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Journalism junior Michael Baez, theatre and dance senior Callie Hacker and theatre and dance junior Selina Rosales created “Eye See … I Forget” to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative illness that impacts memory and cognitive function.
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Pippa Kelly made me aware of the great work the Life Story Network does.
Discovering George Arthur Moss through his Life Story Book reminded me that we are all so much more than the aspect we present to a stranger for the very first time. When we’re independent and can communicate clearly, this doesn’t much matter, but if and when our health fails or for some reason we become dependent on others, it is vital for them to know who we are. Of course it is. Put like that, it sounds so obvious, so simple, so human.
Read all about the Life Story Network HERE Pippa’s blog is HERE
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Dr. Lewis E. Winans, senior medical director at Reading Hospital, described Alzheimer’s as devastating and difficult to diagnose. Certainly, doctors don’t want to make the diagnosis until they are sure, he said.Talking to patients about Alzheimer’s is more difficult than talking about cancer, he said, because there has been so much medical progress in treating various cancers.”The problem is (with Alzheimer’s) there is no treatment to cure it,” Winans explained. “There is medicine that slows the progression.” –
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Written from a child’s perspective a story about how the writer gets introduced to dementia and alzheimer over the years.
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HERE is a great initiative!
“Once you get the diagnosis [of Alzheimer’s], you’re identified as either the patient or the caregiver. You start to feel less like spouses,” said Tom Allen, who takes a half-day of vacation on Wednesdays so he can attend the rehearsals at the MacPhail Center for Music in downtown Minneapolis. “In this environment, we’re husband and wife. This is one of the few things that we can still do as a couple. … We love this choir.”
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A clever new analysis has found that during his two terms in office, subtle changes in Mr. Reagan’s speaking patterns linked to the onset of dementia were apparent years before doctors diagnosed hisAlzheimer’s disease in 1994.
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