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activities for dementia patients,
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More than half of Alzheimer's and dementia patients had inadequate meaningful daily activities at a senior center or at home.
Activities for Dementia Patients
More than half of Alzheimer's and dementia patients had inadequate meaningful daily activities at a senior center or at home.
Socialization and Alzheimers Disease
The following keyword search on Google
lead the reader to this article.
socialization and alzheimers disease
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Google Search - Short Term Memory Problems
One of the first signs of dementia is short term memory loss. Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia; and, a cause of short term memory problems.
Frigid weather can pose special risks to older adults
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has some advice for helping older people avoid hypothermia—when the body gets too cold—during cold weather.
Older adults are especially vulnerable to hypothermia because their bodies’ response to cold can be diminished by underlying medical conditions such as diabetes and by use of some medicines, including over-the-counter cold remedies.
Hypothermia can develop in older adults after relatively short exposure to cold weather or even a small drop in temperature.
Leaving Alzheimer's Alone at Home
It took me a while to understand how my mother might be feeling when I went out and left her alone at home.
Persons living with Alzheimer's or a related dementia often become mean or agitated when left alone even for a very small amount of time.
A reader searched Google using these keywords
leaving altzhmers alone at home
Can you leave a person living with Alzheimer's alone?
Dementia Patient Won't Go to Social Daycare
How do you get a person living with Dementia to go to adult day care?
One of our readers wrote:
Oh how I wish she would go! She calls it "Granny Day Care" and refuses to go.
I wanted her to go over a year ago. I told her recently that she would have made some new friends by now but she wants no part of it. I think they could accommodate the visual impairment there as well as the cognitive impairment.
She doesn't see herself as an older person, but she's 87!
Shaking my head....
Agitation in Elderly Dementia Patients
Research provides the best evidence to date that the late-day anxiety and agitation sometimes seen in older institutionalized adults, especially those with dementia, has a biological basis in the brain.
Tips to Avoid the The Flu - Flu is Spreading Across the United States
Most of the country is now experiencing high levels of influenza like illness (Flu) according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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| Courtesy of the CDC http://www.cdc.gov |
Mayo Clinic specialists are offering advice and dispelling some misconceptions about the influenza to help people stay healthy.
In Home Test, SAGE, Can Detect Early Signs of Dementia
Ohio State researchers have developed a new memory test called SAGE.
This new memory test which can be taken at home with a pen and paper is called the Self-Administered Gerocognitive Examination (SAGE).
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