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Everyday Brain Fitness and Bioflex Laser
Mission Statement:

Everyday Brain Fitness and Bioflex Laser’s mission is to provide people with access to non-computerized brain fitness support that integrates social interaction, fall prevention techniques and supportive low-level laser therapy maximizing the overall benefit of a healthy brain function.

Activities are designed to retain or strengthen:

• Concentration
• Accurate perception
• Visual discrimination of foreground-background, form,
  size, position in space, dimensionality and color
• Visual analysis and synthesis of position in space
• Auditory discrimination of foreground-background,
  position in time and space, and dimensionality
• Auditory analysis and synthesis of position in time and space
• Visual discrimination of dimensionality
• Decoding and integration of information
• Visual closure
• Imagination
• Visual memory, especially of forms and sequence
• Auditory memory

• Short-term—working memory
• Long-term memory
• Concept of numbers
• Reasoning
• Logical thinking
• Fine motor coordination
• Gross motor coordination
• Sensory-motor integration
• Processing speed
• Orientation point
• Executive function**

**Executive Functions are abilities that enable goal-oriented behavior such as the ability to plan and execute a goal.

These include:

• Flexibility: the capac­ity for quickly switch­ing to the appro­pri­ate men­tal mode
• Theory of mind: insight into other people’s inner world, their plans, their likes and dis­likes
• Anticipation: pre­dic­tion based on pat­tern recog­ni­tion
• Problem-solving: defin­ing the prob­lem in the right way to then gen­er­ate solu­tions and pick the right one
• Decision making: the abil­ity to make deci­sions based on problem-solving, on incom­plete infor­ma­tion and on emo­tions (ours and others’)
• Working memory: the capac­ity to hold and manip­u­late infor­ma­tion “on-line” in real time
• Emotional self-regulation: the abil­ity to iden­tify and man­age one’s own emo­tions for good performance
• Sequencing: the abil­ity to break down com­plex actions into man­age­able units and pri­or­i­tize them in the right order
• Inhibition: the abil­ity to with­stand dis­trac­tion, and inter­nal urges

Clients seeking brain fitness desire:

• brain orientation, balance and visual and auditory memory stabilization after mild or moderate brain trauma due to accident or surgery
• concentration, attention, processing and balance after surgical procedures and/or chemotherapy
• retention and/or strengthening of existing cognitive abilities to slow or reverse dementia
• optimal cognitive functioning while aging

Prior to services clients are assessed using evidence based tools to assess strengths: FAB, VAMC SLUMS, TUG, Trailblazing, Serials

Based on the interview and test results, clients receive a written recommendation for appropriate services.

Clients at risk for falls are referred to T’ai Chi for Better Balance an evidence based program to reduce risks of falls by 75%. Clients in need of physical healing support from chronic or acute conditions will be referred to low-level laser therapy.