This mind-stimulating book offers tools and resources to strengthen mental functioning. Targeted brain fitness activities work to exercise many areas of cognition, such as memory, attention, focus, visual-spatial processing, and sequencing. These activities are fun - and appropriately challenging. And just like any good workout, the benefits ......
Wake up someone s brain with every turn of the page in this delightfully engaging resource. Featuring evocative images of children, this picture book for adults is to be shared between a family (or professional) caregiver and a person with memory loss to encourage meaningful emotional connections and conversations through therapeutic brain ......
Shows how research can be applied to help people with nonprogressive memory disorders improve their functioning and quality of life. This book offers guidance on how to assess patients, set treatment goals, develop individualized rehabilitation programs, and conduct memory groups. It provides knowledge on nature and causes of memory impairment.
This book reveals how the authors' findings from their research in psychology, neuropsychology, special education, and medicine can help clinicians assess and remediate reading and attention disorders.
Provides an overview of the major theories and research on human memory. Grounded in the premise that all psychological processes depend on memory, and that memory is shaped by how people use it, the authors look at the brain-based memory process and discuss the major theories that have been developed to explain how memory functions.
With the goal of alleviating the paucity of knowledge about advanced dementia, and helping to improve the care and services that are increasingly needed for the growing numbers of people living with dementia-type diseases, this book provides evidence-based measurement scales for use by researchers and care providers who are seeking to improve our ......
Here's a moving introduction to the innovative Best Friends approach to caring for older people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia's. This touching 20-minuted DVD "showcases the Best Friends (TM) approach in action at a model adult day center volunteer program" and includes the Alzheimer's Disease Bill of Rights.
Few things are so essential to our lives as our memories. This text offers a wide-ranging view of the subject, examining how memory has been investigated in the past, what modern studies of the brain can tell us, and how drugs, alcohol, anxiety and Alzheimer's can effect it.
