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Consumers/clients: Aging Mind
Mind: Orientation toward the future, planning
	Viard, Armelle, et al, "Mental Time Travel into the Past and the Future in Healthy Aged Adults: An fMRI Study", Brain and Cognition, February 2011 (Vol. 75, No. 1)
		http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02782626 The authors relay the results of brain scans of older adults taken when they remembered past personal events and envisioned future plans.
Mind: Mental illnesses
Mind: Mental exercise
Mind: Aging process (mental, neurological)
Mind: Attitude / Emotion / Happiness
Mind: Decision-making style
	Chen, Yivvei, et al, "Age Differences in Trade-off Decisions: Older Adults Prefer Choice Deferral", Psychology and Aging, June 2011 (Vol. 26, No. 2)
		http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/pag/26/2/269/ The authors come up with results that may be significant for advisers: older people are more likely than younger people to put off multiple-choice decisions, and also more likely not to regret it.
	Hansson, Patrick, et al, "Adult Age Differences in the Realism of Confidence Judgments: Overconfidence, Format Dependence, and Cognitive Predictors", Psychology and Aging, September 2008 (Vol 23, No. 3)
		http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=main.doiLanding&uid=2008-13050-005, Free The authors find that older adults exhibit more overconfidence in decision-making, but may compensate for it with greater knowledge.
	Marion, Jack, "Can Seniors Make Wise Decisions?", Integrative Adviser, August 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 2)
		http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0102.pdf, Free Analyzes recent literature, concluding that decision-making powers probably do get worse for some other-wise normal seniors. More research is needed on both the magnitude and tim-ing of age impaired decision-making as well as developing ways to cope with the impairment.
	Mata, Rui, et al, "Learning to Choose: Cognitive Aging and Strategy Selection Learning in Decision Making", Psychology and Aging, July 2010 (Vol. 25, No.2)
		http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=browsePA.volumes&jcode=pag The authors report that in their tests older adults showed poorer decision performance compared with younger adults. In particular, older adults performed poorly in an environment favoring the use of a more cognitively demanding strategy.
	Reed, Andrew E., et al, "Older Adults Prefer Less Choice than Young Adults", Psychology and Aging, September 2008 (Vol 23, No. 3)
		http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2008-13050-018 Older adults demonstrated a distinct preference for fewer choices than younger adults, in six different domains tested by the authors.
	Torke, Alexia M., et al, "Substituted Judgment: The Limitations of Autonomy in Surrogate Decision Making", Journal of Internal Medicine, September 2008
		http://www.springerlink.com/content/m732r10050300047/?p=0e390451d64247feb2dd28382851974b&pi=36 The authors argue that the use of “substituted judgment” where advance directives have not been provided is “insurmountably flawed” and that alternatives (of which they suggest two) should be considered.
Mind: Other / general / not specified
	Allemand, Mathias, et al, "Long-term Correlated Change in Personality Traits in Old Age", Psychology and Aging, September 2008 (Vol 23, No. 3)
		http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=main.doiLanding&uid=2008-13050-006 The authors report on personality changes over a 12-year span in a group of adults initially aged 60-64.
	Psychology and Aging
		American Psychological Association http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=browsePA.volumes&jcode=pag Psychology and Aging publishes original articles on adult development and aging. Such original articles include reports of research that may be applied, biobehavioral, clinical, educational, experimental (laboratory, field, or naturalistic studies), methodological, or psychosocial.
	Cohen, Gene D., Creative Age, The: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life
		Harper Paperbacks, 2001, $17.95 http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Age-Awakening-Potential-Second/dp/0380800713/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288204527&sr=1-2 Cohen, director of the Center on Aging, Health, and Humanities at George Washington University, outlines different ways in which people can be creative and stimulating in the face of adversity, in the context of relationships, or with changing opportunities as one ages.
	Shiota, Michelle N., and Levenson, Robert W. , "Effects of Aging on Experimentally Instructed Detached Reappraisal, Positive Reappraisal, and Emotional Behavior Suppression", Psychology and Aging, December 2009 (Vol.24, No. 4)
		http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&id=D34022C7-9D46-7196-7F20-52C8E3C649C9&resultID=1&page=1&dbTab=pa This study revealed age-related decline in ability to implement detached reappraisal, enhancement of ability to implement positive reappraisal, and maintenance of ability to implement behavior suppression, as methods of regulating emotional reactions.