“When I’d think ‘who was that?’ I’d take a moment and I’d remember.”īut Howard’s biggest triumph came months after she graduated from the program. ![]() “After, I noticed that all the names stayed in my head,” she says. Before, when she would revisit a book she’d been reading, she would have to flip back to remind herself who all of the characters were and how they were connected. “I knew that if I thought of it while I was going to sleep,” she says, “I would remember to do it the next day.”Īlso, her reading experience began to change. For one thing, she was no longer jumping out of bed at night to write something down for fear she would forget it. “It really sounded wonderful.” A few weeks in, she began to notice small improvements. “They said if we take this eight-week course, one hour a day, five days a week, we would learn to listen better, pay more attention, and relearn how to focus,” says Howard. Last spring, representatives from a local technology company called Posit Science came to the Heritage to see if any of the residents were interested in testing out a revolutionary computer-based program that could potentially revitalize their brains. I had to become a compulsive list-maker.” “Short-term memory was my biggest problem,” she says. Fast-talking and quintessentially plucky, Howard is what the staff call a high-energy resident: a dedicated community volunteer, a member of the art committee, an avid reader, and editor of the in-house newsletter, Happenings.(In fact, she tells me, she barely has time to squeeze in this interview.)Which is why she was so unnerved, a few years ago, when she began to notice she was forgetting little things.
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