Old and ageist: Why so many older people have prejudices about their peers - and themselvesOld and ageist: Why so many older people have prejudices about their peers - and themselves Apr 3Residents enjoy a town square in the original dementia village, the Hogeweyk, in the Netherlands.
It's an unusual nursing home designed like a village to make life feel as normal as possible for people with advanced dementia.
It’s been 10 years since a Dutch senior housing nonprofit opened a groundbreaking nursing home for people with dementia that was designed to look and feel like a small village.
The “dementia village” quickly earned admiring stories from newspapers and television programs.
Studies supported the idea that living in the village is associated with better behavior, social interaction, and satisfaction.
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Standing for a two-hour chunk during the work day, that study found, may lead to physical discomfort all over the body, and make it harder to stay focused and energized.
So if it’s not great to sit or stand all day, what should you do at the office?
The best way to make a choice for yourself, he says, is to consult your doctor.
That said, Isaacson says the bulk of scientific evidence supports the notion that we should minimize time spent sitting.
(He does recommend wearing supportive shoes and standing on a soft mat, to reduce strain on the back and joints.)
Association Between Psychosis and Development of Dementia in Older MenShare this content:linkedingoogleEmailPrintThe authors recruited 37,770 men aged 65 to 85 from the Australian Electoral Roll between 1996 and 1998.
The authors recruited 37,770 men aged 65 to 85 from the 1996 to 1998 Australian Electoral Roll.
During the 17.7-year study, dementia developed in 21.4% (n=8068), and 23,999 (63.5%) died during follow-up.
Continue Reading BelowDementia developed approximately 3 times more frequently in people in whom a psychotic disorder was present.
These disorders included schizophrenia, persistent delusional disorders, acute and transient psychotic disorders, schizoaffective disorders, and other non-organic or unspecified psychotic disorders.
There are more than 5.5 million Americans today living with Alzheimer’s disease (which represents 65-70% of all disease-based dementias).
One in 10 Americans over the age of 65 has Alzheimer’s disease, and in Florida, there are currently 520,000 people with the disease and that number will exceed 580,000 by 2020.
In 2016, 15 million Americans provided 18.2 billion hours of care to people with dementia without compensation.
What that means to business owners is that a significant number of your workers are trying to provide care while trying to do their jobs.
In short, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias cost American businesses $61 billion a year, of which $36.5 billion includes costs relating to lost productivity of employees providing care.
Antiherpetic Medications May Reduce Risk for DementiaShare this content:linkedingoogleEmailPrintAntiherpetic medications, either overall or individual antivirals, were associated with decreased risk of developing dementia.
Individuals with herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections may have a 2.56-fold increased risk for dementia and the use of antiherpetic medications was associated with a decrease in dementia risk, according to research published in Neurotherapeutics.1A retrospective cohort study using Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database identified 8362 patients with new HSV infections and 25,086 randomly selected sex- and age-matched controls without HSV.
The use of claims data allowed patients with dementia to be identified but no data on severity or stage were available, nor were data on antiherpetic treatment durations.
There were no imaging or other laboratory data available, so investigators relied on physician diagnosis.
Furthermore, the investigators noted that while “several community studies have revealed that Alzheimer dementia is the most common cause of dementia, followed by vascular dementia, and mixed or other dementias,”2-4 most of the dementias in this study were other types of dementia.
An Indiana researcher co-authored the first study to look at whether or not an annual wellness visit improves the detection of cognitive impairment.
A 2011 mandate of the Affordable Care Act, ACA, added an annual wellness visit for people on Medicare that recommends detected cognitive impairments.
The study suggests care providers did not have enough guidance and found there was also noincrease in additional cognitive testing, including brain imaging.
Fowler says much of her recent research focuses on the impact of early detection of Alzheimer's.
"The interest of early detection is because we really don’t have a lot of evidence to know what are the benefits and risks of early detection," Fowler says.
Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalusA couple of weeks ago we mentioned iNPH, or idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, as a form of dementia that often masquerades as Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease — but isn’t.
There is fluid — and hence, pressure — buildup in the brain.
So now you can think of the name of the condition as a tag identifying where you want to be and what you want to achieve: normal pressure.
If they find what looks like harmful CFS pressure buildup, the next step is an external lumbar drainage (spinal tap), which will identify the folks who will respond to shunt surgery.
(Google “Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Bob Fowler 2005.”) He’s no longer with us, but he pioneered NPH awareness after he was given his life back following shunt surgery over 14 years ago.
Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalusA couple of weeks ago we mentioned iNPH, or idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, as a form of dementia that often masquerades as Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease — but isn’t.
There is fluid — and hence, pressure — buildup in the brain.
So now you can think of the name of the condition as a tag identifying where you want to be and what you want to achieve: normal pressure.
If they find what looks like harmful CFS pressure buildup, the next step is an external lumbar drainage (spinal tap), which will identify the folks who will respond to shunt surgery.
(Google “Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Bob Fowler 2005.”) He’s no longer with us, but he pioneered NPH awareness after he was given his life back following shunt surgery over 14 years ago.
A recent study investigated whether adults with congenital heart disease have an increased risk of developing dementia.
Congenital heart disease is a heart abnormality or defect present at birth.
Occurring in approximately six to ten per 1000 births, congenital heart disease is the most common malformation in newborns.
Therefore, attention is now being paid to common morbidities (co-occurring disease) acquired by adults with congenital heart disease.
A known adverse outcome associated in children born with congenital heart disease is neurodevelopment deficits during childhood and early adulthood.
As people age, it can become easy for their friends and family to forget the person they used to be.
By learning more about the person within, they can give their clients a sense of fulfillment and purpose.
ComForCare Home Services believes that providing the best possible care for someone in need is improved by learning more about the person their client used to be when they were younger.
ComForCare takes pride in providing all clients with special attention, and this special attention absolutely includes getting to know the person inside.
ComForCare of Palm Beach Gardens offers private-duty, non-medical home health care that allows people to age comfortably, safely and happily in place.