Brain Health & Fitness for Older Adults - OLLI Class #1
As we pursue high quality-of-life longevity, older adults throughout the world need to develop a better understanding of neuroscience. Over the past few decades, our understanding of the brain has provided us with tools that were not available to our parents. Although the new information can be extremely helpful to extend our lifespan, we need to do a better job in addressing dementia so that we can have high quality-of-life in our later years. This course is being presented at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Chico State University in California by Leonard N Matheson, PhD, a Neurorehabilitation Psychologist with formal training in Gerontology, the scientific study of aging. Dr. Matheson has been assisting people with brain injuries and neurologic diseases to put their lives back together since 1970. In this video and throughout the series of five videos, he shares tools that he has picked up from his mentors, many of whom were pioneers in gerontology and geriatric medicine.