PACE

The PACE program can help adults and seniors with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), early dementia, mild dementia, poor memory, and slow processing speed.

Our aging brain, like our agin bodies, can be kept healthier through exercising the brain with the PACE program.

PACE develops

-Memory
-Processing Speed
-Visual Processing
-Logic and Reasoning
-Auditory Processing
-Comprehension

Who would benefit from Florida Brain Trainers?

Anyone who wants to use more of their natural capacity to help them learn, think, remember and make today’s and tomorrow’s decisions more effectively. The PACE program can improve a person’s cognitive learning skills for a better quality of life for people that have difficulty recalling words, repeating same information, slower processing of information, and poor memory.

The PACE Program

The PACE (Processing And Cognitive Enhancement) Program

The PACE program works on a person’s cognitive learning skills with one-on-one brain training.

The six underlying areas of the brain, which govern learning are called cognitive learning skills:

1. Processing Speed:
   How quickly the brain processes information.
2. Active Working Memory:
   Working memory is the ability to retain information for short periods of time. Long-term memory is the ability to recall information that was stored in the past.
3. Visual Perception/Processing Skills:
   The brain’s ability to handle information from pictures, drawings and shapes.
4. Central Auditory Processing:
   The brain’s ability to blend, interpret, and use the 43 sounds of the English language.
5. Word Attack:
   The brain’s ability to sound out words.
6. Logic and Reasoning:
   The brain’s ability to break down complex projects into a sequence of steps.

What are Cognitive Skills?

Cognitive skills are the learning skills used to retain information, process, analyze and store facts and feelings, create mental pictures and understand concepts. Cognitive skills can be improved, strengthened, and enhanced, regardless of a person’s age.

What is Mild Cognitive impairment is a decline in cognition, including concentration, communication, memory and orientation. These declines may also impact the person’s ability to conduct activities of daily living (ADLs) in such areas as dressing, bathing and eating meals.

It’s estimated that about 20% of people over the age of 70 have MCI.

What’s the difference between MCI and normal age-related memory changes?

As people age, it’s normal for them to experience some occasional memory gaps, such as not being able to remember someone’s name that they haven’t seen for a while or where they set down their favorite pen.

A periodic delay in being able to access memories is also typical as we age.

What’s not normal, and moves people toward an MCI diagnosis, is the experience of additional concerns in the areas of language, judgment and problem solving, or when the memory loss is more than just occasional.