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Beschreibung
  • Reduce stress, improve focus and memory recall
  • Fuel your body with the right foods
  • Keep your mind stimulated with brain games

Improve your cognitive performance

Maintaining and improving your brain's health is vital to your quality of life--a fact that becomes more important as you age. This essential guide offers tons of helpful information and tangible steps you can take to keep an active mind throughout your life.

Inside...

  • Improve language skills
  • Recognize faces
  • Remember directions
  • Solve puzzles and riddles
  • Search word scrambles
  • Boost your memory
  • Manage and reduce stress
  • Unleash your creativity
  • Eat cognitive superfoods
  • Reduce stress, improve focus and memory recall
  • Fuel your body with the right foods
  • Keep your mind stimulated with brain games

Improve your cognitive performance

Maintaining and improving your brain's health is vital to your quality of life--a fact that becomes more important as you age. This essential guide offers tons of helpful information and tangible steps you can take to keep an active mind throughout your life.

Inside...

  • Improve language skills
  • Recognize faces
  • Remember directions
  • Solve puzzles and riddles
  • Search word scrambles
  • Boost your memory
  • Manage and reduce stress
  • Unleash your creativity
  • Eat cognitive superfoods
Über den Autor

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) is a nationwide, not-for-profit society of geriatrics healthcare professionals dedicated to improving the health, independence, and quality of life of older people.

The Health in Aging Foundation is a national non-profit organization established in 1999 by AGS to bring the knowledge and expertise of geriatrics healthcare professionals to the public.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

Part 1: Getting Started with Staying Sharp 5

Chapter 1: Training Your Brain 7

Chapter 2: Improving Your Language Skills 23

Chapter 3: Sparking Your Creativity 31

Chapter 4: Recognizing Faces and Remembering Directions 41

Chapter 5: Getting a Handle on Brain Games 49

Chapter 6: Puzzles 63

Part 2: Boosting Your Memory 111

Chapter 7: Cultivating Your Memory Skills 113

Chapter 8: Discovering How Your Brain Remembers 127

Chapter 9: Memory Tricks and Tips 147

Chapter 10: Keeping Your Memory Sharp as You Grow Older 157

Chapter 11: Schooling Memory 171

Chapter 12: Honing Your Long-Term Memory 185

Chapter 13: Improving Your Short-Term Memory 197

Chapter 14: Keeping Your Memory Intact in a High-Speed World 209

Part 3: Managing Stress: Relaxing Mind and Body 221

Chapter 15: Understanding Stress 223

Chapter 16: Relaxing Your Body 257

Chapter 17: Stress-Reducing Organizational Skills 279

Chapter 18: Meditation 101 301

Part 4: Improving Your Lifestyle: Nutrition and Exercise 331

Chapter 19: Eating, Exercising, and Getting Your Zzzs 333

Chapter 20: Maintaining a Healthy Weight and Fitness Level 357

Chapter 21: Considering a Plant-Based Diet 381

Chapter 22: The Skinny on Superfoods 407

Part 5: Healthy Aging 431

Chapter 23: The Four Major Health Concerns as You Age 433

Chapter 24: Evaluating Your Health and History and Setting Goals for Wellness 477

Chapter 25: Stroke Risk Factors and Prevention 499

Chapter 26: Don't Worry, Be Happy: The Keys to Maintaining Health and Vitality 531

Part 6: The Part of Tens 549

Chapter 27: Ten Ways to Make Your Home Safer as You Age 551

Chapter 28: Ten (Plus) Almost-Superfoods that Can Help Round Out Your Diet 559

Index 567

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Andere Fachgebiete
Genre: Importe, Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781119187790
ISBN-10: 1119187796
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: American Geriatrics Society (Ags)
Health in Aging Foundation
Hersteller: Wiley
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 235 x 191 x 33 mm
Von/Mit: American Geriatrics Society (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.04.2016
Gewicht: 1,151 kg
Artikel-ID: 104260215

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