The mayor of Eagles and the mayor of Old Age today closed the conference.
Eagles Mayor, Juan Ramírez Soto and the mayor of Third Age, Josefa García, today closed the course "Training of Memory" that since last December, was held in our town.
In this conference, aimed at older people, involved nearly fifty members of the Municipal Center on Aging, which have worked, through practical exercises, attention span, concentration and memory.
Over time, the facts tend to remember far better than recently experienced, this is because the long-term memory remains intact, while the short-term memory can not store data properly.
Hence the need to work this ability constantly.
Many people complain of memory lapses in everyday situations.
Among the most common complaints are: taking the medicine, forget what they have gone to look for a room, where they have saved an object, names, dates, phone numbers, addresses etc..
In short, the basic elements to play an independent and secure life.
These benign forgetfulness becomes more frequent in the older age need not be associated with any disease, even if they can limit the life of sufferers, since they involve a loss of self-confidence, fear of appearing to engage previously carried out without problems and therefore self-esteem could be damaged.
However, what many people know is that mental capacity can be trained, by stimulating and applying various techniques that facilitate memory, memory exercising to keep it running and will not rust.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas