COGWORKS - The Cognitive Health and Wellbeing Hub.

如果你的健康就是你的财富，那么你的认知健康(记忆力和相关能力)肯定是这笔财富的重要组成部分！COGWORKS是一个由来自不同背景和专业知识的人组成的网络，他们聚集在一起，探索技术发展提供的可能性。你的手机能检测到痴呆症的迹象吗？网络博客或YouTube能缓解照顾者的压力吗？你的家的内部环境能否得到改善，以确保你能留在那里？COGWORKS的成员将汇集他们的知识和技能，试图回答这些和其他问题，找到方法来帮助人们在一生中保持最大程度的认知健康和独立性。该网络包括：北爱尔兰、英格兰、苏格兰、爱尔兰和美国的研究人员；来自老年人、儿童、照顾者的团体的代表，以及参与决策和服务提供的人。COGWORKS网络的成员共同努力，在影响我们的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、信息和通信技术、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S一生的不同阶段可以做的事情，以帮助确保他们到老年时，他们将尽可能地敏锐和认知健康。COGWORKS专注于四个关键领域：(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、压力或隔离；(2)检查照顾和残疾的影响；(3)探索建筑环境的影响；以及(4)确定通过广泛可用的技术，如移动电话和计算机，单独促进认知健康的机会，以帮助老年人，包括痴呆症患者，保持他们的独立性。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。它们将包括建立一个网络空间；每月电子通讯；公开会议；研究；出席会议和主持定期会议，以确定研究优先事项。COGWORKS将制作的这项工作将强调良好认知功能带来的经济和社会收益，并将与老年人的生活高度相关。

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.