A brief user friendly description of what happens when the Parietal Lobes are affected in dementia. Your comments and suggestions would be appreciated! This is an excerpt from the DementiaEd DVD ‘You’re the Expert: The Relationship Between Brain and Behaviour’ which is available from the Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling at their dementia resource shop www.dementiashop.co.uk (www.dementiashop.co.uk Also available is the DementiaEd DVD ‘Challenging Behaviour in Dementia’ You are free to copy and distribute these videos for non-profitable purposes. All DVDs profits support our carer education activities.
Brain Tips Against Aging, Alzheimers Disease & Dementia Abbi gives you tips to keep your brain healthy and alert despite aging. These are tips to help prevent or minimize the effects of Alzheimers Disease symptoms & Dementia. Take care of you brain to avoid early onset Alzheimers, and dont need a test for to catch the early signs, need treatment or Alzheimers drugs. Music By Jimmy Gelhaar www.jimmyg.us http youtube.com Copyright 2009 Target Public Media. All Rights Reserved.
“Pieces of our Minds,” a poem by Frances Shani Parker, is an excerpt from “Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes,” her nationally endorsed book. With poems, stories, and general information, “Becoming Dead Right” explores hospice care, urban nursing homes, caregiving, dementia, death preparations, and bereavement. Strategies for improving eldercare and nursing homes are examined. This groundbreaking book is published by Loving Healing Press. Author’s Website: www.FrancesShaniParker.com Author’s Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog hospiceandnursinghomes.blogspot.com Book Praise “This may be Ms. Parkers greatest gift to her readers bringing to life people and events that are indeed so often invisible. This book is truly a gift. The writing is eloquent and powerful, and the stories are instructive and lasting.” Dr. Peter A. Lichtenberg, Director, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan “This book is filled with poetry, stories, wisdom and common sense that can help boomers, students, caregivers and policy makers understand their own aging and realize that our society can – and should – make important changes that can ensure safe, dignified, individualized care at the end of our lives.” Alice Hedt – Executive Director, National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform “The second part of the book is about what we as individuals and as a society must do to improve things for those who are dying. I particularly enjoyed the …
Alzheimer’s care homes are an alternative to caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s at home or placing them in a nursing home. Find an Alzheimer’s care home, which is generally a small facility with trained staff, using tips from thepresident of the Alzheimers Foundation of America in this free video on Alzheimer’s disease. Expert: Eric J. Hall Contact: www.alzfdn.org Bio: Eric J. Hall is the president and founding chief executive officer of the Alzheimers Foundation of America (AFA), headquartered in New York City. Filmmaker: Paul Muller
Research Report: Alzheimer’s Disease. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University make exciting discoveries in Alzheimer’s Disease. Cleveland, Ohio.
Outlook show about the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute on the campus of West Virginia University. Clinical trials will begin this summer on a drug the Institute has shown to have great potential as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer’s disease research is explained by Prof. Marta Rosin of The School of Pharmacy, The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2010 8 min. English Presented by: Prof. Marta Rosin, School of Pharmacy, The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Director / Producer / Camera / Editor: Dr. Michael Beigel, Multimedia Assisted Learning, The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Produced by: Chief Scientist Office, Ministry of Health, Israel, in the framework of ERA-Net Neuron.
Caregiving for a loved one with Alzheimer’s is a tough journey. You must be able to survive one emotional upheaval after another and there are many paradoxes when one is attempting to stay connected with a spouse or parent who is becoming a different person. Caregivers and family members experience profound losses and relationship issues. Join expert Sandy Braff, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and co-author of Staying Connected While Letting Go: The Paradox of Alzheimer’s Caregiving, as she explains how to stay connected to your loved one with Alzheimer’s as you “let go”. Series: “SIRA (Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging)” [8/2007] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 12286]
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