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01/16/11 Smoking Cessation – 10 Tips to Stop Driving

admin — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:32:40 +0000

Smoking Cessation – It’s like burning money, yet to many it’s so hard to quit. One of the cardinal rules is to do it for yourself. Although everyone around you will appreciate it. With so many options available, which is the best way to go? Cold Turkey, Hypnosis, the Patch, behaviour modification? We discuss stopping smoking with Mary Judge a nurse educator from Stamford Hospital in Stamford CT. Mary operates a smoking cessation program and discusses what it takes to stop successfully.

10 Signs That It’s Time To Give Up the Keys Deciding when an older adult is no longer fit to drive is a challenging issue with no clear answer. When it comes to dementia, the decision can be especially tricky. A recent study in the journal Neurology found that as many as 76 percent of people with mild dementia are still able to pass an on-road test and drive appropriately.

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1/16/11 Smoking Cessation with Mary Judge – Part 1
1/16/11 Smoking Cessation with Mary Judge – Part 2
1/16/11 Smoking Cessation with Mary Judge – Part 3
1/16/11 10 Signs That it’s Time to Give Up the Keys
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When Both Parents Suffer Dementia, Children Suspect It Is Also in Their Future

dennis — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:05:28 +0000

“I’ve seen a number of adult children that have not one but two parents with dementia,” “It’s like the perfect storm of dementia care.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/health/26double.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Alcohol Induced Dementia

dennis — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:18:03 +0000

Alcohol-induced dementia is the third or fourth most common type of intellectual loss in older persons. Alcoholic dementia is produced by long term heavy drinking that directly damages brain cells or causes health problems that produce brain damage

http://www.alzbrain.org/pdf/handouts/6001.ALCOHOL%20INDUCED%20DEMENTIA.pdf

A Brain Disorder Easily Missed

dennis — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:13:16 +0000

Mr. Ferguson, now 74, thought he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, incontinent and struggling with dementia. Ten doctors were unable to tell him what was wrong, but an Internet search by his daughter found a condition that seemed to match his symptoms: normal pressure hydrocephalus, or N.P.H.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26brod.html?ref=health

One in 10 had "silent strokes": study

dennis — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:03:20 +0000

Routine brain scans in a group of middle-aged people showed that 10 percent of them had suffered a stroke without knowing it, raising their risk for further strokes and memory loss

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN2633948620080627

Eating Fish Shown to Reduce Chance of Dementia

dennis — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:38:01 +0000

Eating Fish Shown to Reduce Chance of Dementia – A large scale study shows that as part of a regular diet, fish has positive effects on reducing the incidence of dementia

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12-13-09 Use It or Lose It: Dancing Makes You Smarter

dennis — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:43:15 +0000

Dancing Makes You Smarter – For hundreds of years dance manuals and other writings have lauded the health benefits of dancing, usually as physical exercise. More recently we’ve seen research on further health benefits of dancing, such as stress reduction and increased serotonin level, with its sense of well-being.
Then most recently we’ve heard of another benefit: Frequent dancing apparently makes us smarter.

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A Brain Disorder Easily Missed

dennis — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:19:39 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26brod.html?ref=health

A Surprising Sign of Dementia

dennis — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:46:43 +0000

Research published in the journal Neurology, finds that being too thin in later years-especially for those who lose weight rapidly or who had been overweight-may well be an early sign of dementia.

http://www.thirdage.com/alzheimers/a-surprising-sign-of-dementia?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl_health-wellness_20090605&utm_campaign=thirdage

Dietary fish and meat intake and dementia in Latin America, China, and India: a 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based study

dennis — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:02:11 +0000

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/rapidpdf/ajcn.2009.27580v1