{"id":9206,"date":"2024-09-12T16:55:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/?page_id=9206"},"modified":"2024-09-13T14:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T18:29:27","slug":"september-cognitive-kit-world-alzheimers-month","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/september-cognitive-kit-world-alzheimers-month\/","title":{"rendered":"September Cognitive Kit: World Alzheimer’s Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our September Cognitive Kit! September is World Alzheimer\u2019s Month and this month, we are sharing a book recommendation, coloring page, journal prompt & activity tracker, crossword puzzle, and some additional resources and further reading.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Click on the files below to download and print any of the exercises and if you\u2019d like to, please tag us on<\/span> social media<\/span><\/a> when you\u2019re finished. We\u2019d love to see your completed activities!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Book Recommendation:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

<\/span>Still Alice <\/span><\/i>by Lisa Genova (2009)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cStill Alice<\/span><\/i> is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman’s sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer’s disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, <\/span>Still Alice<\/span><\/i> captures in remarkable detail what’s it’s like to literally lose your mind…<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reminiscent of <\/span>A Beautiful Mind<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Ordinary People<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>The Curious Incident of the Dog<\/span><\/i> in the Night-time<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Still Alice<\/span><\/i> packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.\u201d (Summary from <\/span>Amazon<\/span><\/a>)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can find <\/span>Still Alice<\/span><\/i> at your local library, or on <\/span>Amazon<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Barnes & Noble<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>more<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Coloring Page:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

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You can download this month\u2019s coloring page here: September 2024 Cognitive Kit Coloring Page<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Journal Prompt & Activity Tracker:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

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You can download this month\u2019s activity tracker here: September 2024 Cognitive Kit Journal Prompt and Activity Tracker<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Crossword Puzzle:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

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You can download this month\u2019s crossword puzzle here: September 2024 Cognitive Kit Crossword Puzzle<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(Hint! The answers can be found in the featured studies and resources below.)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can now view the answers to the August crossword puzzle\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Featured Research Study:<\/span>
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Cross\u2010sectional and longitudinal evaluation of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein to detect and predict clinical syndromes of Alzheimer’s disease<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First Author: Madeline Ally, PhD Student<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior Author: Michael Alosco, PhD<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Resources:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Take a look at this month\u2019s highlighted resources:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Alzheimer\u2019s Disease?<\/span><\/a> \u2013 Alzheimer\u2019s Association<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tips for Caregivers and Families of People With Dementia<\/span><\/a> \u2013 Alzheimers.gov\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CDC Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Aging Resource Center<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Boston University\/Boston Medical Campus Memory & Aging Clinic<\/span><\/a> (BU\/BMC MAC)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Thank you for completing September\u2019s Cognitive Kit activities! If you\u2019d like to see kits from other months, please click <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our September Cognitive Kit! September is World Alzheimer\u2019s Month and this month, we are sharing a book recommendation, coloring page, journal prompt & activity tracker, crossword puzzle, and some additional resources and further reading.\u00a0\u00a0 Click on the files below to download and print any of the exercises and if you\u2019d like to, please […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20977,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9229,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9206\/revisions\/9229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}