Desenvolvimento de programas de estimulação cognitiva para adultos idosos: modalidades da Literatura e da Neuropsicologia

Abstract

Considering the import increase of longevity in the world and in Brazil, interventions of health promotion and education specific to healthy elderly adults are essential and socially relevant. This paper presents the planning of two programs of cognitive intervention for adults 60-80 years of age in the indirect mode, literature, and direct, of neuropsychology. From the specific national and international bibliography and the technique of brainstorming with professionals involved in the intervention area were built two programs to be administered in groups of up to 10 people, with neuropsychological assessment pre-and post-intervention in 12 sessions lasting an hour and a half. The intervention program arising from the literature proposes activities involving oral and written language, modality literary poetry. The intervention program includes activities derived from the neuropsychology of cognitive training with specific techniques of stimulation of four components of the cognitive function of working memory. Such programs appear to answer the methodological suggestions in the knowledge of the area and should be developed with two groups of elderly adults to verify their effectiveness in human cognition. It intends to stimulate the promotion of more interventive actions by means of a multidisciplinary approach to cognitive stimulation of elderly people.