Holiday decorations can provide a lot of meaning, connection, and joy at the holidays, but for someone living with dementia, they may also cause a lot of behaviors such as agitation, confusion, and even increase fall risk. Let’s talk about how decorations might affect a person with dementia and how to navigate decorations at the …
June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month – a perfect time to learn about Alzheimer’s disease, reflect on your own brain health and that of your loved ones, and learn ways to prevent it. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. It devastates a person’s memory, thinking and behavior. It can overwhelm families …
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Activities help decrease challenging behaviors in dementia, but they need to be set up in a way that people with dementia know to use them. Too often we just put out an activity, or keep things on a shelf in another room, or wait for our loved one to ask to do something, but in …
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Is your loved one having trouble cooking, paying bills, sending emails, or doing other everyday tasks that were once easy for them? Have they been getting frustrated and angry more easily, maybe even getting short with you while trying to make a phone call or heating up food? These are all signs that a person may …
Wondering if the forgetfulness and confusion you are seeing in a loved one or yourself could be early signs of dementia? Let’s take a look at what some of the early signs are, and four tips for living a brain healthy life. Brain Healthy Points: The earliest signs of dementia are changes in walking gait, …
The other night my husband asked me: “Has this time change made you feel really depressed the last few days?” Yes! We have both been feeling kind of sad and depressed in the evenings and waking up with a shot of anxiety. It’s the week of the end of Daylight Savings Time for the year, …
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If you are a parent, you may know the book, Go the F@*K to Sleep by Adam Mansbach. It is written like a children’s book, but is really a book for parents. The book is a reflection of just how exhausted parents are when their kids don’t sleep, and thus, the parents get no sleep. …
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I hate flu season. I have always had a lot of anxiety around getting sick and flu season is my worst nightmare. We live in California now, but when we lived in Ohio, I actually liked the cold weather because I could wear gloves to protect myself from germs, but no one thought it was …
I have been working with a lot of teen athletes for a while now and I wanted to provide a few general tips on how I look at helping teens with their nutrition. First, a bit of background on how I define “athlete” and how I see nutrition: Any teen that is active and probably …
