Cognitive Fitness and Assessment
Cognitive fitness and assessment technologies include thinking games and cognitive challenge regimens. Like physical fitness, the premise of cognitive fitness is that cognitive health can be maintained or improved if individuals exercise their brain. The emphasis with older adults is predominantly focused on the prevention or delay of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Many cognitive fitness technologies are computer- or internet-based, multi-media platforms, and include assessment and tracking components.
Cognitive fitness and assessment technologies give health professionals, caregivers and acute care hospitals a better understanding of whether the patient can be self-sufficient and self manage their care at home. Clinicians and acute care hospitals use assessment tools to understand where deficits are occurring in the patient and incorporate these results in the decision- making process and discharge planning.