Blue Zone Your Memory No. 37: Autobiographical Memory

 

 

 

Most of us would agree that culture and background can be a regulator for intrapersonal and interpersonal interactions.  Autobiographical memory is memory from past experiences, and this includes all of the contextual relationships associated with culture and interpersonal relationships. Understanding a person's cultural interactions and the history of one’s social patterns are essential when designing environments that help stimulate positive memory events for the cognitively declined person. When visiting a friend or a loved one, who is memory impaired, consider sharing artifacts of their culture and from their previous patterns of socialization.

 

Virtual Team Brain Storm: Update!



Team Captain
Kelly Lance





Team Brain Storm is still at 15 members…please tell your family & friends to sign up so that our team can grow.


This week we did some “Mentalrobics”, exercising our brains to stay mentally fit.





Tim Barringer, Massage Therapist at TFC, submitted this play on words:
 
To the point.
Not pointed.


What is the word? The answer is below.

We then looked at how well we could remember quotes! The following are humorous quotes from famous people in history. Can you match the quotes in Part 1 with the person who said it in Part 2? Answers are below.

Part 1:

1. "Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

2. "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down at us. Pigs treat us as equals."

3. "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."

4. "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."

5. "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

6. "God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Part 2:

Albert Einstein

Will Rogers

Abraham Lincoln

Benjamin Franklin

Winston Churchill

Mark Twain

San Domiano Residence: 3D Mosaic Finishing Touches

~Photos submitted by project photographer Denise~

Blue Zone Your Memory No. 25: Personality Type

Your memory issues may be influenced by your personality type. For example, if your personality type is a combination of the sensing-intuition dichotomy of the Myers-Briggs personality assessment types, you may find that in a conversation or during an activity you may focus on concepts, ideas, theories, and inferring connections rather than the facts of the event. To support your memory needs for this personality type try putting your fragmented memories into an interesting and meaningful content based around the event or facts that you are trying to remember.

Construction Update! Memory and Assisted Care Units

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~Photos submitted by project photographer Denise~