Notepad/post-its

• Write things down

• Keep your notepad in one place and check it often

Calendar

• Organize appointments on a calendar

Cell phone

• Use apps on your phone to jog your memory

Technology

• Use devices to jog your memory

Repeat what you are trying to remember over and over

Repeat them out loud or in your head

Write them over and over

Read them over and over

Listen to them over and over

This is a specific way to use repetition.

Known to help people living with Dementia.

Instructions:

• Write down what you are trying to remember

• Come back in 30 seconds to see if you remember.

  • Were you right? - Double the time.

  • Where you wrong? Cut the time in half.

Do this over and over until you get to longer and longer periods of time.

Pair what you are trying to remember with something you already know.

Create a detailed picture in your mind for what you are trying to remember.

Our minds remember things that are out of the ordinary so be creative with the picture that you imagine.

Grouping numbers has been shown to increase memory for numbers

You can group things that don't go together by creating a visualization for them

These are like acronyms but in sentence form.

Create a sentence where the first letter of each word helps you to remember something.

Examples:

• Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally for the order of operations in math.

  • (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction)

• King Philip came over for good spaghetti for the order of taxonomy in science.

  • (Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species)

Think of a path you are familiar with

Visualize what you are trying to remember along points of that path

Be on the look out for a video explaining this method