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Cognitive Assessment

You will take a battery of science-based cognitive tests which assess core areas like memory, attention, and processing speed. Plan to set aside 20 minutes.

Lifestyle Check-Ins

Lifestyle Check-Ins allow you to understand your personal habits around the six pillars of brain health: Be social, Engage your brain, Manage stress, Ongoing execise, Restorative sleep and Eat right. Plan to set aside 20 minutes.

Additonal Tests

A second suite of tests will explore additional skills like non-verbal reasoning, spatial processing, verbal reasoning, to round out your understanding of your cognitive skills. Plan to set aside 20 minutes.

Why take the Cognitive Assessment
and Lifestyle Check-Ins?

Knowledge is power. Taking the Cognitive Assessment and Lifestyle Check-Ins can give you a view into how you’re performing today and enable you to learn about strategies to help support brain health as you age.

To prepare for the assessment, please consider these guidelines:

Find a quiet room with no distractions. Put your pets in another room and switch your phone to silent mode.
Get a good night's sleep the day before taking the assessment so you are well rested.
Pay careful attention to the instructions before each test.
Set aside at least 40 minutes to complete the assessment.

Review Your Cognitive Score

Your results are a snapshot of how your brain performed in five key areas: processing speed, sustained attention, working memory, cognitive flexibility and recognition memory.

The Cognitive Assessment and Lifestyle Check-Ins are available to retake every 30 days.

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