Let’s Define Brain Fitness and Physical Fitness

By SharpBrains | April 8, 2011 |

Bev­er­ly San­born, Vice Pres­i­dent of Pro­gram Devel­op­ment at Bel­mont Senior Liv­ing and sched­uled 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit Speak­er, could not final­ly speak at the Sum­mit (she was very well replaced by col­league Jeff DeBevec), but for­tu­nate­ly we can share her thought­ful answers to the fol­low­ing four crit­i­cal ques­tions. 1. How would you define “brain fit­ness” vs. “phys­i­cal fitness”?…

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Agenda: ASA Brain Health Day, Powered by SharpBrains

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 30, 2009

The Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging and Sharp­Brains have part­nered to co-pro­­duce a pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment day for pro­fes­sion­als in the field of aging. The day is themed “New Tools, New Part­ner­ships”, and will take place on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 11th, 2009, dur­ing ASA’s West Coast Con­fer­ence on Aging, in the Oak­land Mar­riot City Cen­ter, Oak­land, CA. “Giv­en aging…

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Brain Fitness Centers in Senior Housing — A Field in the Making

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 8, 2008

The Amer­i­can Seniors Hous­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (ASHA) has just released an Spe­cial Issue Brief, titled Brain Fit­ness Cen­ters in Senior Hous­ing — A Field in the Mak­ing. We pre­pared it for their mem­bers, and it is now avail­able for pur­chase (You can click here for pur­chase and down­load. $25.) It was a plea­sure to learn more…

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