As our society ages, more and more families are struggling to live with a family member who is suffering from Dementia or Alzheimer disease. While memory loss can be a frightening experience for our aging parents or grandparents, its impact on the family can be equally frightening, particularly when there are young children in the home.
Being a Primary Carer for a relative with Alzheimers disease The Long Goodbye
“It is a bittersweet irony that those who care for the sufferers in reality suffer more than the sufferers do themselves.” Stephen Morgan describes, in the first part of a series, how life can indeed be “up and down” being a Primary Carer for a relative suffering with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Use Iron and B Vitamins To Improve Your Brain Activity
Learn why iron and B vitamins deficiency reduce brain function and what you need to know to counteract these deficiencies. Learn which foods give you iron and B vitamins.
Without Zinc You Are Headed Towards Dementia or Alzheimer’s
Most Americans are deficient in zinc. Zinc is used in numerous chemical activities in the body. If you are deficient in zinc, your will have a lot of physical problems. Learn how and why to get more zinc into your body.
Seven Sloppy Uses of Medical Tests
Medical tests are valuable in diagnosing illnesses and monitoring treatments. However, used unwisely, they can cause more harm than good.
Hydrocephalus: Too Much Water on the Brain
Hydrocephalus is a treatable cause of chronic confusion in older adults. However, the treatment itself carries risk, and deciding which cases to treat remains difficult.
5 Steps To Staying Mentally Sharp And Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease
If you want to stay sharp and in control of your life well into your golden years, there are proactive methods to achieving the mental alertness you need. More and more research is pointing to the fact that physical activity and lifestyle choices have more to do with preventing Alzheimer s disease (AD) and other forms of dementia – once thought to be a normal part of aging – than pure genetics. So if you had a parent, grandparent or sibling with AD it doesn’t mean you have to…
The Coming Alzheimer’s Epidemic
As the population ages, we are on the verge of an epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease, a brain disease that destroys memory and personality, and eventually leads to death. At present there is no cure, but all over the world, millions of people are at risk.
The Symptoms of Dementia
Dementia is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Particularly affected areas may be memory, attention, language and problem solving, although particularly in the later stages of the condition, affected persons may be disoriented in time, not knowing what day, week, month or year it is, not knowing where they are not knowing who they are.
Use Ginkgo Biloba to Starve Off Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Using special nutrients and a good diet is the best way to deal with signs of dementia. Ginkgo Biloba has been used for centuries and it still has proven to be one of the best nutrients to improve brain function. Find out why.