An edited and organized collection of articles and news reports from the Mempowered website, on the subject of age-related cognitive decline. The booklet (60 pages) includes the following topics:

• Memory in normal aging
• The Seattle Longitudinal Study of Adult Intelligence
• Why do some cognitive processes decline with age?
• How cognitive function declines
• Rate of cognitive decline
• Extent of cognitive decline
• Specific failures:
  •   Word-finding problems
  •   Tip-of-the-tongue experiences
  •   Forgetting to do things
  •   Vulnerability to distraction
  •   Source memory failures
• The positive side of age-related cognitive change