Memory and Brain Health Expert Dr. Robert Winningham Joins Linked Senior Board of Advisors
Dr. Winningham will help the Linked Senior management team in the development of their product and strategy for the next 3-5 years.
Washington, DC, May 03, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Linked Senior Inc., a next generation technology provider helping senior care leaders improve the quality of life of their residents, announced today the addition of Dr. Rob Winningham to its Board of Advisors. Dr. Winningham is a professor of psychology and Chair of the Psychology Division (includes Gerontology & Psychology Departments) at Western Oregon University. He specializes in memory and the psychology of aging. His goal is to network with geriatric professionals to help older adults improve their quality of life.
Dr. Winningham will help the Linked Senior management team in the development of their product and strategy for the next 3-5 years, contribute his experience and knowledge to reinforce the brain health dimension of the Linked Senior service and bring his familiarity in porting the latest research to real-life, usable, person centered activities to dependent seniors.
“Linked Senior is providing an unmet need in the retirement housing industry that bridges the gap between staff and resident. As an Advisory Board member, I look forward to helping them create additional content and interventions to improve older adults’ cognitive abilities and quality of life,” states Dr. Winningham.
According to Charles De Vilmorin, Linked Senior CEO, “Dr. Rob Winningham is one of the most well versed professionals in his field. In addition to being at the top of his game and contributing to the most current research on brain health, he is one of the only experts to have experience in taking recent research results and applying them to real life situations with seniors. His excellent communication skills makes him an amazing trainer and team member. It is truly an honor for Linked Senior to have such talent on our advisory board.”
Dr. Rob Winningham has nearly 20 years of experience researching applied memory issues and has conducted research on older adults for the past 15 years. He has developed programs to improve older adults’ cognitive and physical well-being and has trained over 4000 instructors in North America to offer similar programs. Dr. Winningham received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 2000 from Baylor University. In addition to publishing many peer-reviewed articles in the area of human memory and gerontology, Dr. Winningham has made television and radio appearances and has given well over 500 invited presentations about memory and aging at various conferences and workshops. His book Train Your Brain: How to Maximize Memory Ability in Older Adulthood was published by Baywood Publishing in 2010.
Headquartered in Washington DC, Linked Senior Inc. is one of the leading providers of technology solutions for wellness and programming for the senior housing market. Its vision is to enhance the quality of life in senior communities through better access to information, entertainment, education, and therapy. The service opens communities to the world while helping management improve their programming, productivity and efficiencies.
Linked Senior uses simple technology to support wellness in a social, interactive, meaningful and engaging way. The system includes a touch screen and content tailored for seniors. Some of the features included are games, puzzles, visual experiences for reminiscence, brain fitness, educational and therapy tools. More information can be found here: www.linkedsenior.com.
Dr. Winningham will help the Linked Senior management team in the development of their product and strategy for the next 3-5 years, contribute his experience and knowledge to reinforce the brain health dimension of the Linked Senior service and bring his familiarity in porting the latest research to real-life, usable, person centered activities to dependent seniors.
“Linked Senior is providing an unmet need in the retirement housing industry that bridges the gap between staff and resident. As an Advisory Board member, I look forward to helping them create additional content and interventions to improve older adults’ cognitive abilities and quality of life,” states Dr. Winningham.
According to Charles De Vilmorin, Linked Senior CEO, “Dr. Rob Winningham is one of the most well versed professionals in his field. In addition to being at the top of his game and contributing to the most current research on brain health, he is one of the only experts to have experience in taking recent research results and applying them to real life situations with seniors. His excellent communication skills makes him an amazing trainer and team member. It is truly an honor for Linked Senior to have such talent on our advisory board.”
Dr. Rob Winningham has nearly 20 years of experience researching applied memory issues and has conducted research on older adults for the past 15 years. He has developed programs to improve older adults’ cognitive and physical well-being and has trained over 4000 instructors in North America to offer similar programs. Dr. Winningham received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 2000 from Baylor University. In addition to publishing many peer-reviewed articles in the area of human memory and gerontology, Dr. Winningham has made television and radio appearances and has given well over 500 invited presentations about memory and aging at various conferences and workshops. His book Train Your Brain: How to Maximize Memory Ability in Older Adulthood was published by Baywood Publishing in 2010.
Headquartered in Washington DC, Linked Senior Inc. is one of the leading providers of technology solutions for wellness and programming for the senior housing market. Its vision is to enhance the quality of life in senior communities through better access to information, entertainment, education, and therapy. The service opens communities to the world while helping management improve their programming, productivity and efficiencies.
Linked Senior uses simple technology to support wellness in a social, interactive, meaningful and engaging way. The system includes a touch screen and content tailored for seniors. Some of the features included are games, puzzles, visual experiences for reminiscence, brain fitness, educational and therapy tools. More information can be found here: www.linkedsenior.com.
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www.linkedsenior.com
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