Cognitive health
Cognitive health is the ability that allows us to remember, decide, learn, innovate, connect with others and maintain our autonomy. Caring for it means protecting an essential part of our future.
What is cognitive health?
Talking about cognitive health means talking about memory, attention, language, orientation, decision-making and adaptation. It is not an abstract concept: it is present in daily life, at work, in the family and in the way we participate in society.
For the Fundació Rosa Maria Vivar, cognitive health is the framework from which to drive prevention, outreach and research to accelerate a cure for Alzheimer’s.
Memory
Memory allows us to sustain our history, learn from experience and maintain bonds with our environment.
Autonomy
Caring for cognitive health helps preserve the ability to decide, act and participate in everyday life.
Continuity
Cognitive health protects the transmission of knowledge, judgement and experience between generations.
Prevention
Acting early is one of the great opportunities in cognitive health. Prevention and access to reliable information can help better guide the decisions of individuals, families, professionals and organisations in relation to their cognitive health.
Research is also moving towards a more precise understanding of the factors that influence cognitive decline and its prevention. That is why it is important to bring this knowledge closer to society in a clear, rigorous and useful way.
Research is also moving towards a more precise understanding of the factors that influence cognitive decline and its prevention. That is why it is important to bring this knowledge closer to society in a clear, rigorous and useful way.
Promote healthy habits
Cognitive health is also linked to habits, environment, activity, social connections and access to high-quality information.
From Alzheimer’s to the future of cognitive health
Alzheimer’s remains a priority. But to make progress against the disease, we also need to look at what comes before: prevention, risk factors and new lines of research.
Cognitive health makes it possible to connect the scientific challenge with a broader social responsibility: protecting memory, autonomy, identity and talent before the loss is irreversible.