JHCC | Jewish Senior Living Newsletter | Nov 2014

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Jewish Senior Living Newsletter November 2014 - Volume 2, Issue 8

Keeping you connected to our communities.

ReCharge! Class Reaches Out to the Community

In This Issue ReCharge! Class Reaches out to the Community

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Sarah Chudnow Community Political Discussion Series

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Music Feeds the Brain

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Upcoming Events

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by Liza Holle, Donor Stewardhip Coordinator

tudies suggest that the more physically and mentally active people are throughout their lives, the stronger the connections are between brain cells. ReCharge! is an interactive brain and body fitness class offered at Chai Point Senior Living. It provides education on the brain and memory, emphasizes intentional memory, offers memory strategies and techniques and teaches people how to use their brains in novel ways. It is an opportunity to engage in creative brain exercises in a friendly setting while improving memory, focus and concentration.

The ReCharge! class was developed in response to requests from health professionals and professionals on aging who wanted to have a program on the east side of Milwaukee. Now a year old, the class has become a successful service offered within our community. ReCharge! is unique in emphasizing a dedicated hour to physical exercise from a certified occupational therapy assistant. Exercise is known to help the brain, the heart, and mood, and can be accomplished in our beautiful Lake Michigan setting in a variety of ways. Those participants who choose not to exercise physically are A ReCharge! participant works offered a group mental on a brain puzzle fitness exercise instead.

The class is based on the findings of a yearlong research project that sought to answer the question: do these brain health enhancement classes make a difference? The answer is yes! The research findings were fully published in March of 2014. Dawn Adler, director of the Adult Day Center at the Jewish Home and Care Center, was co-author of illuminate, an integrated curriculum for early memory loss program, which was written to assist others who wanted to start brain health enhancement classes.

Wisconsin has a unique network of approximately 35 memory assessment clinics. These clinics have a 90 percentplus accuracy rate of diagnosing people with mild cognitive loss (MCI). Because it is an educational class, ReCharge! is a non-threatening stepping stone to helping people learn how to help themselves, live well as independently as possibly, and connect see “ReCharge!� page 4


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