Do you rely on lists during shopping trips or sticky notes in your car to remind you to pick up Fido from the groomer?

Have you felt a sense of dread after washing your hands, realizing that an important name or number you’d written on them had also washed down the drain?

If so, Lee Memorial Health System is offering memory classes at several locations during July at varied times.

“Our memory classes are designed to teach participants tools and techniques to retain and remember more information,” says program coordinator Sue Maxwell. “They are part of the system’s Healthy Brain Initiative, which we started to help residents boost brain power and fight the onset of memory disorders. Since we started the classes, hundreds of residents have participated and given us rave reviews. “

The cost is $20 per person, plus $10 for a class workbook. To find out where and when classes will be held, you may go to: www.leememorial.org/healthybrainfl/classes.asp.