Knowledge base
Questions about your memory are not the kind you ask out loud. Here are the answers to what people ask us most, written out without hurry and without anything to download first.
We do not diagnose. What we do is explain what is known, what it means and what you can do with it.
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Forgetful: what is normal?
Being forgetful is very common. Usually it comes with getting older, or with something that fills your head for a while: a busy time, stress, poor sleep or low mood. When that cause eases, remembering often gets better too.
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Forgetfulness or cognitive decline
Almost everyone becomes more forgetful over the years, and that belongs to ordinary ageing. We speak of cognitive decline only when several functions work less well, when it gradually gets worse, and when it starts to affect daily life. The difference is not in a single moment, then, but in how often it happens, what it affects, and whether you and the people around you notice it.
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Measuring your brain health at home
With short tests and questionnaires you can keep track at home of how your memory, your speech and your everyday functioning are doing. The Remind app does exactly that: it shows what is normal for you, whether that is changing, and which factors affect your own risk of dementia. Remind does not diagnose.
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The first signs of dementia
The first signs of dementia are often small and come gradually: forgetting recent things, asking the same question more often, struggling with tasks that always came naturally, such as money matters or planning, and having trouble finding words or following a conversation. One sign says little. What matters is changes that build up over months and that others notice too.
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Forgetting names and a poor short-term memory
Forgetting names is one of the most common memory complaints, and usually entirely ordinary. A name is a loose piece of information with no meaning attached, so it is the first thing to slip, especially when you are tired, busy or distracted. A short-term memory that seems to be failing is also often a matter of attention rather than of memory itself. It becomes a signal when it happens more often than it used to, concerns people you know well, or when others notice it too.
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More to read
What Remind measures
Five articles on the measurements themselves: what they do, what they rest on and what you get out of them.
What you can do yourself
Fifteen factors you can influence, and why lifestyle matters more to your brain than most people think.