The intellectual abilities of late adulthood could change, grow or decline in some areas for the cause of parts such as their functional age, environmental, cultural factor, biological as well as their accomplishment of integrity or gerotranscedence. In late adulthood individual intellectual abilities are based on their cognitive functions, those abilities with sub categories. The subcategories are assessed by perception, thinking, remembering, communicating, orienting, calculating and problem solving. It’s also based on a memory types such as long time and short term memory as well as the episodic memory. Cognition is said to be a mental activity with the ability to process information, awareness, thinking, remembering ect… Memory decrease
