Have you seen the
Hoagies Blog Hop on Gifted Elder Issues?
A few more resources which may be of interest:
1) BrainFacts.org has a collection of online articles on aging, including
Aging in Different Ways and other articles linked from that article's webpage.
2)
Dementia Today is an online newsletter with an extensive collection of articles.
3) Research by Dr. Bredesen, conducted through a joint effort of UCLA and the Buck Institute, indicates that memory loss associated with Alzheimer's may be reversible:
article on the website of Buck Institute for research on aging.
Related book, published August 2017:
The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline, by Dale E. Bredesen, MD.
4) TED Talk, May 19, 2017: "
What you can do to prevent Alzheimers", by Lisa Genova, neuroscientist and author of
Still Alice. Tips include:
- Avoid sleep deprivation, experience deep sleep.
- Maintain cardiovascular health. High blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, smoking, high cholesterol increase risk... while aerobic exercise, heart-healthy Mediterranean lifestyle and diet can help counter.
- Develop neuro-plasticity and cognitive reserve: Be a lifelong learner, engage regularly in mentally stimulating activities. This creates new alternative pathways in the brain to avoid damaged synapse pathways.
Lessons observed from her grandmother include:
- Diagnosis does not mean stop living.
- Will retain emotional memory, understand love.
- You are more than what you remember.
5)
The Alzheimer's Medical Advisor, A Caregiver's Guide (July 2017)
6) These articles from ADDitude online resource:
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Signs of Adult ADHD? Or Old Age?-
Inside the Aging ADHD Brain7) YouTube video summarizing one adult daughter's hindsight, as her mother's caregiver through the 7 progressive stages of Alzheimer's:
8) TED Talk
A mother and son's photographic journey through dementiaTony Luciani
TEDx Cambridge
May 2018
9) TED Talk
The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care - Hogeweyk (Amsterdam)
Yvonne van Amerongen
TED Women 2018
