Category Archives: dementia

Worried About Your Memory?

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The NIA (National Institute on Aging) has guidelines on what we should be concerned about when it comes to our memory. Take a look at the video and list of tips we can use to help us with forgetfulness.

News you can use 🙂

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/memory-forgetfulness-and-aging-whats-normal-and-whats-not

FYI – Brain Exercises
https://www.verywellmind.com/brain-exercises-to-strengthen-your-mind-2795039

FYI – Very Well Mind Podcast
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-verywell-mind-podcast-5113058

Fun Games
https://www.mentalup.co/blog/memory-games-for-seniors

All the best in Wellness!

Let’s Talk About Dementia

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News you could use 🙂

Below is a quote from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

How common is dementia?

“Of those at least 65 years of age, there is an estimated 5.0 million adults with dementia in 2014 and projected to be nearly 14 million by 2060.”

Click the link below to learn more about the various types of Dementia, and various indications about this challenging condition.


https://www.cdc.gov/aging/dementia/index.html

The more we know, the better we can adapt and explore how to get assistance with the aging process for ourselves, loved ones and people we care about.

Order free books in English or Spanish from the National Institute on Aging (NIH)

https://order.nia.nih.gov/

All the best in Wellness!

FYI: BRAIN HEALTH

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As always, News You Can Use 🙂

Click to access dementia-risk-tip-sheet.pdf

All the best in Wellness!

Revisiting a Conversation About Our Sense of Smell

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An on-going topic and cause of concerns being discussed since the onset of COVID-19 is the sense of smell.

Some of you may recall in August 2021, I interviewed Frauke Galia, of Falk Aromatherapy on my Wellness Connections podcast #11. In that podcast Frauke explained that there are various types of smell dysfunction ANOSMIA, for example has become a keyword when one becomes infected with COVID-19, and they temporarily lose the sense of smell. There’s also PAROSMIA, which is a smell dysfunction that distorts our sense of smell. You think that you smell one thing, and it is actually something else.

In addition, smell dysfunction has been linked to the early onset of some cognition problems. Read more at: https://www.judithguerra.com/smell-memory-for-senior-citizens

When your time and interest permit, listen to a recent podcast conducted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon who appears on CNN and reports on health and medical news. He is also part of AARP’s Staying Sharp programs. He interviews Dr. Zara Patel on his Chasing Life podcast, and she discusses olfactory training – aka – “smell training.
https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/chasing-life/episodes/7801c5d9-d268-4855-99d9-af170114b19c and is part of the Staying Sharp programs at AARP’s website.

And, once again, I suggest you visit Frauke Galia’s website and learn more about smell dysfunction, and training available for help. https://www.falkaromatherapy.com/osmias

Other sources for information:
https://oto.wustl.edu/covid-19-losing-one-sense-of-smell-and-regaining-it/
https://www.verywellhealth.com/anosmia-in-covid-19-sense-of-smell-may-return-5197462

All the best in Wellness!

Test Your Hearing for Free

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These links may help you to learn more about your hearing, and about over the counter hearing aids.
https://www.nationalhearingtest.org/wordpress/?page_id=2730

Just FYI –
https://www.seniorliving.org/hearing-aids/best/otc/

Hearing Loss and Dementia: What’s the Connection? (verywellhealth.com)

All the best in Wellness!

Brain Health

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This podcast has advice about how to keep our brain healthy. Topics are interesting and useful.

https://www.brainandlife.org/brain-and-life-podcast

All the best in Wellness!

Hearing Aids? Do you need them? How do you know?

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My Everyday Tools: Hearing Aids and Glasses

It seems odd that hearing aids are not something I focused on as a tool for assisting my “wellbeing” in a significant way.  If you think about it at all, it would seem that hearing aids are just as important as glasses for reading and driving. My favorite question these days, which I have adopted from Rachel Maddow of MSNBC –  “Why is that“?

Flash back to August of 2017, when I wrote a post about hearing loss, and at that time I called attention to the research, which determined that dementia ( I repeat, dementia) could be related to hearing loss. (https://livingsenior.me/2017/08/21/hearing-loss-dementia/)

Flash forward, after a recent hearing test (have you had one lately? ever had one?), my Audiologist doctor determined that I required hearing aids due to hearing loss in both ears.  In addition, she was concerned because difficulty hearing raises dementia risk. There it is again: dementia and hearing loss are related.

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