Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease can be devastating, since the disease causes individuals to forget names, places and faces. As difficult as providing Alzheimer’s care can be at times, there are characteristics of this disease that caregivers can actually use to decrease their own stress, according to The Huffington Post. Firstly, seniors with Alzheimer’s disease [...]
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HDE Home Care – Oregon In Home Care Services
April 15th, 2012
admin HDE Home Care – In Home Care Services HDE Home Care is a family-owned in home care agency, licensed in the state of Oregon. We improve the quality of life for seniors and people with disabilities by providing caregivers for one-on-one assistance with activities of daily living. We serve most of NW Oregon including the [...]
Stratford at Maple Leaf – Washington Senior Assisted Living Community
April 15th, 2012
admin Stratford at Maple Leaf – Senior Assisted Living Community The Stratford at Maple Leaf offers assisted living apartments for seniors with Alzheimer’s and memory care needs. We offer continuum of care, so as your needs change, you can remain in one place. In addition to great care staff, the Memory Care program is designed to [...]
Dementia Must Be a Global Health Priority
April 11th, 2012
admin Landmark data released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) in their first-ever report on the global impact of dementia: Dementia: A Public Health Priority show that around the world a new case of dementia occurs every four seconds. That is the equivalent of 7.7 million new cases each year. [...]
Long-Term Memory May Be Improved By Blocking ‘Oh-Glick-Nack’
April 8th, 2012
admin Just as the familiar sugar in food can be bad for the teeth and waistline, another sugar has been implicated as a health menace and blocking its action may have benefits that include improving long-term memory in older people and treating cancer. Progress toward finding such a blocker for the sugar – with the appropriately [...]
Symptoms Of Dementia Warded Off By The Bilingual Brain
April 5th, 2012
admin New research explains how speaking more than one language may translate to better mental health. A paper published by Cell Press in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences examines how being bilingual can offer protection from the symptoms of dementia, and also suggests that the increasing diversity in our world populations may have an unexpected [...]
Alzheimer’s Prevention Requires Healthy Lifestyle
April 3rd, 2012
admin Strong evidence suggests that a combination of healthy changes to lifestyle can have a huge impact on reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The conference titled “Lifestyle Approaches for the Prevention of Alzheimer’s disease” organised by the McCusker Alzheimer’s Foundation gathered international Alzheimer’s disease (AD) experts who one way or another all reached [...]
Some Memory Changes in Aging Brain are Normal
March 4th, 2012
admin Dementia and its evil twin, Alzheimer’s, may have moved ahead of cancer on the list of most feared diseases, especially among baby boomers, who have begun to believe it is their inescapable fate if they have the bad luck to live too long. So we grasp at any news about aging, hoping that medical science [...]
Sagewood – Life Care Services Community – Progressive Senior Living in Northeast Phoenix
November 17th, 2011
admin Imagine all the best qualities for senior living coming together in an environment focused on your satisfaction and well-being. At Sagewood, the lifestyle conforms to fit you, rather than the other way around. Your preferences. Your schedule. Your tastes. It’s a progressive new approach to senior living … giving you unmatched flexibility in all aspects [...]
Acacia Health Center at Sagewood – Life Care Services Community – Assisted Living, Alzheimer’s and Nursing Care
November 17th, 2011
admin Acacia Health Center is a wonderful extension of the Sagewood Lifestyle. Acacia was designed to function like your own home. Groups of suites nestled together in neighborhoods share a cozy living room and kitchen area. And just as Sagewood offers a progressive flexible approach to active senior living, Acacia extends the concept of choice and [...]





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