COGWORKS - The Cognitive Health and Wellbeing Hub.

如果你的健康是你的财富，那么你的认知健康（记忆力和相关能力）一定是财富的重要组成部分！COGWORKS是一个由各种背景和专业知识的人组成的网络，他们聚集在一起，利用技术发展所提供的可能性。你的移动的手机能检测出痴呆症的迹象吗？网络博客或YouTube能否缓解护理人员的压力？你家的内部环境是否可以改善，以确保你可以留在那里？COGWORKS的成员将汇集他们的知识和技能，试图回答这些问题和其他问题，以找到帮助人们在一生中保持最高水平的认知健康和独立性的方法。该网络包括：来自北方爱尔兰、英格兰、苏格兰、爱尔兰和美国的研究人员;来自老年人、儿童、护理人员团体的代表，以及参与决策和提供服务的人员。COGWORKS网络的成员共同努力，在影响我们健康和生活质量的一系列领域提供丰富的知识和专业知识，包括：建筑，教育，信息通信技术，法律，医学，职业治疗，心理学，公共卫生和社会学。该网络的成员将共同努力，制定一项研究战略，重点是发现在一个人生命的各个阶段可以做的事情，以帮助确保当他们进入老年时，他们将尽可能敏锐和认知健康。COGWORKS集中在四个关键领域：（1）确定从怀孕到老年影响认知健康的因素，这些因素可能包括营养，教育，创伤和压力或隔离等因素;（2）检查照顾和残疾的影响;（3）对建筑环境影响的探讨;（4）确定机会，通过广泛使用的技术，如移动的电话和电脑，单独促进认知健康，以帮助老年人，包括痴呆症患者，保持独立。COGWORKS的活动旨在建立强有力的协作工作关系，特别是与公众的接触。这些活动将包括建立一个网络空间;每月电子通讯;公开会议;研究;出席会议和主持确定研究优先事项的定期会议。COGWORKS将开展的工作将强调良好认知功能的经济和社会效益，并将与老年人的生活密切相关。

If your health is your wealth; your cognitive health (memory and related faculties) must represent a significant portion of that fortune! COGWORKS, a network of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and expertise, have come together to exploit the possibilities offered by developments in technology. Can your mobile phone detect signs of dementia? Might web blogs or YouTube ease carer strain? Can the internal environment of your home be improved to ensure that you can remain there? The members of COGWORKS will pool their knowledge and skills, in an attempt to answer these and other questions, to find ways to help people maintain maximum levels of cognitive health and independence throughout their life. The Network includes: researchers based in Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Ireland and the USA; representatives from groups for older people, children, carers, and people involved in making policy decisions and service delivery. Working together the members of the COGWORKS Network provide a rich fountain of knowledge and expertise in a range of areas that impact on our health and quality of life, including: architecture, education, ICT, law, medicine, occupational therapy, psychology, public health and sociology. The members of the Network will work together to formulate a research strategy focused on discovering things that could be done, at various stages in a person s life to help ensure that when they reach old age they will be as sharp and as cognitively healthy as possible. COGWORKS focuses on four key areas: (1) identification of the factors which influence cognitive health from conception to old age, these may include things such as nutrition, education, trauma and stress or isolation; (2) an examination of the impact of caring and disability; (3) an exploration of the influence of the built environment and (4) identification of opportunities to discretely promote cognitive health through widely available technologies such as mobile phones and computers to help older people, including those with dementia, retain their independence. COGWORKS activities are directed towards creating strong collaborative working relationships and engagement with the public in particular. They will include the creation of a web-space; a monthly electronic newsletter; open meetings; research; attending conferences and hosting regular meetings to identify research priorities. The work to be produced by COGWORKS will emphasize the economic and social gains of good cognitive functioning and will be highly relevant to the lives of older people.