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The Role of Spousal Biobehavioral Co-regulation in Everyday Collaborative Memory: Identifying Targets for Intervention

Award Number: R01AG062527
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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Project Summary/Abstract Significant work demonstrates the influence of spouses on one another’s emotions, behaviors, and health- related outcomes. What is not understood is the role partners play in cognitive development, change, and adaptation in middle and later life. Because researchers have not identified the biobehavioral mechanisms and processes that couples employ as they navigate normative and non-normative (i.e., mild cognitive impairment, dementia) cognitive aging, development of effective behavioral interventions to maintain and bolster performance is impeded. Prospective memory (PM), or memory for future actions, is essential to health and safety (e.g., remembering to take medication or turn off a stove) and ultimately, the ability to age in place. To remain in their homes, older adults must maintain this critical memory skill. The proposed research will identify behaviors of middle-aged and older adults when they collaborate on PM tasks and determine how those behaviors and the accompanying stress response affect PM. The central hypothesis underlying this research is that significant others are inherently involved in daily memory tasks and exert substantial “partner” effects, which positively (e.g., compensation) and/or negatively (e.g., retrieval interference, increased stress) influence PM outcomes. To test the hypothesis, this research addresses four specific aims: 1) Determine the effects of individual and dyadic characteristics on collaborative PM performance in laboratory and real-world contexts, 2) Investigate social and cognitive behaviors exhibited during the collaborative process to determine the impact of dyadic behaviors on PM performance, 3) Identify the concomitant effects of partners’ stress responses and ability on collaborative PM performance, and 4) Investigate biobehavioral processes and corresponding performance within a clinical subsample of dyads for whom one partner has MCI or early-stage dementia. The research is significant because it systematically examines the commonplace (but unstudied) phenomenon of partner interactions to identify the socio-cognitive and physiological processes important to PM and how these biobehavioral pathways may differ for couples experiencing non-normative cognitive change. The work is innovative because it includes measurement of dyadic attunement and incorporates investigation of spouses who experience cognitive change at different rates and thus are faced with the need to compensate for a partner who is struggling with the cognitive tasks of daily life. The proposed research is essential to achieving our goal of developing behaviorally-based interventions to enhance critical everyday memory behaviors and promote independent living.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $547,946 )
2024	2024	IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	1350 BEARDSHEAR HALL	AMES	IA	50011	STORY	USA	Aging Research	000	5	4/18/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$547,946
														Subtotal = $547,946

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $589,377 )
2023	2023	IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	515 MORRILL RD, 1350 BEARDSHEAR HALL	AMES	IA	50011	STORY	USA	Aging Research	000	4	4/4/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$589,377
														Subtotal = $589,377

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $554,065 )
2022	2022	IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	515 MORRILL RD, 1350 BEARDSHEAR HALL	AMES	IA	50011	STORY	USA	Aging Research	000	3	4/7/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$554,065
														Subtotal = $554,065

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $439,609 )
2021	2021	IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	515 MORRILL RD, 1350 BEARDSHEAR HALL	AMES	IA	50011	STORY	USA	Aging Research	000	2	4/13/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$439,609
														Subtotal = $439,609

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $408,621 )
2020	2020	IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	515 MORRILL RD, 1350 BEARDSHEAR HALL	AMES	IA	50011	STORY	USA	Aging Research	000	1	5/29/2020	NEW	$408,621
														Subtotal = $408,621

Grand Total All Awards = $2,539,618

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The Role of Spousal Biobehavioral Co-regulation in Everyday Collaborative Memory: Identifying Targets for Intervention

Award Number: R01AG062527

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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