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July 2008 - Posts
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So, often, I get emails asking about how to handle sibling issues. They end with something like, "It must be nice to be an only child. I do the work alone, but I have to fight to make decisions. Only children don't have that problem."
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I've been alerted to the fack that some can't download the PDF that I posted from the Michigan Dementia Coalition titled, "Knowledge and Skills Needed for Dementia Care" - (thanks Michelle, for letting me know).
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The Glass Seed: The Fragile Beauty of Heart, Mind & Memory, by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, is a personal account of one woman's journey as she learns to cope with, and understand, her life within the context of history, family and her mother's dementia.
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MedHelp provides its users with access to advice from experts at the top medical institutions such as the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine, National Jewish, Partners Health, and Mount Sinai.
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Often the adult children need to travel south to handle emergencies. This causes problems with jobs and young kids at home. So they beg their parents to come back home. The parents balk. This is my home, now. I don’t want to leave my friends. I don’t want to leave my church. I don’t want to live in the cold and risk a fall on the ice.
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explains a nearly magical response by a person with Alzheimer's disease, to an injection of Enbrel, a TNF (tumor necrosis factor) drug used for rheumatoid arthritis. The man with Alzheimer's hadn't recognized his wife in months. Minutes after doctors injected the drug into the spine of the man with Alzheimer's, he recognized his wife.
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I've signed up for a two evening video course to better use video on my blogs and for other Internet projects. I've got the basics down
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I've signed up for a two evening video course to better use video on my blogs and for other Internet projects. I've got the basics down, but there's much left to learn.
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My sister was told that her colleague's mother, who was viewing the program, had said to the adult child, "Lawrence Welk looks wonderful. He just doesn't age!" To her, Lawrence Welk is alive and well and not aging, since she's seeing him on television.
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Even if we're not running marathons, local metro gyms are flooded with boomers working out and striving to stay healthy enough to stay employed (through need or choice). We are learning new technology.
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Farther down in the release, there are statements questioning the reason for the characteristic plaques and implying that the plaques may actually begin as the body’s attempt to correct the oxidation that is causing the disease. Will this be the direction of future research?
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Some people do very well on drug therapy, and it's not likely their doctors will want to take them off in order to experiment, especially since it has been shown that going off the medications, and then returning to them, can sometimes lose ground for the patient.
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For some diseases, such as breast cancer, there are active steps you can take to lower your risk. For diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, other than healthy living and a great diet with lots of antioxidants and good exercise, there isn't a lot you can do, that we know at this time, to prevent the disease.
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They also found that those mice that were already impaired actually improved when given the caffeine - their memory was restored back to that of normal mice.
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