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• Promotion to Potted Plant

  
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  One of the realities of dementia is the lost of language.  It’s clear my Mom recognizes that there is a connection between her and I but she gets very creative in describing what that connection is.  She has at times identified me as either her Father or her Husband although her most common descriptor of me is ...
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• Keeping Communication Flowing with Alzheimers Patients

  
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  Communicating with a loved one who has Alzheimer’s disease or another similar form of dementia can be challenging sometimes. As the disease progresses, it is increasingly difficult for caregivers to catch and hold their attention. At times, Alzheimer’s patients seem to ignore us, and at other times they ...
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• APA Leaders Defend DSM-5

  
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  SAN FRANCISCO — The fifth edition of the “psychiatrist’s bible” was officially released here in all its 947-page glory, with its developers offering a spirited rebuttal to their critics. Known as DSM-5, the new version of the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...
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• Scientists Develop Drug That Improves Memory and Prevents Brain Damage in Mice

  
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  A drug developed by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, known as J147, improves memory and prevents brain damage in aged mice following short-term treatment. The findings, published May 14 in the journal Alzheimers Research and Therapy, may pave the way to a new treatment for Alzheimers disease in ...
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• Dementia Awareness Week should promote the use of the Montessori method

  
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  This week is Dementia Awareness Week; a time to reflect on the huge numbers of people with this illness who are living in care homes which have nothing to offer their residents beyond the most basic of care. I have visited too many of these sorts of “homes” and been shocked to see elderly residents, [...]
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• Brain Foods for Readers and Writers

  
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  For a long time, I’ve been experiencing brain glitches. That’s what I call it when I can’t think of the right word or name. It’s frustrating because I know this word, but it’s just slipped out of my brain. photo credit: *n*o*o*r* via photopin cc I’m proactive, and right away I did something ...
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• Siblings Disagree About Mom Seeking Dementia Evaluation

  
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  Dear Carol: My sister Jean has wanted our mom to see a doctorabout memory issues for months but Mom says she’s fine. Jean lives out of town,so she set aside a day to come into town and take Mom to lunch and get Mom’shair cut. Then, Jean sprung a doctor appointment on Mom and, not surprisingly,Mom refused to go. ...
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• Is Eating Breakfast Overrated?

  
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  Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right? Not so fast. That old adage is facing more and more scrutiny due to increasing research. We have been told incessantly that skipping breakfast leads to fat gain, muscle loss, increased cravings, and moodiness. In fact, for some it could be quite the contrary. If ...
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• Hello It Is I............

  
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  I have been posting a number of articles of late and very little about my world. I think that is because I have fallen into the trap of others of being shall we say pansy. Well this disease is kicking my ass now and no more time to be gentle about it. Screw the so calls that say we need high profile people to promote ...
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• AARP Launches New Crusade Against Memory Loss

  
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  With brain health being of paramount concern as the U.S. population ages, AARP has launched a Brain Fitness initiative to help older Americans maintain brain function and improve memory capacity over time.  “Brain Fitness,” powered by BrainHQ includes five major pillars: healthy eating, fitness, working your ...
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• Redefining Life After the Death of a Care Receiver

  
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  Many of us start our caregiving career by assisting an elder in his or her home, or we have a spouse who declines and we become the default caregiver in our own home. This care expands to a point where we need some type of respite, often in the form of in-home care agency help. Eventually, the move to assisted living ...
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• Stay in good health

  
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   You can start at any age. Even at 70 years old should not stay on the couch all day. So even less excuse when youre young.     The second good news Power is unnecessary, and moderate physical activity, and reduce shortness of breath, simply dope our brains. Sports 30 minutes a day is sufficient to reduce ...
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• Keep your brain young

  
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  Benefits of sport to keep your brain young And reflected the benefits of sport to the degeneration of the brain to prevent, as is the case in Alzheimers disease through scientific experiments. To maintain the current trend to the brain young and prevent degeneration is the spiritual exercises such as puzzles, ...
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• Give your Liver and Kidneys a Holiday!

  
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  Glutamate is an amino acid produced in the body by the Krebs Cycle. It utilizes the bodies toxic waste product ammonia in an enzyme catalyzed reaction to produce glutamine, the most abundant amino acid in the human body. Both glutamine and glutamate together serve the body in more functional roles than any other ...
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• Rat Study Shows How Brain Rewires Itself After Injury

  
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  When the brain’s primary learning center is damaged, new neural circuits arise to compensate for the lost function, a new study has found. Researchers from the University of California-Los Angeles and Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia found that parts of the prefrontal cortex take over when the ...
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• Caregiving Often Starts After the Death of One Parent

  
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  ...The death of a parent is tough, whether its sudden or a long time coming. The advantage of a slower death is that there may have been more time to prepare, however human nature being what is, often people dont use that time well. Of course, a sudden death can throw everyone back by the very nature of the shock. ...
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• Patrick Hruby: The Wrong Man For The Job

  
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  EDITOR’S NOTE: Is there a pattern here? As always, nothing ever really changes with the NFL (and the NFLPA by association). After years of propaganda and misinformation, the League announced that Dr. No Ira Casson and Dr. Yes Elliot Pellman would no longer be running the MTBI Committee (that’s the MILD Traumatic ...
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• Dementia Awareness Week 19-25 May #talkdementia

  
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  Dementia Awareness Week 19-25 May I am proud to support  Dementia Awareness  Week. The term ‘ dementia ‘ describes a set of symptoms that include loss of memory, mood changes, and problems with communication and reasoning. There are many types of dementia . The most common ...
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• Nonmelanoma skin cancer is associated with reduced Alzheimer disease risk

  
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  To explore the association of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) and Alzheimer disease (AD) in the Einstein Aging Study, an epidemiologic study of aging in New York City. Methods:  Community-residing volunteers aged 70 years or older were assessed annually, followed by multidisciplinary diagnostic consensus. Cancer ...
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• Treatment of Alzheimer s disease dementia discovered

  
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  Potential treatment of Parkinsons, Alzheimers disease a new drug found A drug that is currently used to help find the treatment of leukemia, the production of toxic proteins in the brain with Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons disease and various forms of dementia . Researchers at Georgetown University ...
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