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Sharon Arkin, PsyD, MEd, is a licensed clinical psychologist and Alzheimer’s rehabilitation consultant in Tucson, Arizona. From 1996 to 2001, she directed the Alzheimer’s Rehabilitation by Students Program (also known as Elder Rehab), a language-enriched exercise research project at the University of Arizona Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences. Funded by the National Institute on Aging, the program provided student-supervised physical fitness training, memory and language therapy and volunteer work experiences for mild- and moderate-stage Alzheimer’s patients. The program won two national awards and was the subject of a prizewinning video produced by the University of Arizona Center for Neurogenic Communication Disorders, which is included in this course. Dr. Arkin became interested in Alzheimer’s disease when her mother developed symptoms of the disease while Arkin was a doctoral student in Chicago. Many of the interventions she now uses were tried out on her mother, whom she credits with being a cooperative and good-natured "guinea pig."
Dr. Arkin is the author of twenty-eight articles and two websites on the subject of Alzheimer’s rehabilitation and has presented workshops and inservice training programs in Israel, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Finland, England, Scotland, Wales and Hawaii, and at national conferences of eight different professional organizations in the continental United States. Her Elder Rehab program is fully described on her University of Arizona website: www.u.arizona.edu/~sarkin/elderrehab.html. Her informative monograph on Alzheimer's and Exercise on the website of the National Center for Physical Activity and Disability can be seen at: www.ncpad.org/disability (click on Alzheimer's link).
She is currently developing a workshop on "fluency fitness after 50" aimed at baby boomers concerned about "senior moments." "Practice doesn't make perfect, but it sure does improve the situation," says Arkin. The workshop will demonstrate ways in which word games and mental exercise can be combined with physical exercise to build resistance to dementia in later life. She is also working with a Tucson nonprofit agency to re-establish the Elder Rehab program as a community service project.
The mother of three grown children and grandmother of two (almost 3!), Dr. Arkin lives with her two dogs and cat at Bed and Bagels of Tucson, a pet- and children-friendly bed and breakfast she operates in Tucson, Arizona (www.bedandbagels.com).
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