This app offers a psychometrically solid self-reported screener to give an idea of whether the person in question should seek full testing. This screener has been divided into 3 categories of likelihood based on sound data at the creation of the screener and discriminatory analyses is choosing the questions. Additionally, the app creator published a separate article examining the psychometric properties of this scale using a sample of patients that were either confirmed as normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment, or dementia after a full neuropsychological battery.
In addition, this offers brain exercises specifically designed to target 5 domains of cognition, perceptual motor function, executive function, complex attention, language, learning and memory. The sixth major domain, social cognition, is better suited using the lifestyle exercises and “homework” offered in this app as well.
This app offers months work of lifestyle exercises to keep the body and mind in sync. It also puts forth homework exercises that emphasize the use of cognitive faculties in both every day life, but also put in the world to encourage learning and memory as well as socialization, which is infinitely important to mental and cognitive health. These exercises can be repeated every 3-6 months, thereby, minimizing any learning or practice bias and employing creativity by both the individual, the family, and/or caretakers. Finally, and importantly, this app offers a plethora of diet and cognition information that will be continuously updated for the greater good of the public, backed by research by experts in the given disciplines.
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