Another study looked at a few other things and found that knowledge of memory and everyday function improves with education. This took a different tack completely. Instead of training people specifically on memory strategies they took a broader perspective on coping strategies and learning about memory; how it works and doesn’t work sometimes, how we age well, what healthy lifestyle things we contribute to aging. This was done in five weekly two hour sessions on a small group of 36 participates and 24 controls and found that greater pretest to post-test change on reports of everyday memory function. Increased knowledge.