WEDNESDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- It's common for seniors
to struggle to recall a word that's on the tip of their tongue,
a new study shows. University of Michigan researchers found that
this type of memory lapse occurred in 61 percent of 105 healthy,
highly educated older adults aged 65 to 92. The participants
filled out a checklist of the memory errors they made in the
previous 24 hours and underwent several other tests. About half
of them reported making errors that may be related to
absentmindedness, such as forgetting where they placed an item
or having to reread a sentence because they forgot what it said.
The study was published online in the journal Aging,
Neuropsychology, and Cognition. The findings may help brain-
training programs target memory problems that older people
experience in daily life, rather than those that occur in
laboratory tests, said senior study author and psychology
professor Cindy Lustig. "We wanted to identify which errors
still occur despite changes people might be making