Successful Aging
& Your Brain
Successful Aging & Your Brain focuses on understanding how the brain works and maximizing brain function and health. The program includes live public forums, printed resources to order (and more to download), and Successful Aging & Your Brain On Demand, a one-hour video program available on YouTube.
Successful Aging & Your Brain forums offer dynamic discussions by an expert panel followed by a Q&A session with the audience, covering how the brain changes as we age, memory loss, brain diseases and disorders, and maintaining cognitive function.
For an archive of earlier Successful Aging & Your Brain sessions, visit the Successful Aging & Your Brain archives.
Contact Us!
Is your organization interested in hosting a Successful Aging & Your Brain program for your community?
Contact:
Laura Reynolds
Successful Aging & Your Brain
The Dana Foundation
505 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600
New York, NY 10017
Tel: (212) 223-4040 ext. 683
Email: lreynolds@dana.org
Program News
Our next Successful Aging & Your Brain programs will be on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Austin, TX.
Coming this winter: Look for “The Healthy Skeptic,” our new public service announcements on brain health through all your years, in partnership with Everwell, in doctors’ offices around the country. See the first one below.
Resources
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Successful Aging & Your Brain PSA
What are the factors in brain health? This short video explains
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Successful Aging & Your Brain On Demand
Neuroscientists Matthew Fink, Scott Small, and Wendy Suzuki discussing the four simple steps proven to help keep your brain sharp as you age.
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The Healthy Skeptic: Dietary Supplements
The Healthy Skeptic investigates the claim that dietary supplements can improve your memory. Our first video in partnership with Everwell.
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El Envejecimiento Provechoso y el Cerebro
¿Quieres aprender más sobre el envejecimiento provechoso? ¡Mira nuestro anunció de servicio público, recientemente traducido en español!
Successful Aging in the News
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Global Council on Brain Health
The GCBH is an independent collaborative from AARP, created to provide trusted information on how you can maintain and improve your brain health. Its clear and dependable guidance is based on the foremost thinking from scientists, doctors, scholars and policy experts around the world. GCBH members debate the latest in brain health science to reach consensus on what works and what doesn’t. Our overriding goal is to help people apply the latest scientific insights to boost their cognitive health and live their best lives.
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Dana News StoryDefending the Aging Brain
“The brain doesn’t want to be demented,” researcher David Bennett says, “and it has means to protect itself.” He and other scientists are starting to find clues to genetic factors in the biology of resilience.
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Cerebrum ArticleThe Four Pillars of Alzheimer's Prevention
by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. and George Perry, Ph.D.
While researchers continue to search for therapies, the authors believe that changing or modifying one’s lifestyle and attitude can make a difference in both prevention and treatment.
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Cerebrum Podcast
Cerebrum Podcast #10: The Four Pillars of Alzheimer’s Prevention
Dharma Singh Khalsa explains the reasons that diet, exercise, medication, and psychological well-being offer the best chance for aging AD-free and nourishing a sharp mind.
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Moving Toward a Healthy Brain
It’s no secret that exercise and physical activity are central to public health. But does a healthy body equal a healthy brain?
News About the Successful Aging & Your Brain Program
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External linkAs Seen in Reader's Digest
Our Successful Aging & Your Brain booklet was featured in a Reader’s Digest article on 10 Crucial Health Tweaks to Make by Your 50s, which discusses mental exercise such as learning a new language or skill and accumulating knowledge over time.
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Coming SoonSuccessful Aging & Your Brain Podcasts
This fall, we’ll be starting a series of podcasts with experts on how to live a brain-healthy life through all your years.
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External linkPSA Wins Silver at Digital Health Awards
The Digital Health Awards recognize high-quality health resources for consumers and health professionals. Submissions are judged by a panel of health technology professionals and graded on content, format, success in reaching target audiences, and quality. The program is organized by the Health Information Resource Center.