Ideal Aging: 5 Steps to Keep Your Brain Fit. This item is unavailable.Ideal Aging: 5 Steps to Keep Your Brain Fit

Ideal Aging: 5 Steps to Keep Your Brain Fit is the information you need for the vigorous longevity you earn for yourself. The concepts and techniques here are grounded in science. Let them enrich your mind and help make the changes most beneficial to you. Celebrate that your brain is plastic, meaning it changes as you do; that it is never too early and never too late to improve your brain and how it works; that new neuroscience shows us how we can build better brains at any age; and that your brain craves novelty. That s delicious! This book could be one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself and everyone you love. It is a review of cutting-edge neuroscience. And it is prescriptive with tools to help clinicians, academics, businesses and consumers individualize their health care. By providing science-based techniques to Keep Your Brain Fit in ways that can be free, easy, fun and portable, this book: 1) Captures the component of health people most want to protect ... their brain; 2) Uses science-based techniques that simultaneously improve physical health; AND 3) Can be the most effective way of a) Reducing the crushing health care costs to governments, businesses, individuals and families; b) Empowering individuals to consult with healthcare providers; AND c) Putting quality and affordable health care in the hands of the consumer. I believe this can contribute substantially to realizing our goal for real healthcare reform that integrates mental and physical health that can improve the health of our people at any age while reducing costs.

Joyce Shaffer, PhD, is a psychologist, nurse, speaker, global bicyclist, and author. A Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington, she is an expert for the court of law at Harborview Medical Center. Throughout more than forty years in healthcare, she has stayed at the cutting edge of science, and she excels at bringing hard scientific data to life so you can enjoy its benefits. Bicycling for all of 2000 with the O2K trek that averaged 80 miles a day in 45 countries on 6 continents, Dr. Joyce is a testament to Ideal Aging.