the elderly, etc. Economic burden of these changes is accompanied by the shortage of educated professionals and adequate institutio... read more

Sensation and perception are crucial for enabling us to establish contact with the outside world. The former is generally defined as the process of delivering information from the surrounding world to the body and to the brain (Myers, 2009). This process is considered to be passive because one does not have to consciously engage himself into the process of “sensing.” Generally, any discussio... read more