| Scientific Brain Training PRO launches the Aging Well Clinical Cognitive Therapy Program on its Tele-Medicine Platform |
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Santa Cruz, CA, July 27, 2010
The Aging Well program (http://www.scientificbraintrainingpro.com/programs/aging-well) is designed by award winning Dr. Bernard Croisile, MD Neurology, Ph.D. and consists of 23 adaptive cognitive exercises in the form of interactive games. These games have been built to target a particular set of cognitive functions and to heighten patient engagement. Cognitive skills stimulated include memory, attention, language, visual-spatial skills and executive functions. The program framework contains many important features developed specifically for seniors such as larger fonts, larger buttons, touch-screen compatibility, little time pressure and plenty of hints and tips to encourage progress. "Our residents feel their skills are enhanced thanks to their work with the Aging Well program. They are very motivated by these new formats of memory workshops." Ms. Desroches, Clinical Therapist, La Providence Nursing Home, Le Coteaux, France.
The program can be administered by any professional care provider including cognitive therapists, geriatricians, nurse practitioners, cognitive psychologists, independent living and assisted living staff. Leveraging the power of the Web, clinical therapists now have all the tools necessary to assign seniors to the program, provide personalized coaching services and monitor program compliance and performance over time. "Designed with the professional therapist in mind, The Aging Well program on Scientific Brain Training PRO brings together tele-medicine delivery of critically important cognitive stimulation programs that enables, for the first time, fully supervised distance therapy. This can play an important role in enabling seniors to
The Aging Well program delivers objective performance measurements helping in the assessment of patient cognitive decline over time. These measurements make the case for Medicare or Medicaid reimbursements of needed services. "Objective measures of patient performance are essential to support the case for continued reimbursable services," noted Bruce Brotter, PhD, COO and Director of Clinical Services, Memory Training Centers of America, whose organization offers memory treatment services for patients with MCI & Early Alzheimer's disease.
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