What Is It?
Dementia describes a range of cognitive symptoms that affect daily living. Dementia is commonly associated with the elderly, as memory and other thinking skills start to decline in old age or after a brain injury. Depending on the severity of dementia, some symptoms may be improved. With the right non-pharmaceutical therapy, you can help your patient “re-wire” their brain to help them compensate in daily life.
What Can Be Done for Dementia Patients?
Studies show that occupational therapy shows great success for dementia patients struggling with cognitive impairments impacting their daily lives.
A study by the Official Journal of the American Academy of Neurology found that:
Reactivating occupational rehabilitation (memory training, manual/creative activities, improving sensorimotor functions, and self-management therapy) proved more efficient in improving cognitive performance, psychosocial functioning, emotional balance, and subjective well-being than functional rehabilitation (functional occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and speech therapy).
Our tool provides a non-stressful environment for your patients through online occupational therapy activities that can be used with dementia patients. We know that not all patients are the same, and that each patient experiences different levels of complications. For this reason, we have incorporated a unique range of difficulty so that all patients can be successful at their own speeds.
Cognitive Stimulation for Dementia
can Target the Following Cognitive Skills
Executive Function The ability to enable goal-oriented behavior, cognitive flexibility, and emotional regulation. Learn More → Language Skill to be able to translate sounds into words and generate verbal output. Learn More → Attention The ability to focus on tasks and details in order to complete and use them. Learn More → Audition The ability to hear, process, blend, segment, and use sounds to shape behavior. Learn More → Processing Speed Enables you to perform tasks quickly and accurately. Learn More → Visual-Spatial Skills Ability to process incoming visual stimuli, understand spatial relationships between objects, and visualize images and scenarios. Learn More → Visual Memory Work on the ability to process, encode, store and retrieve visual information. Learn More → Verbal Memory The ability to remember something written or spoken that was previously learned. Learn More → Spatial Memory Enables you to store and retrieve of information needed to plan a route to a desire location. Learn More →
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