What is orientation in cognitive functions?

Orientation is the cognitive ability that allows individuals to be aware of themselves and their surroundings at all times.

What are the types of orientation?

The three types of orientation are: - **Personal orientation**: Awareness of personal history and identity, such as age, civil status, or education level. - **Temporal orientation**: Understanding of time-related information, including day, time, month, year, and seasons. - **Spatial orientation**: Awareness of one's location, where one is coming from, and where one is heading.

How can orientation be improved?

Orientation can be enhanced through targeted cognitive activities, such as answering questions about personal life, telling the time, identifying months and seasons, and connecting objects to their typical locations.

What resources does NeuronUP offer for orientation rehabilitation?

NeuronUP provides various activities designed to rehabilitate orientation, including tasks that focus on personal, temporal, and spatial orientation.

Orientation

Q: Why is orientation important?

Orientation is crucial for daily life, enabling individuals to locate themselves and others in specific places and times, and to perform appropriate activities accordingly.

There are three types of orientation:

• Personal orientation: the ability to integrate information relating to personal history and identity such as our age, civil status, or education level.

• Temporal orientation: the ability to manage information about different events or situations, and place them in chronological order. This is information relating to day, time, month, year, the moment of performing certain behaviors, holidays, seasons, etc.

• Spatial orientation: the ability to handle information relating to where one is coming from, where one is at a specific moment, where one is heading to, etc.

Why is orientation important?

One of the most important aspects of life is knowing how to locate ourselves and others in a specific place or point in time. In order to do so, we must be aware of ourselves and our surroundings which involves determining our proper location in time and space.

At any given moment, we need to know which day or time it is and which activities to perform (to have breakfast in the morning, to go to bed at night, to spend time with hobbies during the weekend, etc.).

NeuronUP activities for the rehabilitation of orientation

To rehabilitate personal orientation, we have designed activities in which patients have to answer a series of questions regarding their personal life. These activities can vary in level of difficulty and assistance depending on the patient’s specific needs.

To improve temporal orientation, there are tasks in which patients must tell the time, the month, and the seasons of the year.

For spatial orientation, there are exercises in which patients connect different objects to the places where they can be purchased and the professionals who work in these places.