Homewatch CareGivers Northshore has 101 things to do with a senior dealing with the Alzheimer’s and Dementia disease. We strive to promote the in-home care experience by keeping our clients active, while maintaining and ensuring their safety. Seniors with Alzheimer’s or Dementia need activities where they are successful. That’s why “failure free” activities are so…
DetailsDo you think you are smarter than the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners? Alzheimer’s disease affects men and women? True or False Dementia in itself is not a disease and covers a broad range of symptoms? True or False Currently, there is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease? True or False When communicating with someone…
DetailsAn organization that provides in-home senior care, like Homewatch CareGivers Northshore must understand and recognize the importance of taking care of ones’ mind and body, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Exercises that engage the mind and body improve memory and other measures of cognitive functions. Tai Chi beats stretching and conventional exercise and can also help reduce…
DetailsHomewatch CareGivers In-Home Care and Senior Support recognizes the importance in looking for early signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s/dementia. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a potential precursor to Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Changes that are mild, but noticeable to the thought process to the affected person, family members, and friends is a mild cognitive impairment.…
DetailsImagine going on a long journey by train. As you leave, the landscape looks familiar and you sit back to relax. For a while you read, then you doze off. When you wake from your nap, you notice something odd—when you look out the window, things look different. The buildings have strange shapes and colors…
DetailsThe new global study involves 1,500 participants across nine countries currently living with dementia. Picture: University of Melbourne A new global study, led by the University of Melbourne, is bringing music in as medicine to treat people with dementia and depression By Ruby Gill and Imogen Crump, University of Melbourne Music is the medicine of…
DetailsThe UB-led study found that most participants got less than six hours of sleep each night, accompanied by frequent awakenings — as often as four times per hour. By MARCENE ROBINSON Published August 3, 2018 More than 90 percent of people caring for a family member with dementia experience poor sleep, according to new research by…
DetailsMedioimages/Photodisc/Getty Images By ALICE PARK July 25, 2018 Most people are familiar with the steps they can take to lower their risk of heart disease and cancer. Choosing your diet carefully, exercising and quitting smoking have all been shown to lower the risk of these diseases. But when it comes to dementia — including dementia related…
DetailsThe new drug slowed cognitive decline and reduced amyloid plaques, shown lower right in a colored light micrograph of an Alzheimer’s patient.CreditSimon Fraser/Science Source By Pam Belluck July 25, 2018 The long, discouraging quest for a medication that works to treat Alzheimer’s reached a potentially promising milestone on Wednesday. For the first time in a large…
DetailsScientists have found that people with thin retinas are more likely to develop dementia in later years By Martin Bagot Health And Science Correspondent 08:27, 24 JUL 2018 The thickness of the retina can predict a decline in brain power, an eye test study has proved. Scientists found that people with thin retinas were twice as likely…
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