Every metro area is served by in-home providers of specialized, non-medical, care services for people who need “assisted living” but don’t want to move to communal housing. Some providers are… Read More »Assisted Living in the home: 20 questions for evaluating in-home care providers
Findings suggest novel ways that aging services providers and home- and community-based care providers can implement VR for their audiences. Do any of these inspire? Adding Virtual Reality Training to… Read More »draft -Evidence for VR benefits in brain fitness + dementia care
She couldn’t remember my name… so I just sang, “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie” and she joined in, belting out, “That’s amoré!” Together we would… Read More »Music Awakens Memory: 10 tips when dealing with dementia
A team of neurobiologists at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute just released a study in which they found that older adults remain more cognitively and emotionally intact than previously… Read More »Healthy older adults can generate as many new brain cells as younger people
British-born Alma, shown here in 2017, had moved to Northern California as a young mother and thought that she’d never again travel to her home town. So I outfitted Alma… Read More »Virtual reality enhances well-being for elders
Eldercare consumers, as 2016 draws near, now’s the time to start demanding that dementia-care providers adapt their techniques, and their staff training, to reflect new scientific findings about brain health… Read More »10 ways to love your brain, from Alzheimer’s Association
Did you know playing ping-pong can mitigate and possibly prevent dementia symptoms? Yes, TABLE TENNIS is the world’s best brain sport. Every assisted living community and memory-care community should provide residents with table tennis equipment.… Read More »Table Tennis: world’s best brain game