3 Caregivers Rob Woman with Alzheimer's and Now She Might Lose Her Home

Three people are accused of trying to exploit an 81-year-old woman with Alzheimer's.

Her husband passed away in 2012, and authorities say they took over as her caregiver.

The police report shows the three used:

• her bank and credit card accounts to pay their own bills
• and stopping the payments on her mortgage.

The woman's home is now foreclosed.

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The Connection Between UTI and Dementia

Study results show that people who got an infection had twice the rate of memory loss as people without infections.

Infections in dementia patients, including UTIs, can lead to hallucinations, agitation, aggression, and memory loss.

Worse yet, urinary tract infections are common in dementia patients, frequently go undetecting, and often lead to visits to the emergency room.

What comes first dementia or alzheimer

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“Dementia” is a term that has replaced a more out-of-date word, “senility,” to refer to cognitive changes with advanced age.

Dementia includes a group of symptoms, the most prominent of which is memory difficulty with additional problems in at least one other area of cognitive functioning, including language, attention, problem solving, spatial skills, judgment, planning, or organization.

How to talk to an alzheimer's patient

Turn negatives into positives. For example say “Let’s go here” instead of “Don’t go there”. Be inclusive and don’t talking down to them as if they were a child.

Respect the fact that they are an adult, and treat them as such.

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Dementia and False Accusations

It is not unusual for Alzheimer's and dementia patients to make false accusations.

The natural tendency for most Alzheimer's caregivers is to try and explain, and sometimes in a heated fashion, that we did not do what we are being accused of by a dementia patient.

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Dementia, Accusations, and Fractured Fairy Tales

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Al didn’t know what was happening. He was having a hard time remembering things. He wasn’t eating or sleeping well and didn’t want to see friends. He was confused and irritable. 

His wife was worried. She took him to the doctor. It turned out that Al was having a bad reaction to one of his medicines. Once his doctor changed the medicine, Al felt more like himself. 

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Is falling and forgetting how to do simple things a sign of dementia?

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A Consensus on the Brain Training Industry from the Scientific Community

As the baby boomers enter their golden years with mounting concerns about the potential loss of cognitive abilities, markets are responding with products promising to allay anxieties about potential decline. Computer-based cognitive-training software –popularly known as brain games– claim a growing share of the marketplace. The promotion of these products reassures and entices a worried public.

Consumers are told that playing brain games will make them smarter, more alert, and able to learn faster and better. In other words, the promise is that if you adhere to a prescribed regimen of cognitive exercise, you will reduce cognitive slowing and forgetfulness, and will fundamentally improve your mind and brain.

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Alzheimer's Misdiagnosis

Patients with Alzheimer's and related dementia are frequently misdiagnosed.

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Sing Along - The Dementia Friends Song

We're all beginning to talk about dementia, however, society is not yet fully supportive of people with dementia, either in the workplace or in everyday life. I'd love to see everyone become Dementia Friends, and make life that little bit easier for people with dementia."

~ Jeremy Hughes, Alzheimer's Society.

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Respite Care for Dementia Patients Lacking in Ireland

There is only one respite bed per 450 people with dementia in Ireland. Only 52 nursing homes nationally have specialised care units for people with the disease.

Some 30,000 people have dementia nationally and there are 66 respite beds available across 54 specialist care units in nursing homes.

SCUs are facilities catering exclusively for the needs of people with dementia.
The survey was carried out by Trinity College Dublin and included 602 nursing homes. It also found that an average of 19 people live in each privately-run SCU - far in excess of best practice recommendations.

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Is short-term memory a sign of dementia?

Increasing forgetfulness or mild confusion may be the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and memory loss.

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What is Momentia?

What is Momentia?

Momentia is a joyful proclamation. Momentia declares the new dementia story, a story not of fear, isolation, despair, futility and loss, but a story of hope, connection, growth, purpose and courage.

Momentia affirms a story told by the lips and lives of people living with dementia, a story of living fully and boldly in the moment.

Difference Found in Brain Area Linked to Memory Among College Football Players

Preliminary research finds that within a group of collegiate football players, those who experienced a concussion or had been playing for more years had smaller hippocampal volume (an area of the brain important for memory) than those with fewer years of football experience.

This according to a study in the May 14 issue of JAMA.

In addition, more years of playing football was correlated with slower reaction time.