New research shows that a friend who listens and using technology to stay in touch increases brain volume, improves cognition by ‘4-years worth’, and staves off dementia.
The risk of getting dementia increases with age, but new data shows that 80 year-olds who exercise have less risk than younger, sedentary adults.
The most important aspect of dementia care is helping to hold intact the identity of the person with dementia (Kitwood, 2010) As the disease progresses it can seem that the person has changed and is not recognisable as who he/she used to be. But changed behaviour does not mean that the person has disappeared.
In her book Dr Jennifer Bute tells of how people with dementia have been enabled to communicate. In this Zoom meeting she describes the techniques that are the most effective, and the results.
Losing a sense of smell has been shown in studies going back to 2017 an indicator that the person is developing dementia, and following the principle of ‘use it or lose it’, Louise Morse intends to exercise her capacity by smelling the new wild rhubarb disinfectant spray.
Fast food eateries are familiar and comfortable social spaces that older people like, says recent research from Michigan. And socialising boosts cognitive health, and reduces the risk of dementia.
Analysis of late data following unsuccessful trials of an ‘anti-Alzheimer’s’ drug showed that it might help a few people if given earlier and in larger doses. Now approval for further trials are to be fast tracked through the American FDA
Scott Mitchell is grieving now that his beloved wife, Barbara Windsor, is in a care home with dementia. A little book written by experts can help make the most of visiting.
Looking after an ‘indifferent’ parent with dementia who was cold to you as a child is tough.
Written for dementia caregivers: Shakespeare’s sonnett 116 describes the love that alters not when alteration finds
What is happening when someone with deep dementia, whose brain scans show significant damage, becomes lucid for a while again, with all the faculties he’d apparently lost? We are more than the sum of our parts.
The danger that dementia poses for all of us, and the heartbreaking stories of people struggling with it, who need care.
Excluded from the care home because of the Covid crisis, each day he blows a kiss over the wall to his wife of 49 years.
Feeling all at sea is how memory loss can feel – and husbands or wives who can’t visit their other halves in care homes because of the Covid crisis. The Bible has a verse to reflect on to bring peace.
Thousands of people caring for a loved one with dementia are cut off from people who normally encourage and help them, because of the Coronavirus crisis. They need our prayers – and deserve our applause!
A carer in one of our homes, now retired, tells about the time she was sitting with two elderly ladies in one of our homes,
A word we hear often today is that someone is ‘broken’. They’ve experienced a catastrophe, perhaps a betrayal, a bereavement, or something else that has left them heartbroken, feeling shattered and worthless.
Negative emotions have detrimental physical affects, especially if you are caring for a loved one with dementia
As his wife holds him in his fights with dementia’s night terrors, Norm’s biggest fear is that he will injure and hurt her. He writes this post so that other caregivers like her will know that it’s the illness, and not the person, and that they are not alone.
Israeli scientists say that the BCG vaccine used to treat bladder cancer, may prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
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