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Leta
I've heard that some end up in another city. I'm only 47 and I forget things a lot and it scares me.
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You bring up a great question. Someone with Alzheimerâs should not be out wandering the streets, but it does happenâand it generally ends badly. Many nursing homes that serve the dementia population have monitoring systems in place, such as Wanderguard. These systems can also be used in the home environment. It may seem cruel to put a tracking bracelet on someone who isnât a criminal, but it goes a long way in assuring safety.
If you think your memory is weakening, thereâs a lot you can do to strengthen it. While it is unlikely you are currently experience early onset dementia, it wouldnât hurt to keep your mind limber. I recommend a video game called Brain Age. I actually wrote a blog on this a while back for Gilbert Guide, a resource for long-term care. Hereâs an excerpt:
âIn addition to detecting and improving the effects of Alzheimerâs, computerized games can also help keep middle-aged minds agile. Nintendo, a staple of my youth, has come up with a game called Brain Age. The company contends that using the game for only minutes a day and engaging in âcerebral workoutsâ can stimulate the mind enough to actually decrease oneâs âbrain age.â All you need is a Nintendo DS to jump right in and start reading literary classics aloud, solving math problems and drawing from memory, just to name a few tasks. The game was founded in Japan, released as âDr. Kawashimaâs Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?â in Europe and released in the US as âBrain Ageâ in April of 2006. Some skeptics have asserted that improvement in Sudoku is hardly an indication of oneâs capacity to better conduct activities of daily living. One thing is certainâmarketing to baby boomers and seniors is a smart move for a company with vast competition in targeting the teen market.â
Click here to read the rest of the post:
http://www.gilbertguide.com/blog/2007/01/30/detecting-and-improving-your-brain-age/
If you donât see yourself playing video games to strengthen your memory, try sudoku. A little mental challenge goes a long way!
I hope this information helps,
Lori
You bring up a great question. Someone with Alzheimerâs should not be out wandering the streets, but it does happenâand it generally ends badly. Many nursing homes that serve the dementia population have monitoring systems in place, such as Wanderguard. These systems can also be used in the home environment. It may seem cruel to put a tracking bracelet on someone who isnât a criminal, but it goes a long way in assuring safety.
If you think your memory is weakening, thereâs a lot you can do to strengthen it. While it is unlikely you are currently experience early onset dementia, it wouldnât hurt to keep your mind limber. I recommend a video game called Brain Age. I actually wrote a blog on this a while back for Gilbert Guide, a resource for long-term care. Hereâs an excerpt:
âIn addition to detecting and improving the effects of Alzheimerâs, computerized games can also help keep middle-aged minds agile. Nintendo, a staple of my youth, has come up with a game called Brain Age. The company contends that using the game for only minutes a day and engaging in âcerebral workoutsâ can stimulate the mind enough to actually decrease oneâs âbrain age.â All you need is a Nintendo DS to jump right in and start reading literary classics aloud, solving math problems and drawing from memory, just to name a few tasks. The game was founded in Japan, released as âDr. Kawashimaâs Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?â in Europe and released in the US as âBrain Ageâ in April of 2006. Some skeptics have asserted that improvement in Sudoku is hardly an indication of oneâs capacity to better conduct activities of daily living. One thing is certainâmarketing to baby boomers and seniors is a smart move for a company with vast competition in targeting the teen market.â
Click here to read the rest of the post:
http://www.gilbertguide.com/blog/2007/01/30/detecting-and-improving-your-brain-age/
If you donât see yourself playing video games to strengthen your memory, try sudoku. A little mental challenge goes a long way!
I hope this information helps,
Lori
what hopes are there in future earthquake predictions?
lorenz
can someone tell what are new eartquake prediction equipments? or wats going to happen in earthquake prediction industry?
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Basically the scientists need more time and much more knowledge to make any kind of earthquake prediction--we are still constantly finding new fault lines that add to the complexity of even trying to understand what might happen in a region. Weather forecasting has had decades of research to reach the levels that it has and it is far ahead of earthquake forecasting. Mathematical modeling holds the most promise but it needs far more data points and historical information than is available at present. see the quote below
After the setbacks of the 1990s, the field of earthquake prediction seemed to go fallow for a while. But today groups in the USA, Russia, Japan and elsewhere are laying new groundwork for predictions.
First we should be clear about a few terms. A prediction is a statement specifying the time, location and magnitude of an earthquake. The consensus of the 1990s ruled out this kind of true prediction as a fruitful subject of research. Today, anyone doing this is not taken seriously, and you can assume that outfits like Geoforecaster or Syzygy.com are about as reliable as astrology.
Before weather predictions became widely accepted, we had to spend decades learning about climatology, fluid dynamics and the physical laws that govern the ocean and the atmosphere at all scales. We also had to collect immense amounts of historical data and set up satellites to monitor the ocean-atmosphere system. If earthquake predictions are to become as effective as weather predictions are today, we must take seismology to a comparable level. Today's research is aimed at that more fundamental goal, and the nearest that scientists will come to issuing predictions is making long-term and medium-term forecasts on a strictly experimental basis.
Ross Stein of the U.S. Geological Survey champions a promising line of research based on stress triggering that may show where, if not just when, the next earthquake may occur. This kind of knowledge could become useful for long-term preparation, as in Japan's Tokai project.
Other theorists are exploring advanced statistical analyses and subtle patterns of seismic activity that are reminiscent of the behavior of stressed beams. Some formulas appear to have some traction at a very weak level. The Regional Earthquake Likelihood Models (RELM) group organized a contest of earthquake models whose forecasts were published in 2007. It will take many more baby steps like these to gain any ground. But because even the vaguest, most academic forecasts can make people overreact, most researchers don't share them on the Web. Also, history has not been kind to scientists who tried predictions, and science itself has suffered damage. For now, the Web remains the playground of untrustworthy operators.
PS: Even if we could issue earthquake predictions, Stathis Stiros asked the RAS-JAG meeting, should we? In his presentation he argued that earthquakes claim so few lives in Greece these days, it would be cheaper to fix the few unsafe buildings that kill people and avoid the costs of panic, unnecessary shutdowns, and false alarms. Just upgrading the five worst street intersections in Athens would save as many lives as are lost in all of Greece due to earthquakes, he said.
Basically the scientists need more time and much more knowledge to make any kind of earthquake prediction--we are still constantly finding new fault lines that add to the complexity of even trying to understand what might happen in a region. Weather forecasting has had decades of research to reach the levels that it has and it is far ahead of earthquake forecasting. Mathematical modeling holds the most promise but it needs far more data points and historical information than is available at present. see the quote below
After the setbacks of the 1990s, the field of earthquake prediction seemed to go fallow for a while. But today groups in the USA, Russia, Japan and elsewhere are laying new groundwork for predictions.
First we should be clear about a few terms. A prediction is a statement specifying the time, location and magnitude of an earthquake. The consensus of the 1990s ruled out this kind of true prediction as a fruitful subject of research. Today, anyone doing this is not taken seriously, and you can assume that outfits like Geoforecaster or Syzygy.com are about as reliable as astrology.
Before weather predictions became widely accepted, we had to spend decades learning about climatology, fluid dynamics and the physical laws that govern the ocean and the atmosphere at all scales. We also had to collect immense amounts of historical data and set up satellites to monitor the ocean-atmosphere system. If earthquake predictions are to become as effective as weather predictions are today, we must take seismology to a comparable level. Today's research is aimed at that more fundamental goal, and the nearest that scientists will come to issuing predictions is making long-term and medium-term forecasts on a strictly experimental basis.
Ross Stein of the U.S. Geological Survey champions a promising line of research based on stress triggering that may show where, if not just when, the next earthquake may occur. This kind of knowledge could become useful for long-term preparation, as in Japan's Tokai project.
Other theorists are exploring advanced statistical analyses and subtle patterns of seismic activity that are reminiscent of the behavior of stressed beams. Some formulas appear to have some traction at a very weak level. The Regional Earthquake Likelihood Models (RELM) group organized a contest of earthquake models whose forecasts were published in 2007. It will take many more baby steps like these to gain any ground. But because even the vaguest, most academic forecasts can make people overreact, most researchers don't share them on the Web. Also, history has not been kind to scientists who tried predictions, and science itself has suffered damage. For now, the Web remains the playground of untrustworthy operators.
PS: Even if we could issue earthquake predictions, Stathis Stiros asked the RAS-JAG meeting, should we? In his presentation he argued that earthquakes claim so few lives in Greece these days, it would be cheaper to fix the few unsafe buildings that kill people and avoid the costs of panic, unnecessary shutdowns, and false alarms. Just upgrading the five worst street intersections in Athens would save as many lives as are lost in all of Greece due to earthquakes, he said.
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