WZZM | Understanding more about dementia WZZM Mike Faber of the Older Learner Center at Grand Rapids Community College visited WZZM 13 News at Noon to dispel some of the misconceptions surrounding dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, affecting ... |
Month: August 2014
Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease – HCPLive
Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease HCPLive During follow-up, the researchers discovered 171 and 102 participants had developed dementia and Alzheimer's disease, respectively. Persons with low concentrations of vitamin D were 53% more likely to develop any kind dementia. For individuals with a ... |
Memory care centers: Meeting Alzheimer’s and dementia patients where they are – Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star | Memory care centers: Meeting Alzheimer's and dementia patients where they are Kansas City Star The Wexford Place Memory Support facility for people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease has opened at 6460 N. Cosby Avenue in Kansas City, North. Throughout the center there are "destination stations" designed to stimulate residents' memories. |
Health Column: Treating Alzheimer’s dementia with medications – Glenwood Springs Post Independent
Health Column: Treating Alzheimer's dementia with medications Glenwood Springs Post Independent A radiant, smiling grandpa is frolicking with his grandchildren on a sunny, wildflower-covered hillside. In the television version, serene violin music wafts in the background. This is the unrealistic gist of the ads for the two most commonly ... |
Music & Memory program brightens lives of Alzheimer’s, dementia patients – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Music & Memory program brightens lives of Alzheimer's, dementia patients Milwaukee Journal Sentinel As if the gray-haired, bespectacled Alzheimer's patients sitting in wheelchairs around her were audience members at Carnegie Hall. The impromptu performance kicked off during breakfast at Lasata Care Center. Irene had been listening to Sinatra on an ... |
The One Exercise to Avoid
It’s true that exercise will always lower the risk of dementia. But for one type of person, a particular kind of exercise may actually increase the risk of dementia. Anyone suffering from hypertension must avoid high-impact sports, largely because the intense physical activity will put more strain on the blood vessels. The issue with high blood pressure isn’t just that the number are too high, it’s what the numbers indicate – and they indicate the blood vein walls take a pounding each time the heart pumps blood throughout the body, especially the brain.
The blood veins in the brain are so delicate that even without hypertension, people take care not to endure physical trauma to their heads. With hypertension, that physical trauma is silently taking place inside the head.
The obvious types of high-impact sports include intense cardiovascular workouts, but one that escapes people’s attentions is isometrics. Isometrics are any activity that require muscles to be “strained”, acting against other muscles or a fixed object. In other words, weightlifting is a form of isometrics. So are non-weightlifting forms such as flexing muscles. This may be disappointing news for people who want to form contoured muscles, but if they have high blood pressure and are continuing to do isometrics – all that work may actually be shortening their quality of life. After all, it’s a shame to achieve something if one can’t remember it.
Take care of the hypertension first with diet and gentler forms of exercise. Then move on to isometrics.
A safe place to remember: Alzheimer’s activity group to begin in Destin – Destin Log
Destin Log | A safe place to remember: Alzheimer's activity group to begin in Destin Destin Log The group, dubbed the “Neighborhood Memory Café,” is comprised of caregivers and their loved ones who suffer from dementia or Alzheimer's disease, and is now expanding to add a Destin location. “It's a way to bring the caregiver together with those who ... |
Vitamin D Appears Neuroprotective Against Alzheimer’s, Dementia – Mad In America
Mad In America | Vitamin D Appears Neuroprotective Against Alzheimer's, Dementia Mad In America “Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a substantially increased risk of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease,” concluded a team of mainly US researchers in a study published in Neurology. The researchers examined vitamin D levels in 1,658 ... |
Association between vitamin D and dementia risk has been confirmed – eMaxHealth
eMaxHealth | Association between vitamin D and dementia risk has been confirmed eMaxHealth Researchers have investigated whether low concentrations of Vitamin D are associated with an increased risk of incident all-cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease reported the journal Neurology. The researchers studied one thousand six hundred ... |
How to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease – Deseret News
Medical Xpress | How to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease Deseret News Increasing one's vitamin D levels may reduce the risk of illnesses that cause dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, according to international research led by the University of Exeter. "Senile dementia and Alzheimer's disease were both significantly ... Study links vitamin D deficiency to increased risk for Alzheimer's, dementia Vitamin D deficiency linked to increased risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease Study confirms link between dementia and vitamin D |