Patent ID: 8273020

Claim:
A system for providing adaptive rule based cognitive stimulation to a user during a stimulation session for mitigating the decline of and maintaining and improving a user's cognitive abilities, said user having an initial predetermined cognitive profile defined for a plurality of cognitive domains, said stimulation session comprising at least one event, said event contained within an event subtype, said event subtype contained within an event type, said event type contained within a cognitive domain, the system comprising: a stimulator configured for providing interactive adaptive rule based cognitive stimulation to the user during a stimulation session of the user, wherein said stimulator is configured to: select an event type, an event subtype and an event in accordance with a plurality of predefined rules in an initial hierarchy of rules; establish a stimulation protocol in at least one cognitive domain based upon the hierarchy of predefined rules and the user's cognitive profile; and present cognitive stimulation in accordance with the stimulation protocol to the user via an interactive audio/visual display unit for user interaction therewith for mitigating the decline of and maintaining and improving the user's cognitive abilities; an evaluator adapted to evaluate the user's responses to said cognitive stimulation and to provide user feedback indicative of the evaluated response, said evaluator further configured to: adaptively modify the user's cognitive profile as a function of the users evaluated response; adaptively modify the hierarchy of rules as a function of the user's modified cognitive profile; and establish a modified stimulation protocol based upon the modified hierarchy of rules and the modified user's cognitive profile prior to the presentation of a succeeding cognitive stimulation; and an audio/visual interactive display unit in communication with said stimulator, adapted for presenting cognitive stimulation to and receiving responses from said user.