1. Intro - Optimal Aging a Guide for Caregivers

As a caregiver, you play an important role in assisting older individuals in aging healthily. Optimal aging is a comprehensive strategy that includes psychological and social well-being in later life. Unlike conventional strategies that only address illness prevention, optimum aging enables older persons to flourish in the face of age-related problems.

 For instance, Daniel Levitin, in Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives, discusses how the aging brain maintains flexibility, creativity, and resilience. This viewpoint emphasizes the need of using neuroscience knowledge to improve the well-being of older persons. This handbook provides evidence-based ways for caregivers to help their loved one’s age well, focusing on Levitin's work and other significant studies.

A caregiver conversing with an Old person (Wix)