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Diet and Alzheimer’s Disease
Can we choose foods to prevent or correct Alzheimer’s Disease? Do supplements like fish oil and vitamins help? Maybe. Read on for recent discoveries. The Secret Is In Combining The Right Foods Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center studied the dietary patterns 2,148 older adults and assessed them for the development of Alzheimer’s. One pattern stood…
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Is High Cholesterol Linked to Alzheimer’s?
Bruce Reed is a professor and Associate Director of the University of California Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Dr. Reed says, “One of the important themes emerging from dementia research over the past 15 years is that there are intriguing connections between vascular disease and Alzheimer’s disease.” Researching This Problem For Many Years Dr. Reed…
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What Is It Like To Have Alzheimer’s
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. (Ecclesiastes 1:15) My best friend has Alzheimer’s Disease and this is what he told me, word for word: “I admit, at first I thought it was a mistake. I was often annoyed with the darling person who shares my…
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What Is Available Now To Treat Alzheimer’s?
Different Treatments for Body and for Mind Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease are broken into two categories described as cognitive and behavioral. Cognitive symptoms involve memory, language, paying attention, and judgment. Behavioral symptoms include emotional expressions like temper outbursts, suspiciousness, or withdrawal. Diazoxide A drug called “Diazoside” was developed decades ago to treat high blood pressure…
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10 Signs of Alzheimer’s
We all forget things, our grocery list, people’s names at the moment of introduction, or why we walked into a room. Of course we remember later and slap our heads. This type of forgetting is probably due to just plain having too many other things to think about. This is normal forgetting. It’s not Alzheimer’s.…
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Senior Pet Owners Live Better and Longer
Thirty years ago, researchers discovered that pets are good for older people (and sick people too.) Today, we can find beloved kitties and pups in just about every assisted living or nursing care facility. Volunteers take pets for hospital visits, and doctors even prescribe pets for recovering patients. Here’s What The Researchers Found Those early…
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Loneliness and Memory Loss
Everyone knows how it feels to be lonely, but ongoing loneliness heralds a deep despair and memories are lost in the darkness. Researchers have been studying the effects of loneliness and, somehow, the results are not surprising. There is a loss of connection and belonging. Older people find loneliness because they lose their closest persons.…
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Dementia From Heart Disease
Sometimes we think about Dementia as “acting crazy” but that’s not what the term really means. Dementia is the loss of important mental abilites including reasoning, memory, and solving the problems of everyday life. There can be other symptoms too, such as a change in personality and mood. When these symptoms are strong enough to…
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Depression Can Cause Memory Loss
Memory loss can be caused by depression. It is as though a cloud of sadness filters out the will to remember even the smallest things. The US National Institutes of Mental Health estimates that one in ten adults suffer from major depression for at least one period of their lives. As we grow older, there…
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