If this column touched you, three excellent recent books on #dementia and #caregiving informed my perspective: "My Father's Brain" by Sandeep Jauhar, "Finding the Right Words" by Cindy Weinstein and Bruce Miller, and "Travelers to Unimaginable Lands" by Dasha Kiper. All worth reading.
The interferon signal that activates the immunological system, is one of the first things that the covid blocks after it ingresses the cell.
Thus there is not symptoms until after the virus had replicated for a few days, and had obtained advantage.
My strong suspicion is Omicrons #xbb are damaging brain more & now obsessed with #Alzheimer & #dementia not in terms of prevention, but progression signs
This is like watching a car crash in slow motion💔but people all see us merely as a #HennyPenny 🐓😣
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Surprised to find son having sad feelings right now. Out of nowhere while he was relaxing last hour. Saw mouth quivering and eyes welling with tears. I asked him if he was sad and he is. This is really rare. Maybe 4-6 times a year for brief times. Heartbreaking and also because he doesn’t know why. All I could do was hold his hands and acknowledge. He asked to lie down in bed, so caregiver is with him now in dark, quiet. #Alzheimer#Dementia
Disturbing New Finding Links Cognitive Decline to Dental Hygiene
'From the youngest age we're told we ought to brush our teeth to avoid losing them as we age. It now seems it's not just the health of our gums that are at stake. Our brain could suffer from poor dental hygiene'
For my last full day of "real" fasting, while needing to keep my exertion levels low, I'd re-read "The Alzheimer's Solution". It is a book on diet and lifestyle guidelines that reduce the risk and progression of Alzheimer's Disease. As I recall the Venn Diagram about what they are talking about lines up substantially with Blue Zones, Longo's Longevity Diet, and standard diet guidance. The book just has more focus on cognitive decline and Alzheimer's related tweaks and improvements. #health#longevity#fasting#dementia#Alzheimers The Alzheimer
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One dreadful effect of #Dementia is the possibility of extremely foul language and racist slurs. Of course there are a myriad of other nasty phrases, threats and delusions going on. Tough to care for your sweet family member who is having these episodes. Worse when 2 caregivers are young Black men. Thing is, we can’t stop it. None of this was ever part of his life or personality. His brain is broken and there are no filters during these episodes.
In other non apocalyptic news, #Lavender season is here in the UK. Took our mum to Carshalton Fields. She rocked the place in her Jams, bless her.
Highly recommended for those looking for a change of scene. Especially #carers.
I need to extend in-home caregiving network for my partner Alyssa: young-onset #parkinsons and (mainly) #dementia . She goes to a GREAT day program 3 days/week but the agency we're using for the other 2 days is struggling to find us reliable coverage.
Looking for recommendations of agencies or private caregivers to contact so we have more options!
A friend asked if I could describe my mom’s Dementia, so I told him to imagine a laptop … then to imagine spilling coffee on the keyboard. There are moments when the laptop works perfectly fine, but most times there are fragmented images on the screen or the screen simply goes blank.
Morning all. Not been on much - had a suspected #TIA last week and it's made me very self-reflecting. Having a quite week while waiting for the full assessment.
Hey guess what! I had two more attacks on Sunday, so I've had a full MOT and its not TIAs (mini-strokes) at all - its a #brain#lesion (tumour/cyst - TBD) causing #seizures instead. Primary, not secondary, and almost certainly treatable, so I should get a bit more adventuring out of this otherwise now proven, poked, prodded, blood-tested, ultrasounded, CT scanned, X-rayed and MRI'd (!) healthy body!
Bright side - its not #vascular#dementia like my Dad, so I shouldn't end up drooling in a care home for years, and I'll probably go pretty quick when I finally hang up my boots if the cards fall that way - hopefully many years hence! ✅ 👍
Although the precision of the estimates was affected by the limited sample size and the study design did not allow us to exclude the presence of residual confounding, these results suggest a possible role of LAN in the etiology of #dementia particularly of its late-onset form.
My dad died last week after a long battle with dementia. It's a slow and horrible disease. Dad and I didn't always see eye to eye. In fact, we were at loggerheads over a lot of important stuff. But I loved him, and he lived an amazing life that frankly, sometimes defied belief. He was in the Korean conflict (where he was flight engineer on Psiops missions and dropping spies behind North Korean lines), and later on dangerous test flights in a B-29 testing self-sealing fuel tanks over a bomb range. As a civilian he was a aircraft mechanic for military contractors, and for the rest of his working career a Field Service Rep for Bell Helicopter, traveling the world advising Bell customers in peace and war. He was imbedded with combat pilots in Vietnam, barely escaped the fall of Tehran, visited off-short oil rigs, shot at and forced down by drug lords in Columbia, rode out hurricanes in the bahamas, flew with Air America in Cambodia, shot at by troops off the coast of South America. He was immune to wealth or celebrity, but his eternal and genuine farm-boy charm allowed him to hob-nob with the rich, movie stars, captains of industry, high-ranking military, and high ranking politicians. He didn't care about any of it, and his favorite place was working in his shop fixing old vehicles or tools, and building amazing machines from scratch.
It was hard seeing this amazing guy slipping away year by year, day by day. Even as his memory faded, he retaining his humor and charm until near the end, when the disease (as if often does) strips away even that. It was sad to see him go, but the dad I knew left a long time ago. I wish we'd had more time together, but we lived far apart, and sometimes worlds apart, and the covid shutdown hit at a very bad time for both of us.
Eli Lilly drug shown to slow Alzheimer’s progression (arstechnica.com)
Dementia experts hail "watershed moment" after trial results for donanemab antibody treatment.