What is your gut feeling?? I read something like this almost every week. Tumeric prevents Alzheimer's, too!!! Crossword puzzles keeps this dreaded brain disease at bay. Just exercise, and you'll be safe. I am so sorry..it's not like me to be such a doubting Thomas, but even my doctor rolled her eyes and held her arms up to heaven as she said she wished so much that these reporters wouldn't print these stories that create false hopes and then disappointment envelopes their lives all over again.
Just to be safe though, perhaps we should all drink licorice extract, gorge on Indian food laden with Tumeric, while working crossword puzzles as we peddle our exercycles. Prevention is the key word, -- I'm afraid there is still not a cure.
Hands-on Helping, A simple mood-boosting strategy for caregivers.
Looking after an ill or disabled loved one raises your risk of depression. But not all caregiving is alike: Providing help with physical tasks such as feeding or bathing can improve your sense of well-being, according to a new study. Caregiver spouses in the study experienced more positive emotions--and fewer negative ones--when actively tending to their partner's personal needs. More draining were passive pursuits such as sitting nearby in case trouble should arise. Study author Michael J. Poulin, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo, has this advice for caregivers: When someone offers to spell you, have them come while your loved on is asleep or resting. Keep those hands-on moments for yourself. ~ Melissa Gotthardt
I was not contacted by anyone for this study. Trying to get my hb to shave or shower does NOT improve my sense of well-being, and I don't expect this to change as we move on down the road. If someone should offer to spell me, I WON'T have them come during one of hb's 20' naps.
This little side note in the AARP mag made me laugh; so I guess that helped my mood.
Where on earth do they come up with these rediculous ideas. I felt like I had been run over by a MACK Truck after showering and dressing my husband. I'd NEVER shower and dress myself first, because I would be soaked, or HOT, or simply frazzled after helping him...... and, that was supposed to improve my sense of Well Being???????????????? C'mon, guys!!!!!!
Because the idiots who write this stuff have never showered, done P&P duty, or dressed an adult dementia patient. I don't have to do those things for my husband yet, but I DID have to help him shower when he first broke his foot, and I was EXHAUSTED. And wet. And my back hurt. It did NOTHING for my well being, except aggravate it.
Vickie...they are all wrong./...everyone knows that dementia is caused by excessive exposure to the moon's radiation, much like a sunburn is caused by a long exposure to the sun. Moonlight is very harmful if you spend too much time under the "Moonlight"...in the early stages of life, excessive exposure can cause heartache, pregnancy, and despair...In the later stages of life, it turns into dementia.
I am glad people are looking in other directions for something to help -we need it. I remember a couple years ago they came out with the antioxidant properties in licorice- not the candy for the licorice plant. Where I grew up at in Oregon, on the hillsides in the rocks the licorice plant (looked like a fern and is called licorice fern) grew. We use to pull it off and chew on the root. I think it is a plant like that she is talking about. Who knows what lies out there in nature. Galantamine originally came from a flower (snowdrop) until they now make it synthetically based on that flower's ingredient.