Top 10 Superfoods for Your Brain
Top 10 Superfoods for Your Brain We all know that eating a healthy diet is essential for our physical health. It’s equally important for our brain’s health. The brain is a complex and powerful organic machine that requires nutrients to function properly, just like your heart, lungs, eyes or muscles. The brain controls […]
The First Drug Breakthrough in the Race to Cure Alzheimer’s By 2025
Amyloid beta plaques are gooey globs that clump together, stick to neurons inside the brain and kill them off, outright. The slow but steady accumulation of these plaques leads to Alzheimer’s disease. Tau protein tangles aid them by cutting off the brain’s supply lines, as the plaques march across white and gray matter, taking out […]
Boston researchers suggest your sense of smell could be used to predict your risk of Alzheimer’s
(WXYZ) – One hundred eighty three older adults were recruited for this study at the Massachusetts General Hospital. They were first given medical assessments and brain imagining to evaluate their cognitive functioning.Participants then took part in a four-point test that included smelling 10 different common odors like lemon, mint and strawberry. Those who […]
Loneliness Can Be Deadly for Elders; Friends Are the Antidote
Paula Span – New York Times THE NEW OLD AGE DEC. 30, 2016 The circle shrinks. As the years pass, older people attend too many funerals. Friendships that sustained them for decades lapse when companions and confidants retire or move away or grow ill. These days Sylvia Frank, who moved into an […]
Brain food: What to eat – at any age – to fend off Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
BY CLAUDIA BUCKcbuck@sacbee.com Put down the fork. Step away from the buffet table. UC Davis nutrition expert Liz Applegate wants us to think about exactly what we’re shoveling down our throats. Not just to lose weight but to protect our brains. “Brain food is real and it really does matter,” said Applegate, an […]
Brain food: What to eat – at any age – to fend off Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
BY CLAUDIA BUCKcbuck@sacbee.com Put down the fork. Step away from the buffet table. UC Davis nutrition expert Liz Applegate wants us to think about exactly what we’re shoveling down our throats. Not just to lose weight but to protect our brains. “Brain food is real and it really does matter,” said Applegate, […]
Wearables for elder care
Rahmat Shoureshi – Crunch Network Contributor Today’s 20-something tech wizards might not worry about the challenges of old age — but they should. Seniors represent a huge untapped market for tech companies. While just 13 percent of America’s population is 65 or older today, that slice will jump to 19 percent by 2030. […]
Should you place your elderly parent in a senior home or assisted living?
If you can’t care for your parents in your own home, you are not a bad son or daughter. Our parents get older and some of them — in fact, a majority of them — need help. Most elderly people eventually become dependent on others. This means they will require someone to be increasingly attentive to their […]
The Remarkable Effects of Yoga in Restoring Healthy Sleep and Better Quality of Life
The extreme efficacy of Yoga in leading a healthy and happy life is not hidden from people today. In fact, it is being practiced and pursued in an unprecedented manner as people have embraced it wholeheartedly. The recognition of 21st June as the ‘International Yoga Day’ bears testimony to this fact. What makes yoga […]
Improving Dementia Care Requires a Change in Mindset
Written by Kerry Mills Dementia is a symptom or set of symptoms. It is not an actual disease, but a term used to describe a group of brain disorders that causes a loss in cognitive abilities such as memory, language, abstract reasoning, and judgment, to name a few. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause […]