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Ricoh has launched an innovative digital postcard tool to help those affected by dementia, most commonly caused by Alzheimer’s disease, stay connected through personalised images.
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See how people with dementia and alzheimer’s can now live in the village they once knew again.
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Caring for dolls gives Dementia patients a sense of purpose, increases communication and reduces stress.
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Researchers at IUPUI have developed a Facebook app that, a study shows, offers a way to provide much-needed support to unpaid caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease.
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The transportation service Lyft is teaming up with the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation to help those who are participating in an Alzheimer’s trial get to and from U.S. and Canadian research sites.
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Extreme vigorous exercise seems to hold the key to staving off the symptoms.
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Three health occupation students at Whittier Tech are using music therapy as a way to help patients with Alzheimer’s disease communicate with family and friends.
After watching “Alive Inside” — a film that follows Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, as he works to combat memory loss in patients through the use of music — juniors Allasandra Thompson, of Haverhill, Larissa Havey, of Amesbury and Emily Shal, of Amesbury, wanted to replicate the process.
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You may not be a professional caregiver but as family of the Alzheimer’s patient you will be confronted with caring for them and interacting with them before you know it. The article in the link for today gives some important basic principles and reminders to help you through the first period.
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Interesting, the video on the page in the link for today highlights life style changes while the words on the site talk about a new compound that has been found that could prevent Alzheimer’s. Both are interesting to read/watch.
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Cognitive impairment is more and more recognized but people continue to underestimate the impact of it. Read the article in the link for today for a good overview.
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Dr. Jackson said he spotted “no issues whatsoever” with Trump’s mental ability during his first medical exam as a sitting president. Jackson said that Trump was “very sharp” and “articulate” and that he got a perfect score on a gold-standard dementia test.
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“There is encouraging evidence a higher adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with improving cognition, slowing cognitive decline or educing the conversion to Alzheimer’s,” said Roy Hardman, from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
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See the debate about whether or not to go with your loved one to Christmas mass.
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Wisconsin has developed a guide or training for caregivers online.
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In 2013, Ms Gregory and a few others started a nonprofit group and created a website (ApoE4.info) where the community could gather. Today the group has more than 2,000 members. They pore over medical journals, reach out to top researchers in the field and share notes about their experiments with diet, exercise and other lifestyle modifications.
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……..It’s not always bad. There’s good research on this about happiness and diagnoses. When people get diagnosed with a chronic terminal medical condition, oftentimes their mood can decrease, but if you give it enough time, usually they kind of bounce back a little bit – they start to cope with this,……
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A new study suggests that caregivers need and want to access support resources and that perhaps the experience of caregiving has made them consider the possibility of their own future needs. And there is no doubt that the current number and expected increase in the foreseeable future of individuals with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease will necessitate it.
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A great initiative from a couple that makes Socks to create awareness for Alzheimer’s.
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