Brain Games For Seniors

Deposit (c) 2008 SharpBrains

The World-wide Economique Forum asked me to write "a 800 summary of words of your liable idea of pursuits more irresistible on the major challenges and gerontology", in the preparation for the Inaugural Summit of the Global Program intervenes November 7 to ninth in Dubai.

Here you have my suggestion to create a Global Consortium for the Health of Brain and Innovation and the formation assistance guarantees that "No Brain Is Behind Party" :

I. The Context

- Growing of the Ask on Our Brains: Imagine 6.7 billion Brains Primitive living a Corporation of Knowledge where the erudition of the whole life and mastery the constant change in the complex environments is critical for the productive work, health and the personal accomplishment.

Welcome to the Earth of Planet, 2008.

- More stretched by the increased longevity: Now the close picture to 1 billion these brains on the age of 60 - and remembers please that, less than 100 years ago, life expectancy was between 30 to 40 years. The Corporation quickly of Knowledge in evolution places new and huge the ask on our human brains "primitive". And the longest our lengths of life, the most evident one it "the cognitive gap". Therefore, from the standpoint of health, the predominance growing disease of Alzheimer and his Soft one of forerunner Decrease Cognitive. And, from the standpoint of place of work, the perception that the oldest workers cannot learn from new turns, and are to be substituted by the youngest immediately employees than practical.

- The Meaning of neuroplasticity of the whole life: The good new one are this research of important brain shows how our brains keep neuroplasticity of the whole life (the capacity of our brains to remake itself the electric installation of reply to test), how they physically can be strengthened -through the Cognitive/It Reserves Brain- and its functions improved, opening the manner to the slowdown so does not reverse the cognitive decline that is furnished with often. To use it and Improve the can be more precise than THE Uses or The Loser, and help near to grow it the cognitive gap. The humans can become the gardeners of our own brains while setting up itself on four pillars: a well stable system, an exercise, a direction of tension and the physical brain cardio-vasculaire exercises that incorporates the well directed novelty, the variety and the challenge.

- Neuroscience and the Cognitive neuropsychologies are ready to increase: a number growing based research frameworks and the applications that the present clarifyes the occasions of principal current, nevertheless they poorly often are understood, since they are presented in the fragmentary manners and disconcerting. To think about the potential one to have an annual one "the mental examination" that helps the series on a basis and identifies fitting interventions. To think about to be able to specify specific needs and improves, in the manners non-invasifs, the functions of specific neurocognitive, as the speed of visual and auditory treatment, working the memory, the framework functions, the emotional self-regulation, the attention.

II. The Problem

- We need the bridges: It seems there to have multiple sectors of disconnects between gerontology, the preventive medical services neurosciences and the general and cognitive neuropsychologies. Innovative partnerships and in collaboration will be demanded to transform the quantity growing interest of principal current and the research conclusions in a rational approach, interdisciplinaire and viable to the health of neurocognitive.

- Growing the confusion among the consumers and trade people: there is not "the magic pills" or "the general solutions", but the very useful when used tools with appropriate. The better evaluations, the taxonomies and the research efforts integrated is demanded for the field to ripen. Some brain functions tend to improve as let us age us, while someone tend to decline. For example, as the frameworks approach a lot of difficult positions progressively, we grow an "intuition" (or the model recognition crystallized) for the better approaches. Provided that the environment does not change also quickly, we can continue to accumulate wisdom. But some sectors to work mental typically the decline. We see of ordinary one this in the sectors that try our capacity to learn and adapt to the new environments, as redsolutiant of problems of effortful in the original positions, treating speed, working the memory, and the attention. The research showed that all these sectors can be improved in the oldest brains. But the priorities are not the same for all individuals, or for all objectives (surer driving, preventing the symptoms of disease of Alzheimer, improving the memory. ..) In the summary, the field holds the a lot of promises, but the picture is complicated.

III. The occasion

- A Global Consortium for the Health of Brain and formation Innovation composed from 100 principal universities, the decision-maker, the services medical/the suppliers of assurance and the contractors of evaluations of neurocognitive technology based and of tools of formation can furnish the taxonomy, the direction and the structure demanded to direct applications of neuroscience and the cognitive neuropsychology in gerontology and geriatrics -and the services

- A transparent online presence could facilitate the engagement of people of trade and the public to big. Especially, yes, of more than 60 brains.

- Exits:

1) the Better practices: to divide better practices in the education of health of preventive brain, the lodging of aineds, the programs of based hospital, the initiatives of conducted assurance, the efforts of public political one.

2) The Norms: to define norms for the evaluations of neurocognitive and the formation tools,

3) The Taxonomy: to establish a taxonomy and a common language,

4) THE Education: to engage people of trade and the public to big in well informed "brain discussion",

5) THE attentiveness of Political one: to foresee the implications of political one and improves attentiveness,

6) the way of Research: to propose a way of research and applications.