Alzheimer’s disease

Music as Medicine
How music can help relieve chronic pain

"Despite what we have learned and what we are now beginning to practice, there has been little work on chronic pain. This area of growing importance refers to pain either from an ongoing disease or that continues beyond the normal time that a wound usually takes to heal." Author:  [...]

Mindful Presence
How reducing the number of stressful events in our lives could help beat dementia

"But is the onset of something as complex as Alzheimer’s disease likely to come down to a simple numbers game, in which one too many stressful events mean it’s game over?"    August 9, 2017 | Author:  Claire J. Hanley, PhD, Swansea University Stress is bad for our physical and [...]

Mindful Presence - body, mind, spirit
Could ‘love hormone’ oxytocin help treat Alzheimer’s disease? Here’s what researchers currently know

"The study investigated what role oxytocin had in memory." - Author: Eleftheria Kodosaki, PhD, Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom   July 27, 2020 Oxytocin is often called “the love hormone” because of its role in social bonding, reproduction and childbirth. This hormone may also affect our memory – though in [...]

Food for Life
Your gut microbiome may be linked to dementia, Parkinson’s disease and MS

"Our stomach and brain are connected through the 'gut-brain axis' . . . It might be time to look outside the skull to understand the cause of some brain conditions."   Date of publication: November 10, 2020 Authors: Lynne A Barker, PhD, Sheffield Hallam University and Caroline Jordan, PhD, Sheffield [...]

A Sense of Place
Air pollution may contribute to Alzheimer’s and dementia risk – here’s what we’re learning from brain scans 

"Because the silent phase of dementia is thought to start decades before the manifestation of symptoms, findings from our recent studies raise concerns that air pollution exposures during mid to early life may be equally or even more important than late-life exposure."   Author: Jiu-Chiuan Chen, MD, University of Southern [...]

Creating Community
Dementia deaths rise during the summer of COVID leading to concern

On the best of days, caregiving for a family member with dementia is difficult. Watching the decline of a loved one is hard. Having to help them with things that are basic and personal makes it even harder. The commitment - 24 hours a day - offers little time for [...]

Creating Community
Could Different Cultures Teach Us Something About Dementia?

Picture two different families, each dealing with a diagnosis of dementia in one of its members. In one case, the patient is a retired executive, whose family tries as long as possible to keep the diagnosis secret, relying primarily on professional caregivers and eventually a nursing home. In another case, [...]

2020-06-26T16:25:36-05:00June 26th, 2020|Categories: Creating Community|Tags: , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Creating Community
Could Different Cultures Teach Us Something About Dementia?
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