Meditation practice using the Waking Up app can significantly shift awareness of self and conscious experience in older adults.

“And has spent a lot of time over the last few years. He's in his late 70s. He's almost 80. He's a theoretical physicist walking to the park near his apartment and spending time meditating with the app. Or sometimes separate from the app but using the same sorts of meditations in his head. So he kind of toggles back and forth. And even-- I shouldn't say-- even but-- yes, even in his late 70s, has reported that it has significantly shifted his awareness of self and his conscious experience of things happening in and around him.”