The Editorial Group Gesfomedia presents new books to work cognitive stimulation in adults.
“allow combat the intellectual impairment in elderly people or patients from diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease”.
Spain, 2011-April cognitive impairment, which consists in a progressive loss of intellectual memory, writing and reading skills, is a problem that affects all people, especially in old age or due to diseases such as Alzheimer.
In order to help combat these problems that severely limit the quality of life for patients, families and therapists, the Editorial Group Gesfomedia has presented the collection of books cognitive stimulation for adults ”. It is a series of practical papers for the prevention and treatment of cognitive disorders is not designed as reference material, but as a therapeutic support.
In Spain there are currently over seven million people 65 years of age which increases the incidence of cognitive disorders. To this figure we must add the nearly 900,000 affected by degenerative diseases as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease in our country in 2011 is celebrated the international year of ad, a yet incurable ailment but in which the cognitive stimulation is a proven tool for the treatment and prevention.
Cognitive stimulation allows you to delay the onset of these cognitive disorders, either compensate for its effects, by carrying out various types of exercises. In this sense, the collection of the Gesfomedia Group Publishing House is divided into six workshops based on the cognitive process that is intended to stimulate or rehabilitate: attention, executive function, language, memory, perception, read-write and Viso-construcción. Each workshop is made up turn into 5 notebooks, sorted from smaller to greater complexity to conform to the clinical and cultural characteristics of the patient.
In total, the collection includes more than 2,000 chips and 10,000 activities based on scientific models and they have been selected for their proven effective preventive or rehabilitative. Used stimuli consist above all in colour photographs of everyday objects to facilitate his identification by the patients.
The books in the collection cognitive stimulation for adults ” can be used by professionals (psychologists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, etc.) and family members who need a specialized support material in the process of recovery or prevention. In this sense, all notebooks contain an explanatory Guide and examples of resolved activities aimed at those responsible of the therapies. Anyway, if necessary, the patient also can work directly with the material without support of a therapist, thanks to the clarity of the instructions for use.
Collection cognitive stimulation for adults ” is led by expert Andrew Sardinero Peña, psychologist specializing in Neuropsychology, which with a postgraduate degree in Neuropsychology and dementias and cognitive stimulation of the brain injury certificate. More information is available at www.tallerescognitiva.com .
Both therapists and family members of people with cognitive disorders require specialized and comprehensive material allowing them to work every day on the prevention and rehabilitation of cognitive deterioration suffered by the elderly or patients with degenerative diseases ”, says the author. With this collection of the Gesfomedia Group Publishing House, have a practical, effective and user-friendly tool use has very positive effects in the stimulation cognitive. ”
About Group Gesfomedia
Group Gesfomedia offers professional training solutions adapted to new technologies. In addition to its publications for therapists and family, just submit a new editorial line dedicated to the education of children and adolescents, which is entitled Gesfomedia education and is available in print and multimedia.
