Archive for the ‘Dementia, Alzheimers’

  • Senior Health | Don’t Miss the Warning Signs of Alzheimers among Family Members
    Senior Living By Jan Shapan: The aging process for many seniors invokes fears of losing mental capacity. The decline in mental fitness often triggers a search for the best research and early warning signs of dementia or the dreaded Alzheimers disease. The early signs of Alzheimers can begin in the 50s which is a surprise to most people but the hardest hit demographic ...
    June 2nd, 2010 at 08:06 am
  • For Seniors: Is There a Connection Between Oral Health and Heart Health?
    Oral Health - A Beautiful SmileBy Jan Shapan: With growing confidence, physicians and dentists are confirming the powerful link between oral health and your risks of heart problems. The evidence doesn’t suggest that the link is causal—the condition of your mouth actually causing a heart attack—only that a clear association seems to exist. For example the International ...
    March 31st, 2010 at 07:03 am
  • Dementia Is Not Mental Illness
    Dementia CareAs a caregiver of people with dementia, I just hate to hear people applying the language of psychiatry to dementia. It simply serves to create barriers to relationship and understanding. It doesn’t help at all. Instead it encourages family members, who may well not understand the differences, to think of their Mom or Dad or Grandpa as being mentally ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 01:03 am
  • Elder Care – Talking Books – Free Entertainment You May Have Missed
    Talking Books for Seniors by Esther E. Hansen :: An often overlooked way to enjoy the advantages of reading is to make use of Talking Books. The pleasure my mother drew from them is something I remember as a happy segment of my own caregiving days. Prior to the advent of talking books in our home we had both enjoyed listening to read-aloud times on a radio station. The ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 01:03 am
  • Brain Tips for Senior Citizens: How to have Good Mental Health in Retirement
    Staying Mentally Healthy :: by Janet Shapan :: The light of understanding is shining brighter when it comes to the human mind. For too long culture has presumed that little could be done to preserve or enhance the capabilities of our brains. But those days are gone. Leaders in science are peeling back the layers of the human mind and revealing an incredible pattern-making ...
    February 22nd, 2010 at 12:02 am
  • Popular Mind-Enhancing Facebook Games for Seniors
    Online Games for Seniors :: by Karl Edmunds :: Where can I find games on the internet? What are the best games to play? These questions and many others highlight the desire by seniors to use the internet for games and mental stimulation. And one of the premier sites to find stimulating games is Facebook. Facebook games offer seniors a way to break free from the strenuous ...
    February 16th, 2010 at 02:02 pm
  • Helping Your Patients Prevent Mental Decline and Alzheimer’s
    Memory, Dementia, Alzheimer's Prevention By James P. Meschino, DC, MS As we age, a number of factors predispose us to a decline in memory capacity and the development of more severe forms of cognitive decline such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. One of these factors is the lifetime accumulation of free-radical damage to brain cells induced by the brain’s ...
    January 28th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
  • Aging Parents Don’t Need Fixers…They Need Listeners
    by Karl Edmunds Finding myself in the Boomers category has brought me some interesting insights.  In the process of caring for my own aging parents, I have noticed my initial inclination to want to fix them, to remind them, to give answers and solutions and ultimately to transform their behavior to align with my own expectations. This arrogance is born out of my ...
    January 13th, 2010 at 11:01 am
  • How to Monitor Aging Relatives & Parents from a Distance
    Staying In Touch by Karl Edmunds The most profound impact to aging seniors is often the slow loss of control as the years go by.  This lack of control may occur when you suddenly have restrictions on where or when you can drive a car.  Or, as a child, you are forced to take the car keys away from your parents. One of the last key measures of control is the enduring desire ...
    January 13th, 2010 at 09:01 am
  • Senior Caregivers | The Stress Caring for a Seniors
    Caring for Seniors by Grace Enderlein : Most Americans will be informal caregivers at some point during their lives. Each year more than 44 million Americans (21% of the adult population) provide unpaid care to an elderly or disabled person who are 18 years or older. This is significant! It represents 80 percent of all long-term care in the United States. Most caregivers ...
    December 31st, 2009 at 02:12 pm
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