Frontotemporal dementia

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• Old Letters, Old Friends

  
  The Elder Storytelling Place — Authority: 123
  By Jeanne Waite Follett Spring 2005 My husband doesnt know my name. After thirty years of love and companionship, he no longer knows what part I play in his life. He comes up the stairs into the loft where I am working at the computer. Everything appears normal. Hes a hale and healthy man of 75, though lately ...
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• Swedish Heavyweight Champ Ingemar Johansson In Profile

  
  Gambling Gurus — Authority: 148
  Former world heavyweight boxing champion Ingemar Johannson died at a nursing home in his native Kungsbacka, Sweden at the age of 76 early in 2009. No official cause of death was given, but Johansson recently returned to the nursing home after a difficult bout with pneumonia. Johansson had moved to the nursing home on ...
  5 hours ago

• Mother, Daughter Accused of Theft

  
  National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse — Authority: 440
  A mother and daughter were arrested by city police Thursday afternoon, accused of bilking their 93-year-old relative, who has dementia and other ailments, for nearly $21,000. Police say Robin Lynn Walgrave, 39, and Patience Walgrave, 19, were supposed to be taking care of the younger Walgraves paternal ...
  7 hours ago

• The Validation Breakthrough: Techniques for Communicating with People with Alzheimers and Dementia

  
  Alzheimer's Reading Room — Authority: 504
  If you live with or care for someone with Alzheimers or dementia, you should consider reading this book. The Validation Breakthrough will help you understand why Alzheimers sufferers say what they say and do what they do. This book helps you understand communication that is often difficult to accept and hard to ...
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• Two Sides of the Same Story: Laskas & Gladwell on CTE & the NFL

  
  blprnt.blg — Authority: 486
  In October, I read a fascinating article on GQ.com about head injuries among former NFL players. Written by Jeanne Marie Laskas, the article was a forensic detective story, documenting a little known doctor’s efforts to bring the brain trauma issue to the attention of the medical community, the NFL, and the ...
  8 hours ago

• Simple Techniques for Communicating with People with Alzheimers and Dementia

  
  The CareGiver — Authority: 103
  If you live with or care for someone with Alzheimers or dementia, you should consider reading this book. The Validation Breakthrough will help you understand why Alzheimers sufferers say what they say and do what they do. This book helps you understand communication that is often difficult to accept and hard to ...
  8 hours ago

• Dealing with Dementia/Older Relatives

  
  Last 20 Posts — Authority: 169
  We have an 87 year old Grandfather who we suspect is getting some form of Dementia. Weve noticed some major personality changes in the last 5 years and he is becoming increasingly cranky and difficult to deal with. He still has good days - but these are getting further and further apart. He used to have ...
  12 hours ago

• Inner Elf

  
  coupledumb.com — Authority: 121
            It is Monday of a crazy week in the CoupleDumb. And we really mean crazy because this week’s theme is losing your mind. We’re not talking about the clinical slow slip into dementia kind of insanity but the kind that takes you because you have just chosen to abandon your senses and give into a ...
  15 hours ago

• The Secret Thats Right Under Your Nose & Will Change Your LIfe Forever!

  
  Covered in Cat Hair — Authority: 430
  During the course of my life, Ive never had a purebred cat. All my cats were rescued from the Pound or sort of fell into my lap. While I figure one day Ill find a purebred that needs to be rescued, for now its just me and a house full of "mutts." That is... ...until I decided to watch Cats 101 on Animal Planet ...
  16 hours ago

• Baby Fat

  
  What Do I Do Now? — Authority:
  When I was on my own after my husband entered a dementia facility, I resolved to wrestle with all the things that had dogged me over the years, issues that I never had dealt with and that were keeping me from being the woman I wanted to be. Of course all of the inner work took place over years and I have certainly not ...
  20 hours ago

• Mike Treder - Memory and Insanity

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 440
  If you could remember every detail of your life, would it make you insane? I do not think I would want to be able to remember that much of my life. Psyche limits what we can recall for a reason, and I would not want to mess with that. Memory and Insanity Mike Treder Mike Treder ...
  21 hours ago

• H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Deaths Being Reported All Over Europe

  
  Heidi-Lore's Musings — Authority: 127
  Normally people do not drop dead after taking a vaccine. More commonly, the adverse effects of taking a vaccine take a while to show up, as only later victims develop autism, dementia, neurological disorders, paralysis, infertility or cancer (among a wide variety of other conditions). However, numerous reports are now ...
  21 hours ago

• Dementia Research – Report

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 140
  Report from the Ministerial Summit on Dementia Research   November, 2009, International Longevity Centre UK Click on the title above to access the full-text Abstract: One of the commitments made in the National Dementia Strategy was to hold a Ministerial Summit on Dementia Research. This took place on ...
  21 hours ago

• Alzheimers Patients Respond to Dolls

  
  Alzheimer's Reading Room — Authority: 504
  This is a wonderful idea and I am sure others would be interested in following their lead. ...the daughter felt sad and "shook up" when leaving St. Elizabeths after a visit. "After we gave her the baby doll, I never felt sad again when I left," she said. "So it was very liberating for me......" Two Catonsville ...
  22 hours ago

• Kids popping pills that can kill

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 149
  Grandmas memory isnt as good as it was a decade ago. Shes convinced some of her prescription meds are missing. You pass it off as old age – your teen agrees. But stuffed inside the pocket of your boys skinny jeans are Grandmas blood pressure and dementia pills. Tonight he will share them with his pals. He will be ...
  22 hours ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  dementia views you can use — Authority: 425
  Here is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can be Here are more interesting dementia brain boosting activities Here is a dementia Thanksgiving activity redOrbit One of the many mysteries of Alzheimers disease is ...
  23 hours ago

• Grey’s Anatomy Season 6 Episode 9 Preview

  
  dingoRUE — Authority: 444
  Grey’s Anatomy Season 6 Episode 9 New History airs Thursday November 12 at 9/8c on ABC. OWEN RECRUITS A WOMAN FROM HIS PAST, TEDDY ALTMAN, AS THE NEW CARDIO DOC, RAISING CRISTINA’S SUSPICIONS ABOUT THEIR PRIOR RELATIONSHIP AND TEDDY’S QUALIFICATIONS, ON ABC’S “GREY’S ANATOMY” Guest Starring Kim Raver ...
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• Caregiver Stress Anxiety May Be the Worst

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 426
  Taking care of my mother for nine years taught me about caregiver stress. My mother had progressive dementia and, as the years passed, she turned into a stranger. I didn’t know her any more. Though my husband often helped with caregiving tasks, most of the responsibilities were mine. Caregiving became a lonely ...
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• Will Gladys Get the Boot?

  
  A Caregiver's Journal — Authority: 108
  Recently my husband, Fred, went to pick Gladys up from Adult Day Care and he got an ear full.  It seems that Mrs. Rooney (Gladys) has been acting out, having temper outbursts and being a prima donna. While all of this is apparently news to the center, it is not news to us.  When we first took Gladys to the center ...
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• PEBS News Roundup from Johns Hopkins

  
  Neuroethics & Law Blog — Authority: 422
  Last Editions Most Popular Article Prescribing Cognitive Enhancers: A Primer Bioethics Forum October 28 2009 In the Academic Literature: The pathways of interoceptive awareness   Nature Neuroscience November 1 2009 Auditory plasticity and speech ...
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