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Tips for Maintaining Brain Health

ByShara Bohach

from Brush Development's 10-Day Toolkit for Care Partners (Module #1)

As a gift to all the hard-working care partners, we are making From Surviving to Thriving: 10-Day Toolkit for Care Partners available at no cost. We will release one module each month. Each module consists of a 10-minute video and printables. Whether you are a family or a professional care partner, we have taken the most important yet challenging situations of caregiving and made a toolkit full of resources for you to try out. It only takes 10 minutes a day for 10 days. Get started below!

Module #1: Tips for Maintaining Brain Health

Free Resources:

  • Watch the video
  • Tips to Maintaining Brain Health (free printable)
  • Daily Planner (free printable)
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