I am more forgetful than I used to be.

Both my husband and myself have become forgetful. Seems more of a problem with our short term memory, the long term is fine. Lots of time when we go to the grocery store we buy everything but what we went there for, sigh. Which means a second trip for what we really wanted.

I've always had a problem with spelling and since I've gotten older it has become much worst. My daughter bought me Alexa. It's great cause while I can't spell, "she" can. Lol.
 

On another group there is a Caregiver's group, maybe there is one here too, but some of the heart wrenching stories of caregiving for alz/dementia family. I'm counting on my Grape Seed Ex to keep the amyloid plaque from forming on my brain. My parents were still of sound mind when they left planet earth in their 90's....
 
treeguy64 said:
You're overloading yourself, Ronni. It's obvious. A while back, you chided me for something, online, and it was apparent that you had a logic slip, in the context of what you posted. Reading that post weirded me out, but I chalked it up to your not understanding what I had posted. Now, things make more sense to me. You need to slow down, give up some of the activities you are trying to cram into your daily/weekly schedule. While you pride yourself on multitasking, you are, for whatever reasons, not able to maintain the hectic pace you've set for yourself. Is it better to do a few things with 100% mindfulness and tranquility, or keep piling on the workload until you can't even remember what you've just done, in an ever growing list of activities? I think your desire for a big wedding, and all of the mind boggling tasks that go with planning the same, is yet another symptom of your obsession to keep piling on the mental workload. Relax, let go of a good portion of what you're doing, smell the roses, breathe in, breathe out, find peace. Best of luck, to you.
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I dunno treeguy. The idea of slowing down as you suggest is really irksome to me. I mean, what's the point of doing that if all it does is make me upset? I don't know how I could alter my mindset to the point that I could think of it as a good thing, y'know? If I find that kind of "solution" abhorrent, is it really a solution? I'm not challenging you, I'm just voicing my own personal issues with what you suggest.

Here's the other thing; I have several friends who make the association between the hectic pace of their lives and their forgetfulness as you've suggested. They are very much looking forward to retirement so that they can slow down, and they feel certain that will restore their brains and its efficiency and they'll be able to remember more.

On the other hand, I know folks who ARE retired who, while they don't want to be back at work, still long for their days when their brains were far more active and able to hold a lot more information they can now. They are more of the mind that they were a lot less forgetful when there was more busyness in their lives and more to remember.

I know both of these sets of people well enough and for long enough that I've been able to observe their lives first hand, and I can attest to what they're saying is accurate.

Just that anecdotal information leads me to believe that there's far more to forgetfulness than simply having a life that is too hectic. Whether it's physiological, psychological, logistical, or a combination, or something else entirely, is beyond my ability to answer.

What I DO know is that when I become mindful about what I'm doing, whatever it may be, and just stay IN the moment doing what I'm doing, rather than thinking about everything else I need to accomplish, or working out a solution for this or that organizational problem, or trying to figure out what I'm doing to wear to the function tonight......when I can just focus on what I'm doing WHEN I'm doing it, I am less forgetful. I don't know what that says about me, but nonetheless it works.
 
Chucktin said:
The difference between Short Term memory, Near Term memory, and Long Term memory?
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I think the Near Term memory you refer to is typically referred to as Working Memory, Chucktin.

https://examinedexistence.com/difference-between-short-term-long-term-and-working-memory/


"Short-term memory differs from long-term memory in two fundamental ways, with only short-term memory demonstrating temporal decay and capacity limits. Long-term memory however, can store vast amounts of information and is permanent.

Short-term memory gives the ability for the human brain to keep information in the mind for a very short period of time, such as remembering a phone number long enough until you are able to dial it on our phones. The extent of short-term memory lasts within seconds to minutes then dissipates if effort is not made to retain the information for long-term use.

It is commonly believed that the capacity of short-term memory (and also working memory) is 7 +/- 2. That is, on average, humans are able to hold seven random and unrelated objects simultaneously in the short-term memory bank, give or take 2. In other words, short-term memory holds about 5-9 items at one time. This is also known as human memory span.

It is believed that short-term memory is a primary function of the prefrontal cortex. Once memory is consolidated (via long-term potentiation), it is carried over to the hippocampus wherein long-term memories are formed and stored permanently. This conversion from short-term to long-term memory requires concerted effort, the passage of time, and the absence of interference in memory consolidation.

Things learned on a daily basis dissipate unless consolidation takes place, in which it is transferred into the long-term memory bank. So how does consolidation take place? It takes place with repetition and review. The more something is repeated and used, the more neuronal connections the brain makes, wherein the neural pathways used for the specific information become stronger. In the process, the synapses become stronger between the two neurons as signals are more frequently passed between them.

In addition, sleeping has been said to be important in the consolidation of memory and learning. Studies of rats found that that more genes are expressed during sleep, and activities displayed during spatial learning are replayed in the hippocampus during sleep........"


 
I learned to play bridge in my 20's during my only marriage and had to give it up to work full time after divorce....so 40 some yrs later I picked it up again when retirement. I have NO DESIRE to be working ever again. Anyway, people headed into their 100s' are out there playing bridge....sadly it's disappeared from the young tech world. Now it's all buttons....

Anyway, I had to give up bridge again due to my not being able to sit for hours to play and use the brain. My knee and back can't sit that long. A friend thru the bridge world passed a couple yrs ago at 95 and she was sharp sharp sharp...played a LOT of bridge.

The Trivia games here keep me somewhat working the brain.
 
jaminhealth said:
I learned to play bridge in my 20's during my only marriage and had to give it up to work full time after divorce....so 40 some yrs later I picked it up again when retirement. I have NO DESIRE to be working ever again. Anyway, people headed into their 100s' are out there playing bridge....sadly it's disappeared from the young tech world. Now it's all buttons....

Anyway, I had to give up bridge again due to my not being able to sit for hours to play and use the brain. My knee and back can't sit that long. A friend thru the bridge world passed a couple yrs ago at 95 and she was sharp sharp sharp...played a LOT of bridge.

The Trivia games here keep me somewhat working the brain.
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AARP has this AI Bridge to offer.

https://games.aarp.org/games/bridge

I have Tabletop Simulator but no one to play with. This is a 2014 video. It's improved since then.


There are board and card games on Steam that can be played against AI or with people on the internet.
 
I like Olympian Labs and buy the 200mg capsules. I take one in am and one in later day. I have been taking Grape Seed Ex for going on 24 yrs. Starting out just take 1 cap per day...if you are "thin"...you might want to buy 100mg caps and take 1-2 daily.

Are you allergic to grapes? Do you take a pharma blood thinner, then can't take both...grape seed ex thins and cleans the blood.

I direct this to you Ronni since you mentioned quite a bit of forgetfulness....maybe it's all normal for you, maybe not. But prevention as in Grape Seed Ex cannot hurt...and Grape Seed Ex does so so much more too.
 

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