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Posts Tagged with "cognitive impairment"

  • Featured, Quality of Life

    Posted on May 25th, 2012

    Written by Katherine Askew

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    Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's disease, choosing a nursing home, Cognition, cognitive abilities, cognitive impairment, contented dementia, Dementia, habits of a lifetime, Jolene Brackey, lifetime habits, memory box, memory loss

    Ideas for Contented Dementia

    DON’T LEAVE DECISIONS TO OTHERS
    Several weeks ago I attended The Silver Tsunami conference here in Dallas.  The keynote speaker was Jolene Brackey.  She is the founder of Enhanced Moments, a business that helps families through Alzheimer’s.   She had several suggestions that are simple, practical, and new for me.  
    Ms. Brackey urges us to give adult children and friends permission to NOT take care of us.  If you leave it up to the children to make decisions,… More

  • Health & Disability

    Posted on July 29th, 2011

    Written by David Downey

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    aging, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's disease, Cognition, cognitive abilities, Cognitive dysfunction, cognitive impairment, Dementia, dementias

    COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT: ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

    IT SNEAKS UP ON YOU
    Pat was a model employee. Her steady performance over many years earned her several promotions. But managers above and around her began to notice she was slipping. Things weren’t getting done. Assignments were missed. Her career began to move backwards as she was repeatedly reassigned to lower positions with reduced responsibilities. Then one day while helping answer office phone lines, Pat realized that she could no longer remember who the callers were… More

  • Health & Disability

    Posted on July 29th, 2011

    Written by David Downey

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    Alzheimer's disease, Cognitive dysfunction, cognitive impairment, Dementia, Lewy body, mixed dementia, Multi-infarct dementia, Parkinson's disease, prevention of brain disease, Risk factor, vascular dementia

    BRAIN DISEASES IN OLDER PEOPLE

    Developing brain disease is a great fear for those who are moving into their later decades.  While there is no known cure for or prevention of Alzheimer’s disease most other brain diseases have a much better prognosis.
    ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
    It is estimated that 5.3 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease.  That includes 5.1 million individuals aged 65 or older and an estimated 200,000 individuals suffering from early onsetAlzheimer’s below the age… More

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