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New exercises of cognitive stimulation for cerebral aging and dementia
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 21x29,7
Pages: 392
ISBN: 9788861377431
Publication date: 01/01/2011
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A Gym for the mind 2 offers new activities for patients with mild-to-moderate cognitive decline and for all those people who want to hinder the effects of brain aging, «keeping their mind fit» in a fun way. As the first book, it is the result of a cognitive stimulation programme developed at the Regional Centre for the Study and Treatment of Brain Aging.
In line with the philosophy at the base of the method, the first part, with activities to stimulate conversation, relationships with others, oneself story-telling, states a fundamental concept: the person with dementia is not just a patient in need of care but, above all, a person still able to think, do, suffer and get pleasure from life.
The second part provides support to the various cognitive abilities through exercises with temporal and spatial orientation, visual attention, memory, language, logic and hand-graph skills.
All activities can be proposed individually or in groups by professionals or family caregivers, and can be expanded and modified to suit each person’s specific needs.
Presentation
Preface
Introduction
Ch.1 About me
Ch.2 Orientationin time
Ch.3 Orientationin space
Ch.4 Thevisual attention
Ch.5 Memory
Ch.6 The language
Ch.7 Logic
Ch. 8 The graph-manual abilities
Solutions
The A gym for the mind series is a personalised "gym" with a variety of worksheets and activities designed to effectively train cognitive abilities, helping to delay the effects of cognitive decline in elderly people, and improve their quality of life.
The practical tools provided in the volumes are simple and easy to use, making them ideal for daily use with individuals affected by Alzheimer’s and their families.
The related workbooks series, recently started, is designed to help older people train their mental abilities daily, counteracting cognitive decline and the brain ageing.
A gym for the mind – Volume 1
Cognitive stimulation for cerebral aging and dementia
A gym for the mind – Volume 2
New exercises of cognitive stimulation for cerebral aging and dementia
A gym for the mind – Volume 3
Cognitive-communicative activation programme for cognitive decline
A gym for the mind at the museum
StArt project: an innovative programme of cognitive-communicative stimulation with the visual arts
The volume provides theoretical and practical materials needed to carry out rehabilitation sessions. It has been created to be used both by adults interested in a cognitive-communicative stimulation programme to counteract cognitive decline and by professionals who have been trained in other areas.
A Gym for the Mind series expands its offering with a series of workbooks designed to help older people train their mental abilities daily, counteracting the early signs of cognitive decline and the effects of brain ageing.
Through simple exercises and activities focused on specific topics, combined with colourful images, these workbooks spark curiosity and engagement with new cognitive challenges. Each workbook is structured around a central theme that connects the activities, all written in clear and accessible language to encourage independent use by older people.
Workbooks from A gym for the mind - Food
The text is divided into four sections, each corresponding to a week. Each section explores different courses of a meal: starters, first courses, main courses and sides, fruit, and desserts.
Every week includes a variety of food-related activities, such as word searches, exercises to identify hidden phrases or mistakes, and a final quiz with questions on the topics covered throughout the week.
Leaf through some selected pages from the book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:
