Complementary medicines for cognition

Advancing age can be accompanied by a decline in neurocognitive abilities including reasoning, episodic and working memory. This may result in difficulties locating items around the home, keeping appointments, remembering information, and talking about recent events; and may impact significantly on the lives of older adults.1 Successful cognitive ageing involves both preventing the loss of information processing capacity and cognitive reserve, as well as enhancing brain capacity and cognitive reserve.