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How Everyday Objects Can Improve Quality of Life for People with Dementia

By Juliet Rix — 2021

A new training programme in care homes shows how mundane tasks like making a drink or polishing is good for residents’ wellbeing.

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Illness and the Search for Meaning

In this interview, we discuss the essence of Jean Shinoda Bolen's new book, Close to the Bone. Her compassionate work guides individuals and their loved ones through the realm of life-threatening illness.

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Why Marriage Is Linked to a Lower Risk of Dementia

People who have never married or whose spouse has died are at increased risk of developing dementia compared to married people, according to a new review in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. But being single may not be as big a health hazard as it once was, the analysis finds.

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Amanda Macmillan
2017
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Ayahuasca Tea Could Be a Breakthrough Treatment for Alzheimer’s

Its potential for treating dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases is just one category of many illnesses doctors hope could be helped with the ancient medicine, prescribed by shamans for millennia.

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Hannah Sparks
2020
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Caregivers: Living with Guilt

How to keep it in check by tolerating ambivalence, maintaining balance and staying realistic.

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Barry J. Jacobs
2016
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Why We Can and Must Focus on Preventing Alzheimer’s

A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed how levels of blood sugar directly relate to risk for dementia.

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David Perlmutter
2017
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FMLA and Caring for Elderly Parent with Dementia

An employee who is eligible for Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave has asked to use it to spend time with her father, who is in a nursing home but having difficulty settling in. He has dementia and will listen only to family members. Is this a qualifying event?

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Reggie Gay
2019
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Alzheimer’s in the Family

Dementia affects the person diagnosed but also raises fears for siblings and children. Here are the facts.

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Harvard Health Publishing
2019
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Caught Between Young Kids and a Parent with Alzheimer’s, I Found a Lifeline on the Playground

My mom’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and decline were a painful and lonely journey, one that coincided with an otherwise unbearably hectic time. My two children were still in diapers.

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Meg Ounsworth Steere
2019
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Responding When Someone with Dementia Wants Her Mom or Dad

It can be helpful to arm yourself with understanding about why this happens and have a couple of responses prepared to try to help your loved one.

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Esther Heerema
2019
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How to Know If Your Parent Has Dementia

A little forgetfulness can be brushed off as aging, but a repetitive pattern of memory loss or recurring signs of behavior change may lead to larger concerns about an elderly parent.

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Marlo Sollitto
2020
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