• Family caregiver decision meetings for spouses and adult children of frail, memory impaired elders: These are approximately 2 hour sessions to provide information and discuss options about how to keep the older adult safe but as independent as possible. Other topics include techniques to cut down on repetitive questions from memory impaired adults (e.g., spaced retrieval) and recommendations for improving cognitive fitness based on available research evidence.
• Training and consultation to organizations involved with the care of older adults.
- Dr. Hartman-Stein offers lectures and workshops on the following:
• What Baby Boomers can do to stay healthy in late life
• Preventing and treating depression
• Identifying and treating dementia
• Coping with care-giving
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Latest Events:
-- Instructing "Maximum Memory Fitness"
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
at Summa Akron City Hospital
Akron, Ohio
Click here for more information.
-- Nature Writing Workshop
Thursday, June 20, 2013
at Plum Creek Park Pavilion #2
Kent, Ohio
Click here for more information.
-- Discussion of the Book Proof of Heaven
Thursday, July 25, 2013
at Center for Healthy Aging
Kent, Ohio
Click here for more information
-- Instructing "Reflective Writing for Improving How You Feel and How Well You Remember"
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
at Summa Akron City Hospital in Akron, Ohio
Click here for more information.
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Enhancing Cognitive Fitness in Adults has been included in Books of Interest in the Human Values in Aging Newsletter, AARP Office of Academic Affairs, April, 2013
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On February 1, 2013, Dr. Hartman-Stein was interviewed on Dr. Todd Finnerty's podcast, "Mental Health Day." The topic was "Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies, Healthy Aging."
Click here to listen to the podcast free of charge.
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Slides from Webinar Available for Free:
On February 8, Dr. Cameron Camp and Dr. Paula Hartman-Stein led a webinar entitled "Appropriate Use of CPT Coding in Treatment of Persons with Memory Impairment." Click here to open a PDF of the slides for free.
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"Exercise can sometimes reverse memory loss, study finds" The Plain Dealer - April 23, 2013
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- "The sooner you start exercising, the more you might remember. A recent study by the Department of Psychology at Kent State University shows that physical activity and exercise play a crucial role in actually reversing some memory loss."
Read the rest of the article here.
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Positive Aging Tips
From Manfred Diehl, Ph.D. (Co-Chair, APA Committee on Aging)
May is Older Americans Month, so it's a great time to get in the habit of doing these 10 tips year-round. You can read and download the list here.
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Community Cognitive Reserve: "Sarah's Web"
by Richard Owen Geer, Ph.D.
Community Performance International
Arvada, Colorado
To read Dr. Geer's piece about senior living communities, please
click here.