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In accordance with the neuroplasticity beliefs, several moves have been made aimed at improving cognition and mental deterioration via the reinforcement of social interaction skills, exercising cognitive abilities, participating in physical trainings and adopting healthy living methods (Granic, Lobel & Engels, 2014).
Training exercises have proved very helpful on the cognitive abilities of aged people especially in the areas of memory, reasoning, attention, cognition, multitasking, information processing speed and operational memory (Jak, Seelye & Jurick, 2013; Anguera et al., 2013; Hampstead et al., 2012).
Merging video games with these training schemes is an approach which is enjoying huge attention even though it has not been conclusively proven scientifically to truly boost cognitive abilities of its patients. A recent comprehensive study discovered that in situations where individual skills such as attention, problem solving and memory are exercised singly, it causes significant improvements in the trainees though these improvements were restricted to the exercised skills (Ballesteros et al., 2015). Therefore, the real question here is if these improvements can affect the other skills which were not trained thus causing a general improvement in the cognitive abilities of the aged population.
Researches on mental exercises indicate that playing intensive video games could improve a number of perceptive and mental skills such as changing tasks, short-term visual recollection, sight and vision-related perception, mental rumination over objects and personal action command for both young and aged persons alike (Bavelier et al., 2012; Ballesteros et al., 2015). Despite this, several other researches could not identify any associated improvement in mental ability or the identified improvements were negligible or in some cases, the improvements were more in the younger ones and not the aged group (Kuhn et al., 2014; Lampit, Hallock & Valenzuela, 2014). A good example is Owen et al. (2010) who carried out trainings for 11,430 persons over a period of 6 weeks with emphasis laid on cognitive exercises aimed at enhancing memory, visuospatial strength, reasoning, organization as well as attention but despite their thoroughness, they couldn't identify any improvement in cognitive ability separate from the exercised skills.
Intensive video games have shown promise in aiding perceptual and cognitive skills, however, several of…
dementia disorder and how healthcare professionals embrace theories, research and practical strategies, in order to help dementia sufferers cope with their difficulties. Behavioral and Psychological symptoms in primary care Doctors, nurses, other healthcare professionals and caregivers are challenged when it comes to the care of patients suffering from dementia. That is because dementia is frequently accompanied by a variety of neuropsychiatric symptoms, according to a peer-reviewed article in the journal Mental
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self-absorption. This becomes a time of self-reflection and if all bodes well a time of increased creativity (Erickson & Erickson, 1997). However, should there be increasing family or financial stress, if there has been problems with their husband or children or they find themselves with looming bankruptcies, the likelihood of depression increases tremendously (Robinson, et.al., 2001) and the maladaptations of overextension and rejectivity (Erickson & Erickson, 1997) can lead