Our brains do amazing work on a daily basis, but can need support to continue functioning properly. Our experts support with cognitive changes, offering an array of therapies for people with diagnoses or who want to prevent and delay decline.
Cognitive Domains
Memory: many people who experience memory loss complain of short term memory difficulties. This often shows up as missed appointments, forgetting a conversation, and losing household items. Some people start to lose their long term memory, which can even mean not remembering their important milestones.
Attention: there are many types of attention, for instance, sustained, selective, and alternating. Depending on what you struggle with our experts will hone in on therapies and compensations to support your goals.
Executive function: this domain is not fully separate from the others, but can be described as cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, self-monitoring, sequencing, and planning.
Language: while we have another page dedicated to only language, it is technically directly connected to cognition. Language deficits can range from tip-of-the-tongue sensation to social pragmatic challenges to inability to speak fluently.
Visuospatial: some people experience changes in how they process visual information, either with a visual field cut or spatial awareness deficits.
Conditions
We work with:
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People 65+ who want to prevent and delay decline
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Folks diagnosed with:
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Parkinson's Disease
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Brain tumors
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Dementia
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Mild cognitive impairment
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Brain injury
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Other disorders
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Why work with us?
Cognitive therapy is not the same across our field, there are old practices, like handing client's workbooks to fill out or games to play that do not support actual change. Our providers can find a plan of care that ensures real change. We are also the perfect people to help with preventing cognitive decline, as we know the latest research in protective factors for cognition in older adults.
Goal collaboration: ensuring we are working on goals that actually mean something to you. Instead of handing you random worksheets, we help with functional improvement, for example, no longer missing appointments, remember people's names, and no longer losing your keys.
Assessment: it is not always possible to tease apart the cognitive domains, and they often go hand in hand. For instance, if you cannot attend well, you will not remember what is happening. Our assessment will help to figure out what your needs are, but also your strengths and how to capitalize on that.