Enhancing Cognitive Fitness in Adults A Guide to the Use and Development of Community-Based Programs /
Enhancing Cognitive Fitness in Adults A Guide for Use and Development of Community-Based Programs Paula E. Hartman-Stein and Asenath La Rue, editors One of the major milestones of aging research is the concept that dementia is not a one-cause, one-effect disorder. From this realization, scores of re...
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
2011.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Part I: Research Foundations of Brain Fitness Interventions
- Brain plasticity in aging and early-stage dementia
- Lessons learned from training interventions
- Part II: Community-Based Programs to Enhance and Sustain Healthy Aging
- Memory enhancement strategies: What is known, and what is new?
- Keys to a Sharp Mind: Results of a model program designed by retirees in an independent living community
- The Odyssey program: Friendly competition to boost cognitive fitness
- Spelling Bees for Older Adults: Creating an old fashioned cognitive–social event in your community, or Why does the AARP host a nationwide spelling contest for people over 50?
- Intergenerational schools: Educational models for the future?
- Programs emphasizing engagement in the arts
- TimeSlips and other narrative therapies: How story telling helps older adults
- Home and cognitive fitness: Utilizing "Posit Science," electronic games, and Internet programs at home, in senior centers, and in retirement communities
- Exercise and cognitive fitness in late life: Recommendations from an exercise physiologist
- University Without Walls for seniors: Use of teleconferencing to reduce isolation and increase cognition
- Part III: Cognitive Wellness Interventions for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment
- Helping the older adult with mild cognitive impairment
- Programs that caregivers can implement: What Maria Montessori knew about helping frail elders
- How can speech therapy promote cognitive skills
- The role of medications and supplements.
