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The "Useful Apps Club"
Unlock the potential of your smartphone or tablet to improve your life.
The Useful Apps Club is for older adults and Boomers who have a smartphone or tablet (or are thinking of getting one) and need help to turn it into a useful tool. We are focused on finding Apps that can change your life, and teaching you how to use them. .........Read more
The Top Modifiable Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease
This article describes the top modifiable Alzheimer's risk factors, and explains what you can do to reduce them. Currently there are no truly effective disease-altering treatments for Alzheimer's, and by 2050 13 million Americans are predicted to have Alzheimer's. The good news is that a number... .........Read more
My Plans for Avoiding the Terror of Short Term Memory Loss
My mother has severe short term memory loss. As her caregiver, I have found that her short term memory impairment has many adverse consequences. My experience with my mother has made me concerned about how I could avoid the horrors that come with short term memory loss when it inevitably hits... .........Read more
Cognitive Dimensions of Healthy Lifestyle Habits for Seniors
Most seniors understand that active lifestyle habits have a significant influence on the quality of life in later decades. Chronic diseases of the neurological, cardio-vascular and endocrine systems can often be delayed or potentially avoided altogether by consistent exercise routines and... .........Read more
Brain Health Discussion @ Sequoias SF
This group discussed brain health, using our interview card deck as a discussion guide. Interesting opinions and insights into various aspects of brain health and memory. .........Read more
Helping Memory Impaired People Engage with Others
One member spoke of the isolation engulfing his wife as her dementia advances. She can no longer do email but does enjoy Face-time and photo sharing with family and friends. However, she is unable to initiate or even respond to a Face-time call on her own.
The group struggled to fully... .........Read more
Forgetting Names: Does It Mean Alzheimers?
When is forgetting names a warning of Alzheimer’s disease?
It is not necessarily a symptom. Many people, even at very young ages, had difficulty remembering names. It is pretty normal, even without the aging process.
The Pleasanton Senior Center teaches a memory class which is a... .........Read more
Tech to help stay at home as cognition declines
How can seniors be better served by technology? Technology can help with keeping a calendar and reminders of appointments or medication times.
And what about that senior with memory issues who wanders off from time to time? How can technology help her?
There are human implantable... .........Read more
Brain Fitness: Starting the Discussion
Explorers at San Francisco Village take the first steps in a serial exploration of how best to maintain brain fitness as we grow older. .........Read more
Memory Aids Invented, Discussed @ SSF
Explorer Shirley starts the conversation by musing over the types of things that help reinforce her memory, such as people wearing name tags. .........Read more
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Unforgettable is an e-commerce website focused tightly on products for people with dementia, as well as for caregivers of such people.
Alzhup is a non pharmaceutical approach to treatment of the symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease. It is intended to delay cognitive impairment using such personalized memorabilia as life history photos and music customized to each user.
Hasbro Joy for All companion pets are designed to provide company to persons who may be at risk for loneliness or isolation.
TeleCalm is a service that seeks to solve the phone-based problems that tend to arise with persons who have diminished cognitive capacity. It blocks calls not from a pre-approved white list of callers.
WeTraq is for seniors, especially those with dementia or Alzheimer's
GyroGear has developed a glove that incorporates a gyroscope intended to cancel hand tremors.
OrCam is a wearable Artificial Intelligence which is designed to mount on a pair of glasses, gather a visual signal, and read that signal to the wearer.
Heratrack is a wrist band for tracking seniors with dementia.
Dakim's product is a brain training "application" on a computer. It is said to exercise various areas of the brain for long-term memory, short-term memory, language, computation, visuospatial orientation and executive function.
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