An important new study out of France reveals something striking: wearing hearing aids may actually help slow cognitive decline among seniors. This study, reported at the blog site of AARP, seems to show a linkage between better hearing and a healthier brain. Click here to access this fascinating article. The study, recently published in The … Read more
He was one of the funniest people in a generation. On stage and on screen, Robin Williams’ unique brand of rapid-fire comedy entertained the world for four decades. So the death by suicide of this treasured comedian and actor in August 2014 shocked and saddened us all. At the time, depression was blamed for Williams’ … Read more
When we talk with our clients about healthy aging, the biggest single thing most of them worry about is cognitive decline. There is probably no other health condition that so completely robs retirees of their dream to live independently. Cognitive decline is often the chief factor that results in seniors being forced into institutional care … Read more
In our quest to maximize our quality of life, we all want to avoid becoming a burden to our loved ones as we age. That’s one reason cognitive decline is so difficult for seniors and their loved ones: as our ability to think clearly diminishes, so does our ability to live independently. According to a recent … Read more
Few of our age-related maladies fill us with more dread than Alzheimer’s disease. Globally this debilitating illness, now the sixth leading cause of death, affects over 36 million men and women – about five million here in the U.S. Here’s a sobering prediction: by 2050, this number is expected to triple. Planning ahead to avoid … Read more
Aging brains begin to exhibit decline by the time we are in our mid-to-late 20s. Yep. That’s right. Scientists begin seeing a decrease in the volume and weight of a brain and the brain begins to lose some of its functional abilities when we still think we are on top of the world and have … Read more
In a very small study of ten individuals with memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease, amnestic mild cognitive impairment or subjective cognitive impairment, nine of the ten individuals experienced subjective or objective improvement in their memories within three to six months of beginning a program. The remaining individual had late stage Alzheimer’s and did not … Read more
When we are faced with knowledge or information that shakes up our world view and turns it upside down, we resort to a kind of denial called cognitive dissonance. It’s a natural response to avoid losing our emotional equilibrium and reduce psychological tension and distress. Admitting to memory problems can be the road to loss … Read more
I was at a networking meeting at the Narrows Glen in Tacoma the other day and someone brought up a recent 60 Minute story on a family with a genetic predisposition to early onset Alzheimer’s disease. All the individuals in the group work with (or in my case write about) seniors. That meant that we … Read more
In 2012, The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning linking the use of statins to memory loss and confusion unrelated to dementias such as Alzheimer’s disease. Because of that warning, some experts recommended against the use of statins for the approximately 30 million, mostly older Americans, using statins to control cholesterol levels. However, new … Read more
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