Preventing Senior Moments: How to Stay Alert into Your 90s and Beyond [Hardcover]

Offers practical and achievable prevention strategies for senior moments.

Some senior moments are what they seembrain glitches no more concerning than realizing the problem arose because of something easily fixable such as wearing hearing aids. But others are the result of complex information processing errors. Unfortunately, untilPreventing Senior Moments, no book or article offered research-based strategies for preventing senior moments that range from forgetting appointments to becoming disorientated.

People tormented with an ailmentphysical or emotionaldo not want general suggestions for alleviating it. They seek something that describes the problem in detail, determines its seriousness, and offers advice that is specific, relevant, immediate, and long-lasting.Preventing Senior Momentsoffers all four. Using real life, relatable stories, Stan Goldberg reveals the processes behind senior moments, how to recognize the signs, and strategies for preventing them.

Stan Goldberg, PhD, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Language and Hearing Disorders at San Francisco State University, has written 195 articles, seven chapters, and nine books published in four languages. He has received 26 national and international awards including Best Buddhist Writings of 2010 (along with Thich Nhat Hanh) and The London Book Festival Grand Prize Winner. His website isstangoldbergwriter.com.

Clinician and counselor Goldberg blends research on the brain and communication together with personal and client experience to analyze the phenomena of senior moments (i.e., the forgetfulness that prompts questions like Why did I just walk into this room? What is that persons name? Why do I remember that experience so differently from the person with whom I shared it?) &. Most reassuring is Goldbergs advice that readers accept themselves as they are and get plans in place to head off future struggles. Older readers will feel both lcå