Dementia: What can I do to help?

Dementia: What can I do to help?

Dementia is a cruel disease. Only a small percentage of us will suffer from dementia but most of us know someone who is coping with it. Being a friend, caregiver and/or family member can be distressing and we often feel at a loss as to what to do to help. Here are...
Vitamin D and Dementia

Vitamin D and Dementia

A daily dose of ‘D’ Half of all women and a third of all men over 60 are diagnosed with Osteoporosis and low Vitamin D. (New Zealand statistics). Half of the U.S. population over age 65 has insufficient or deficient levels of Vitamin D. “There is a recent and...
Dementia on the Decline – UK

Dementia on the Decline – UK

Great news from Professor A. David Smith, University of Oxford Twenty years ago, the catch-cry was ‘eat well and take exercise to keep your heart healthy’. Do you remember that? You might still be making those lifestyle changes! If you have, You have been...
Will I get Alzheimer’s too?

Will I get Alzheimer’s too?

“I will be turning sixty-five in a couple of months and the thought of any kind of dementia scares the living daylights out of me.” ‘I am 62 years old and really concerned as the life of the mind is everything to me.’ Have YOU ever felt like...
Take the Dementia Quiz

Take the Dementia Quiz

1.     What is dementia? A disease involving memory loss that is entirely separate from Alzheimer’s disease A decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life Another term for Alzheimer’s A mental illness that’s usually alleviated...