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Take care of your mind
The mind, like the body, needs regular exercise. Stay in mental shape.
Prevention activities
The brains retain plasticity throughout their lives, so with appropriate exercises we can maintain their vitality and take care of our autonomy and quality of life as long as possible.
Help for people with dementia
People with dementia need an approach that requires a lot of adaptation and special features in communicating with them. Get information on what activities can embellish their moments and keep cognitive abilities in good condition as long as possible.
Maintain the vitality of your mind
The brain obtains plasticity and, even in the third life cycle, are sensitive and perceptible to the effects of cerebral exercise.
Strengthening memory or mental activity
Numerous studies indicate that our memory can be strengthened, improved to a certain extent, and in particular slowed down its decline. Preventive action works in both mild and already advanced dementia.
Strengthening sensory-motoric skills or sensory-motoric activity
Sensory perceptions and motor skills go hand in hand: with senses we perceive, with movements we act. We use exercises to strengthen our mental abilities, manual skills, motoric functions, orientation, balance, speech and perceptions.
Strengthening sensory perceptions or sensory activity
The perception of the environment is through our senses like vision, hearing, type, etc. These perceptions are dispersed in different areas of the brain, so sensory training has multiplier effects (e.g. drawing affects the improvement of thought processes, speech, visual perceptions).
Communication and social activities
Ljudje People are social beings. Conversation and socializing with other people have a positive effect on our mood, especially when we enjoy and get self-affirmation in them.
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strengthening the cognitive abilities for people with dementia
Choose from the wide range of professionally selected activities that will be the closest to your loved ones. You can read tips on how to choose appropriate activities and how to present them to a person with dementia HERE.
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dementia prevention and dementia education
Get more information on prevention and how to make people with dementia more successful and happy through their days.
Meaningful activities for a person with dementia
Each person is worth of dignity, taking care of the weak and sick is therefore very important. People with dementia need caring support and help, but gradually. Dementia is a condition, that develops over a longer period of time. The researches show it takes from 8 to 10 years or more. With different levels of …
Slowing down/Decreasing the process of cognitive decline
Many researches show, that cognitive decline can be affected by us. We cannot stop it completely, but we can always take preventive measures. It is known that these measures are beneficial, if they are done consistently, because they slow down the progression of dementia. We can increase our brain functions with certain activities and we …
Memory strengthening and mind stimulating activities
Many researches have shown that our memory can be strengthen with mind stimulating activities. When people grow old, the memory fades, because of the weakening of the brain functions, but we can prolong this fading by slowing it down. Preventive mind activities are useful in mild and moderate stage of dementia. Different memories are stored …
Communication with a person with dementia
People with dementia are emotionally more vulnerable, so it is especially important how we approach them and how we communicate with them so that they do not intensify their distress. It is important that we affirm a person with a dementia in a conversation or in what he/she wants to communicate, although this is not …
About cognitive decline
Cognitive decline is associated with our cognitive abilities, which are ranked among higher brain functions. The painter’s skill is to distinguish between the color shades, the musician among the various sound variations, the dictionary between words and sentence structures, and the mathematician easily presents mathematical problems in graphs or abstract formulas. Cognitive abilities are the …
Short-term memory
Before information enter short-term memory, they go through the sensory memory or sensory register. This process lasts only a few milliseconds and can embrace a wide range of auditory, visual, sensory and other stimuli. These stimuli go through the filter (we only keep the ones important for us) and we keep or save them for …