s a guide to h keeping your a memory r sharp p
DESCRIPTION
S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P. Agenda. How memory works What affects memory How to keep memory SHARP SHARP Review SHARP Toss / action plan. Can we teach an old dog new tricks?. Teach an old dog new tricks?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
S A Guide toH Keeping YourA MemoryR SHARPP
![Page 2: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Agenda• How memory works
• What affects memory
• How to keep memory SHARP
• SHARP Review
• SHARP Toss / action plan
![Page 3: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Can we teach an old dog
new tricks?
![Page 4: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Teach an old dog new tricks?
We can not only teach an old dog new tricks,
there are probably some tricks that an old dog can learn better.
(Howard McClusky)
![Page 5: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
How Memory Works
• Sensory (milliseconds)
Attention
• Short-term• Working
(seconds, <1 minute)
Encoding• Long-term
(days, months, years)
Retrieval?How to retrieve?
Perception
![Page 6: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
What Affects Memory• Sleep• Stress• Dehydration• Diet• Alcohol• Medication• Health
• Attention• Intention• Relevance• Depression• B12 Deficiency• Organization• Beliefs
![Page 7: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Stimulate the Brain
H A R
P
![Page 8: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
How can we stimulate the brain?
![Page 9: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Stimulate brain through mental exercise:
Games:- Cards- Board games- Memory games- PuzzlesChange Routine:- Hair & teeth brushing
with opposite hand- New path on walk or
drive home
Learn:- Interest course- Musical instrument- New hobby- New language- Craft- New recipe- How to book
![Page 10: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Stimulate the Brain Anyone who stops learning is old,
whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps on learning stays young.
The greatest thing in life is to keep the mind young.
Henry Ford 1863 - 1947
![Page 11: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Stimulate the brain Healthy body healthy brain
![Page 12: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
If I knew I was going to live this long,
I would have taken better care of myself
![Page 13: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Magic Pill
• Concentration• Memory • Energy• Sleep• Stress level
• Mood
• Appearance
• Self-esteem
• Mobility
• Get your engine running
![Page 14: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
The engine of life
Healthy Body/Brain
• Fuel – Nutrition
• Tuned-up - Activity
• Maintenance - Stress Management
![Page 15: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
EatDrink
Be Merry & Healthy
![Page 16: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Nutrition What do we eat and drink for health?
Eat, drink &Be healthy
![Page 17: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Nutrition for your Brain• Drink 8 glasses of water• Fruit, veggies, fiber• Omega 3’s• Limit saturated fat• Whole grains• Reduce inflammatory foods• Select from power foods
![Page 18: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Activity
What physical activity do you do?
How can you fit extra activity in to your regular routine?
![Page 19: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Healthy Body / Health Brain•
Activity
![Page 20: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Brain Gym
![Page 21: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Sharpen the Saw
![Page 22: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Stress Damages• Memory• Concentration• Distorted thinking• Poor time management• Irritability• Insomnia• Low resistance to colds
• Coronary, circulatory & respiratory disorders
• Headaches• Poor energy level• Aches & pains• Anxiety• Depression
![Page 23: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Stress Management
What can you do to
manage and release stress?
![Page 24: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Healthy Body Needs
Nutrition
Activity
Stress Management
![Page 25: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Guided Visualization
![Page 26: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Nutrition & Stretch Break
![Page 27: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
S H A
![Page 28: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
SH Aid it
![Page 29: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Aid Memory - Pay attention - Organize yourself
- Write it down - Associations - Rehearse
![Page 30: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Aid Memory: Chunking Acronym Rhyme or jingle Visual image Acrostic / Sentence Method of loci
![Page 31: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Relate to others
![Page 32: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Relate to Others - Slows memory decline
- Can prevent memory decline
- Less likely to develop dementia
- Enhances well being
![Page 33: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
How can you get
out there & relate more with
others?
![Page 34: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Stimulate it
Healthy body
Aid it
Relate
P
![Page 35: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Positive Outlook
You can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. (Anonymous)
![Page 36: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Stimulate it
Healthy body
Aid it
Relate
Positive outlook
![Page 37: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
S H A
R P
![Page 38: S A Guide to H Keeping Your A Memory R SHARP P](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062501/56816731550346895ddbdcea/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
S H A What will you
R take home?
P