In summary, the results of the current investigation provide evidence for the contribution of two factors to elevated rates of lure false recognition with age: declines in the availability of object details, and impairments in the strategic retrieval and evaluation of these details. Importantly, they also identify two ways in which false recognition can be reduced, including minimizing demands on strategic retrieval processes by increasing environmental support at test, and reducing interference from visual inputs that share common features with to-be-remembered information. The observation that age-related increases in false recognition can be minimized, or even eliminated, in this way may have implications for reducing everyday memory errors among older adults, as well as applications to legal domains such as eyewitness testimony (e.g., sequential vs. simultaneous line-ups; Mickes, Flowe, & Wixted, 2012; Wixted & Mickes, 2014). Finally, the current findings indicate that although false memory errors can increase dramatically and robustly with age, the susceptibility to lure false recognition varies substantially across older adults. Such observations highlight the importance of adopting an individual differences approach to investigations of memory decline in the elderly population.