Feasibility and Acceptability of a Remote Sleep–Dependent Memory Assessment in Older Adults With Cognitive Concerns: Pilot Cross-Sectional Study
Clara Cher Yi Tan, Aaron Lam, David Ireland, Dana Bradford, Nathan Cross, Melvern Ted Kurniawan, Simone Simonetti, Jurgen Fripp, Sharon L Naismith · 2026
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Clara Cher Yi Tan leads a 2026 pilot study of the Sleep Memories app, a phone tool that tests how sleep helps memory in older adults. The app uses a 32-item word-pairs task done in the evening and again the next morning. Participants were patients aged fifty and over at a specialist brain health and memory clinic in Sydney, Australia, many with concerns about their thinking.
The clinic invited 141 people over eight months, and 76 agreed to take part. Sixty-eight finished at least one test, and 57 percent finished both the evening and morning recall tests. Willingness to join was lower in people with lower thinking scores and poorer sleep. Users mostly liked the app, though some reported minor technical problems.
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| CREATOR | Clara Cher Yi Tan, Aaron Lam, David Ireland, Dana Bradford, Nathan Cross, Melvern Ted Kurniawan, Simone Simonetti, Jurgen Fripp, Sharon L Naismith |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 69119 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |