Description: The most common memory complaints are concerned with failures of prospective memory, yet this aspect of memory function is rarely assessed formally. What is prospective memory? Prospective memory is the ability to remember to do things at a particular time or within a given interval of time or when a certain event happens. In other words, prospective memory is remembering to do things rather than remembering things that have already happened. For people with brain injury, failures in prospective memory, such as forgetting to take medication, can have devastating effects on everyday life and are likely to threaten independence. Despite its clinical significance, prospective memory has been relatively under investigated, due perhaps to the absence of a suitably objective and standardised clinical instrument, which is able to accommodate activities in daily life as opposed to ‘laboratory’ or computerised tasks that may not reflect real life needs.

Series: CAMPROMPT

Publisher: Pearson Assessment UK

Year Published: 2005

Qualifications: CL2

Grade: Age 16 and older

Components: Includes manual, pack of 25 record forms, quiz question cards, puzzle cards, message card, clock and 2 timers in a bag