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KEEP YOUR WITS AND HAPPINESS

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Reduce Alzheimer's  Risk by 90 Percent (scroll down)

More than 80 million "boomers" can influence the way attitudes toward aging are right today, or could be in the near future. They can exert clout and  expose  outmoded ageist  misconceptions and attitudes. They can propose that the time has  come to demand respect for each person  as  a true measurement of value throughout a lifetime.

If you are one person who loves the idea of quality of life- regardless of age or physical ability,  get your brain and body in gear, pick up this Practical Post50 Playbook, and read on.

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 The Practical POST-50 Playbook

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HOW THE BRAIN WORKS

Do you need a Fitness Center for Your Brain? There are online tests for speed, accuracy, memory, attention, problem-solving and more. Readers of The Sage Companion  may choose to check how on how you stack up against others of your age. But research http://en.wikipedia.org indicates that  “Higher order thinking involves the learning of complex judgmental skills such as critical thinking and problem solving,”  as per the following:

“The problem,
often not discovered until late in life,
is that when you look for things in life like love,
meaning, motivation,
it implies they are sitting
behind a tree or under a rock.

The most successful people in life recognize,
that in life they create their own love,
they manufacture their own meaning,
they generate their own motivation.

For me,
I am driven by two main philosophies,
know more today about the world than I knew yesterday.
And lessen the suffering of others.
You’d be surprised how far that gets you. "

  Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist

Brain Health & Happiness

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Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, founder and chief director of the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas-Dallas. Chapman is the author of  Make Your Brain Smarter, in which she warns that “multitasking is toxic to your brain and your health.”  

Chapman prefers people to slow down. Give the brain a chance to work.  (The brain’s frontal lobe zips back and forth between chores in a  high-performance demand that slows efficiency, according to Chapman.) Challenge your brain’s creative and analytical ability- try a novel approach- she recommends.  

 “What matters more to me is higher-order thinking:
judgment, reasoning, thinking organically.
That’s what I want people to get better at.”

 

The question of brain fitness comes up - at all ages- in terms of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Here is a mini  expedition based on Bloom's Taxonomy to test.

• 1) Knowledge-  As expressed in such questions as "What are the health benefits of boomers eating broccoli?"
• 2) Comprehension-  As per- "Can you compare the health benefits of eating dark chocolate  and broccoli?"
  
• 3) Application- Can you put this to  "good-use"?  For example- Which kinds of green vegetables are best for stir frying, and why?
• 4) Analysis-  How good are you at listing any number of  ways of preparing main dishes made with carrots and explaining which have the greatest health benefits? Can you use references handily?
• 5) Synthesis - This get a little more complicated: Convert an "unhealthy" recipe for carrot cake to a "healthy" recipe. Explain the wellness benefits available when you replace “unhealthy” ingredients. Explain what the “healthy” ingredients are and what prompted you to chose those as opposed to the original ones.
• 6) Evaluation- Do you feel that serving carrot cake for high tea to people in assisted living is healthy? And reasons.

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What do YOU
really
know about aging?

GO HERE
TO FIND OUT

 INTER-GENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY
The  Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Innovation Awards

Theme: Intergenerational Solidarity- aspiring to the "prospective creation of new designs and initiatives, while promoting a shift in thinking that focuses on the specific needs of an increasingly important population segment...today's [boomer and older adult] population is a dynamic consumer market that expects modern but practical products... programs and services fit for anyone at any age, and a built environment that is accessible and inclusive."

Can We Reduce Alzheimer's  Risk by 90 Percent ?

RESEARCH from OXFORD UNIVERSITY indicates that Vitamins B6, B12 & folic acid can lower levels of homocysteine This may reduce Alzheimer's risk by 90 percent.
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