Dementia
How Dementia Can Affect Your Sleep
The science of sleep is relatively new, but we can say this—the brain is the most active part of the body during sleep. So it stands to reason that dementia, a brain disease, disrupts sleep. Mos...
Read more5 Valuable Resources for Caregivers
5 Valuable Resources for Caregivers 1. A place for Mom - This website is brimming with useful information and articles that are great for helping you take care of a loved one.Includes the Caregive...
Read moreSigns It's Time for Assisted Living
As our loved ones age, we must look for signs that show they're no longer able to live independently. It's impressive that many elders maintain lives at home; they continue to drive, manage their o...
Read moreSubstance Abuse And Addiction In The Elderly
Drug and alcohol misuse, abuse, and addiction is of great concern no matter what the age of the user, however, these problems are unfortunately, and quite dangerously, all too prevalent within th...
Read moreHealthy Aging Into Your 80s and Beyond
Sixty years ago an American who made it to 65 could expect to live an additional 14 years. Today, it’s 19 years. The most important question then: how to grow older healthfully so that we can actua...
Read moreResearchers Identify Drugs That Promote Remyelination in Mice
source: Multiple Sclerosis News Today In a recent publication in Nature, titled “Drug-based modulation of endogenous stem cells promotes functional remyelination in vivo” a team of researchers fro...
Read more‘Ketogenic’ Pill to Treat Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
Source: Epilepsy Today Most anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) are believed to suppress seizures by affecting neuron activity in the brain. This new study – conducted by Tsuyoshi Inoue at Okayama Universi...
Read moreDementia 'Halted in Mice Brains'
A team at Duke University, showed immune cells which start attacking nutrients in the brain may be a trigger for the disease. They say their findings could open up new avenues of research for a fie...
Read morePlease tell us why you are involved in the Dementia community? Do you have Dementia? I am an independent emotional health & wellbeing practitioner and advanced trainee of Psychotherapy. I be...
Read moreDementia, Behaviors, Activities and their Benefits source: R.O.S. Therapy Systems One of the many causes that can lead to challenging behaviors for those with some form of dementia is bore...
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