Week 9 Flashcards
What is a primary goal of clinicians and older adults
Sustaining cognitive vitality
What does sustaining cognitive vitality
Esures independence of older adults
Improves quality of life
Saves cost to healthcare systems
What can the aging brain be considered
Malleable/plastic and thus can be trained to improve cognitive functioning or delay cognitive decline
Where does the evidence of brain mallebility come from
Stroke patients
What is another evidence for brain malleability
Highly educated people experience alzheimers disease much later in life than uneducated people because education related mental activities create cognitive reserves
Indviduals with higher cognitive reserves experience cognitive decline much later in life
What do observational studies show between frequency of mental and cognitive decline
An inverse relationship
What domains are cognitive training is thought stimulate the brain
In memory speed and reasoning
What is the mnemonic techniques
Involves training to encode retain and retrieve information a trained instructor teaches the mnemonic exercises over several weeks
What are some typical strategies of this
Organzing words into categories- for purpose of recalling words
Waving words into coherent stories
Creating visual images of events places and names
What is mindfulness meditation
Meditation is a form of cognitive tranning believed to be capable of delaying cognitive decline in older adults
What is meditation said to do
Perserve brain tissues or reduce tissue decline in the hippocampus leads to tissue gain in the hippocampus also increases gray matter in the brain and improves working memory concentration and attention
What are computer games
Some computer games are a form of brain fitness traning
Level of diffculty is manaully or digitally adjusted
What are three strategies for memory training
Mnemonic techniques
Mindfulness meditation
Computer games
What are three ways to improve reasoning
Games and puzzels
Arts and Crafts
What does reasoning traning focus on
Improving problem solving skills by triggering the mind to focus and think critically and logically
What are some examples of reasoning traning
Puzzels board games but they have to be easy to understand and designes with appropriate levelof difficult
Evidence suggests reasoning traning improves capacity for instrumental activites of daily living
What are some examples of Arts and Crafts have on older people
Createive thinking attenion and concentration serving as a source of mental stimulation
Also known to increase intellectual functiong and delay the onsent of dementia
Foster social connection and improve emotional wellbeing
What about processing speed traning
Focuses on improving abilities for multi-tasking required activites such as driving
What is the driving simulator traning
Particpants are trained on practiced driving sessions on a computer over several weeks
What do trained particpants often report
Fewer accidents and fewer traffic violations than untrained older drivers indivation superior attention and processing speed
