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Mood Music: Lifting Spirits of Dementia Patients

By Treva Lind — 2018

While music is known for lifting moods, rising evidence shows profound responses when favorite tunes are played for dementia patients.

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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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9 Lifestyle Changes that Happen After You Start Meditating

Once you begin meditating daily, life as you knew it will begin to take on some interesting twists and turns.

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Light Watkins
2020
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Financial Problems May Start Earlier in Dementia Than Many Think, Duke Study Finds

The study also found that financial problems were correlated with changes in the brain that are a sign of Alzheimer's disease.

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Stacey Burlilng
2019
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New Therapies Help Patients with Dementia Cope with Depression

Many patients with cognitive impairment have anxiety or depression, but standard treatments are difficult for people with memory issues.

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Andrea Petersen
2019
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How Everyday Objects Can Improve Quality of Life for People with Dementia

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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Juliet Rix
2021
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What Science Tells Us About Preventing Dementia

There are no instant, miracle cures. But recent studies suggest we have more control over our cognitive health than we might think. It just takes some effort.

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Anne Tergesen
2019
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The Polluted Brain

Some of the health risks of inhaling fine and ultrafine particles are well-established, such as asthma, lung cancer, and, most recently, heart disease.

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Emily Underwood
2017
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Dementia

Dementia is a progressive loss of cognitive function, marked by memory problems, trouble communicating, impaired judgment, and confused thinking.

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Psychology Today
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