What are the top 5 Constant Therapy exercises used by people with dementia?
An analysis of Constant Therapy users looked at individuals using the brain rehab app, who identified as living with dementia, and what tasks are assigned to them most frequently by their clinicians. This group of users completed an average of 220 exercises each on the app, for a total of 6.5 million exercises.
Picture Matching: In this working memory task, the patient must recall the location of everyday pictures.
Symbol Matching: Targets various skills often affected by dementia, including attention, visuospatial processing, and executive functioning. With 10 levels of difficulty, higher levels provide an increased challenge by adding more symbols in the grid and more distractions.
Instruction Sequencing: Sequencing steps to daily activities often affect people living with dementia. In this executive functioning task, you are presented with the steps to daily activities, and must drag these steps into the correct order.
Clock Math: Dementia can affect an individual’s ability to do daily tasks such as reading a clock or calculating time. This task target skills in visuospatial processing, memory, and calculations. Clock Math has 3 levels of difficulty where individuals must calculate the time (e.g. what time will it be in a half hour).
Picture N-Back Memory: This memory exercises is specifically targeting an aspect of working memory called updating. There are 3 levels of difficulty. In Level 1, you must remember the order of the pictures from 1 picture ago. In level 3 you must recall 3 pictures ago.
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