Want More Quality of Life for Mom and Dad?

Could mom or dad benefit?

Yes ... mom and dad can benefit from our Cognitive Arts Staircase recreation-and-art therapeutic approaches that promote retention of skills and abilities of normal seniors and elders and also of those diagnosed with beginning-to-mid stages of Alzheimer's Disease. Two pilot studies, conducted in 2008 (and several more recent), utilized similar cognitive art intervention as our programs do: an approach stimulating three distinct brain systems, encouraging brain wellness and neural regeneration, therefore providing a viable means to enhance cognitive functioning in folks diagnosed with mild-to-moderate stages of Alzheimer's Disease.

Are mom and dad likely to respond?

Yes ...mom and dad are likely to respond to our Cognitive Arts programs. Our Cognitive Arts programs are exciting and help seniors regroup, encouraging them to recollect and respond to their memories, thoughts and feelings. (Results are based on our initial low-cost cognitive evaluation of your mom and dad to test their availability to improve, or not improve, during our programs.)

Want mom and dad to have a higher quality of life?

Yes. I want mom and dad to have a higher quality of life. 

Want mom and dad to have more quality of life?

Yes. Significant to the therapist/caregiver serving your mom and dad  is that a wide variety of data sources demonstrate that recreation/arts together have a positive impact on quality of life. Factors associated with increased quality of life include: self-expression, self-worth, increased socialization, feelings of belonging to something greater, ability to self-challenge oneself, and meaningful quality time. [1] [2]

Do mom and dad like emotional warmth and well-being as much as you do?

Yes. Mom and dad appreciate warmth and kindness. Our methodology may enhance cognitive abilities to recall ...(when accompanied by a positive emotional event). Life experiences and activities that challenge the mind in a safe and socially validating way ...centered on the client, may result in positive and continual changes and repairs in the client's brain ... even in mild or moderate AD.

Will your mom and dad find our staff, artists and performing artists (many of whom are caregivers) different from others?

Yes. Many on our staff are professional health caregivers who have done ADL's (activities of daily living) with seniors, who are 'creative types' with advanced college degrees and professional-level creative experience: visual artists, special needs education teachers, modern dancers, massage therapists and so on -- and they are not dummies or robots, they are sensitive, exciting, caring, skilled, talented and brilliant, re-placing mom and dad in a familiar professional and/or social atmosphere in which mom and dad once worked, interacted with close friends, entertained, enjoyed and expressed themselves.

Do we interact with your mom and dad, creatively? 

Yes. We offer your parents, (our clients) a skillfully guided session that exercises and nurtures a variety of different cognitive creation and cognitive processing areas throughout the human brain, to promote healthy neural growth and processing by involving your parents in artistic thinking, discrimination, identification and non-linear conceptual response to the full gamut of the human cognitive theatres ... using intuition, goal, vision, choice, direction, judgment, decision-making and expectation.

Do mom and dad like to feel safe, and important?

Yes. Research demonstrates experiences and activities that challenge the mind in a safe and socially validating way, focused on the client, result in positive and continuous changes in the human brain, even in the individual with Mild AD, Moderate AD or advanced stages.

Do therapeutic and stimulating activities directly enhance mom and dad's neuroplasticity (in their brains)?

Yes ...specifically in the hippocampus region. Our programs engage participants in a group or individual art/recreation therapy format ...ensuring a higher likelihood of full participation from each participant by providing steps that accommodate all known information processing styles.

Is our process with your mom and dad gentle and emotionally warm?

Yes. Our staircase approach includes art therapy and recreational therapy in Cognitive Art intervention mode, in a controlled and safe environment, that using methods that are documented to enhance cognitive functioning in Alzheimer's Disease clients, and therapeutically addresses and helps maintain and build healthy brain cognitive functioning, addresses social and emotional needs of your mom and dad, and integrates opportunities for them to thematically evaluate the emotional highlights of their entire lifetimes thru each different cognitively processing area of their brain.[b] Our method provides the early intervention needed  to assist your mom and dad, as older adults, in retaining and nurturing their cognitive and psychosocial abilities. [c,d,e,f]

Are you going contact us to schedule mom or dad for a low cost evaluation as to program suitability?

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