ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book illustrates how a strategy perspective can help us understand cognitive aging. It focuses on the possibility that differences in the cognitive performance might be associated to strategy differences should always be taken into account. It would thus be interesting to try and determine whether any differences in relationships between personality and cognitive performance during aging are mediated by strategic variations. The book defends the strategy perspective as a way of characterizing and understanding cognitive aging, that could also be more systematically applied in pathological aging than it currently is. It illustrates with reference to a particular form of dementia, dementia of Alzheimer type. The book presents the diagnostic criteria for this disease, as well as a few illustrations of the cognitive deficits that it produces.
