Correlation between memory ability and age in older adults

It is important to point out that old age is a substantive state, which is reached by a chronology of biological events, whose most visible and experiential manifestation is the functional wear and tear of daily life. In this article we identified the correlation between memory and age in the elderly, evaluated by means of the MINI-MENTAL test. Methodology: non-experimental, exploratory, observational research with correlational analysis. Contribution: in a sample of 19 participants, a moderate negative correlation was found between age and memory in older adults with an average of 78 years of age. Therefore, it is interpreted that the older the age, the lower the memory ability with an r = 0.05 and a p = 0.05 of reliability.