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Food for Life
10 best and worst foods for your brain

Here's a useful tool that lists the 10 best (and 10 worst!) foods for your brain's health. Renowned neurologists Ayesha and Dean Sherzai, both MD's, [...]

Susan Troyer2020-10-19T14:19:52-05:00October 19th, 2020|Categories: Food For Life|Tags: Alzheimers caregivers, Ayesha and Dean Sherzai - both MDs, Brain Breakthroughs Masterclass, Dementia, Dementia caregivers, Dementia community, Food Revolution Network, Ocean Robbins|0 Comments

Music as Medicine
What do an opera company and a hospital have in common?

"As part of her role as Artistic Advisor at Large to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Renée Fleming has spearheaded a [...]

Susan Troyer2020-08-27T10:58:06-05:00August 25th, 2020|Categories: Music as Medicine|Tags: "And the people stayed home", "Music - health - neuroscience", Center for life and learning at Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, Dementia caregivers, John Corigliano, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kitty O'Meara, Music for health and wellbeing during COVID-19, Renee Fleming|Comments Off

Mindful Presence
A personal invitation: “Alzheimer’s – The Science of Prevention”

Currently, about 5.8 million people have Alzheimer's disease in the U.S., and two-thirds of these are women. Though these numbers are staggering and continue to [...]

Susan Troyer2020-08-27T14:57:48-05:00August 24th, 2020|Categories: Mindful Presence|Tags: Alzheimers - The Science of Prevention, Alzheimers caregivers, Brain health, Dementia caregivers, Dr. David Perlmutter, Improve brain function at any age, Protect your brain, Register here, September 9-20|Comments Off

Creating Community
Random Testing in Indiana Shows COVID-19 Is 6 Times Deadlier Than Flu

Home of my alma mater, many weekend reunions, and - at a later point in my life - my workplace: Northwest Indiana - just around [...]

Susan Troyer2020-07-26T14:28:05-05:00July 23rd, 2020|Categories: Creating Community|Tags: Antibody testing, Coronavirus, COVID-19 death rate, Dementia caregivers, Epidemiology, Health, Indiana, Inequality, Pandemic, Public health, Random sampling, RT-PCR, SARS-COV-2, Statistics, Testing|Comments Off

Mindful Presence
The Self in Dementia is Not Lost

I was offered a “pass.” It was a routine appointment approximately one year following Mother’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s in late 1997. The physician quietly handed [...]

Susan Troyer2020-07-27T00:44:05-05:00July 12th, 2020|Categories: Mindful Presence|Tags: Alzheimer's, Author Muireann Irish, Dementia, Dementia and agitation, Dementia caregivers, dementia-care, dementia-care setting, Demise of personhood, diagnosis of dementia, Loss of self, memory loss, neurodegenerative diseases, Thought Leaders and Influencers|Comments Off

Mindful Presence
Compassion Sets Humans Apart

“Like food sharing, health care was part of life for our ancestors—a major aspect of how they worked together to survive hard times. Humans have [...]

Susan Troyer2020-07-05T15:33:34-05:00July 5th, 2020|Categories: Mindful Presence|Tags: Caregiver support, comfort those who are in pain, Dementia caregivers, evolutionary advantage, health care, human care, instinctive reaction, interpersonal care, severe pathology|Comments Off

Creating Community
How Being Friends With Someone Who Has Dementia Can Be Good for You Both

This article was written three years ago - July 2017. In the current context of the COVID-19 global pandemic, physical presence has been curtailed to [...]

Susan Troyer2020-06-29T14:57:05-05:00June 29th, 2020|Categories: Creating Community|Tags: caregiver roles, cognitive abilities, Dementia caregivers, dementia in a friend, diagnosis of dementia, friendships matter to older adults, interacting well with people who have dementia, prevalence of dementia, social interaction is beneficial for the person with dementia., Talking about dementia, unpaid caregivers|Comments Off

Music as Medicine
Alzheimer’s and Soul Care

In the mid-80’s, I served as an Adjunct Faculty Member at National Louis University in the Chicago area. It was here that I became acquainted [...]

Susan Troyer2020-06-28T00:15:30-05:00June 27th, 2020|Categories: Music as Medicine|Tags: Alzheimers caregivers, constantly learning new and challenging material, Dementia caregivers, dimension of “soul care”, Dr. Daniel Amen, Dr. Eben Alexander, Dr. James Ellor, Dr. John Geyman, Gerontological expert, National Institute on Aging, What Alzheimer’s disease teaches us about the soul|Comments Off

Mindful Presence
Getting the Temperature Just Right Helps People With Dementia Stay Cool

"Sometimes people with dementia can become agitated or distressed, which can be disturbing for other people around them. This often happens for no clear reason [...]

Susan Troyer2020-06-27T12:31:49-05:00June 27th, 2020|Categories: Mindful Presence|Tags: aged care facilities, Caregiver support, Dementia and agitation, Dementia caregivers, indoor temperatures, living with dementia, new regulations, psychological symptoms, thermal design|Comments Off

Mindful Presence
Want to sleep like a baby during the coronavirus crisis? Here are 10 ways to do it

"In my research in sleep medicine and social epidemiology, I analyze sleep disorders in atypical cases, such as people with Parkinson’s disease, call centre and [...]

Susan Troyer2020-06-20T01:23:14-05:00June 19th, 2020|Categories: Mindful Presence|Tags: Anxiety, Avoid backlit devices before bedtime, avoid sleeping during the day, COVID-19 pandemic, Dementia caregivers, get a deeper sleep, good sleep is essential to health, healthy lifestyle, insomnia, Lack of sleep, Parkinson's disease, poor sleep, promote sleep, quality of sleep, Regular bedtime, regulating your body clock, Sleep, Sleep hygiene, Sleep of good quality, sleep pressure, Sleeping well, Sleeping well is essential, stress levels|Comments Off