Download or read book The Alzheimer s Alphabet A Comprehensive Guide to Essential Terms for Families written by Nathan Richardson and published by Raghava Appikatla. This book was released on 2024-10-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating the world of Alzheimer's disease can feel overwhelming, a labyrinth of unfamiliar terms and complex medical concepts. This book acts as your personal guide, offering a clear and concise explanation of essential terminology related to Alzheimer's. Think of it as an alphabet for understanding the disease, one letter at a time. From "amyloid plaques" and "cholinesterase inhibitors" to "sundowning" and "vascular dementia," this comprehensive resource defines key terms in a way that is easy to comprehend. It explores the different stages of Alzheimer's, discusses the role of genetics and environmental factors, and delves into the emotional and practical aspects of caring for someone with the disease. Written with sensitivity and empathy, this book is not just a dictionary but a tool for empowerment. It equips families with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions, advocate for their loved ones, and navigate the challenges of this complex condition. By understanding the vocabulary of Alzheimer's, you can begin to understand the disease itself, paving the way for better communication, informed care, and a stronger sense of control during a difficult journey.

Download or read book Alzheimer S Through the Alphabet written by Leslie F. Hergert and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a vivid story of life with Alzheimersor at least, one story of one family with an unusual sense of humor. Told in an unconventional style (through the alphabet rather than chronologically), Leslie F. Hergert describes the sadness, humor, and challenges of caring for a partner with Alzheimers Disease through its many stages. Each letter of the alphabet provides reflections on some facet of the Alzheimers experience, told with honesty and a wry eye. Leslie spoke at our conference on Dementia and attendees said that her stories were the most powerful part of a very good conference. Her book extends that speech to provide an inside view of living with Alzheimers, a comfort for others living with the disease and an education for outsiders. Nancy Willbanks, Somerville Cambridge Elder Services Ms. Hergert writes candidly and poignantly about her experience caring for her husband with early onset Alzheimers Disease. She touches upon the major cognitive, psychological, and functional changes that occur over the course of the disease, and she provides practical tips to caregivers on how to manage them. She also writes movingly about the multiple emotions she felt as she accompanied her husband on the journey, reminding all of us that there are moments of joy and laughter even among those of loss and grief. I have no doubt that readers will find her words of wisdom helpful. Serena Chao, MD, MSc; Geriatrics Division Chief, Cambridge Health Alliance; Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Download or read book The Meshk Technique for Alzheimer s Disease written by Mohammad Seyedielmabad and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the output of a fundamental study that investigates human memory from a comprehensive perspective. The author’s interest in discovering the structure and function of complex systems and providing simple and inexpensive solutions to the challenges facing humans led him to focus his research on human memory. As a result, his research has created a new insight into the structure and function of memory in humans called Meshk theory. The word Meshk in Kurdish means brain. Kurdish is the only living language in the world that has extensively preserved its ancient Sumerian roots over thousands of years. The book breaks down the complicated scientific and biological concepts associated with human memory into a more understandable way. It also describes in detail the theory of Meshk and the technique developed based on its concepts for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The structure discovered for human memory in the theory called Human Memory Strand (HMS), as a super-DNA structure with extraordinary regenerative ability, is a turning point in the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, especially Alzheimer’s. In this way, based on HMS, a simple, cost-free, and practical method called Meshk technique has been developed to restore memory information. The technique can be used effectively for all people to prevent Alzheimer’s disease as well as to retrieve memory for people at any stage of the disease. The Meshk theory has been nominated for several international awards, including the Think Tank Awards 2021 and the AAIC 2022 Blas Frangione Early Career Achievement Award.

Download or read book The Alzheimer s Prevention Food Guide written by Sue Stillman Linja RDN, LD and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortify your diet to help prevent Alzheimer's. It's natural to be concerned that there's nothing you can do to reduce your risk of Alzheimer's—especially if it runs in your family. Fortunately, there is something that can help prevent it: the right diet. The Alzheimer's Prevention Food Guide is a nutritional guide to the food that protects your brain. With this guide, you can look up foods fast to find out if they're "brain healthy." Unlike other Alzheimers books, this one even includes information about popular diets like MIND and Keto so you can compare them side-by-side and make the right decisions for you. The Alzheimer's Prevention Food Guide is one of the only Alzheimers books that offers: Sample meal templates—find out what kind of foods (and how much of them) you should be eating with every meal. A 2-week meal plan—start strong with 14 days of prescribed meals and learn what good choices look like. Brain healthy food combinations—mix and match brain-healthy ingredients with profiles on over 115 different foods. Other Alzheimers books focus on treatment after the fact, but this one equips you with the knowledge you need to keep your brain in fighting form with the right food.

Download or read book ABC s of Alzheimers Disease written by Bruce Bauer and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABCs of Alzheimer's Disease: a Shared Reality by Me and My Shadow is a story of Bruce and Ethel's Alzheimer's disease (AD) journey, along with a history of AD from autopsies to PET scan research, including technology and genetic discoveries. The book is a realistic, short, comprehensive, evidence-based, description of Alzheimer's disease (AD). It describes AD research, including clinical trials, a simplified understanding of the brain, and the experiences of patient/caregiver persistence and journey as well as hope for the future research possibilities through worldwide basic science, biology, genetic, mathematics, and technology evolution and discoveries. In addition, it identifies AD issues, uncertainties, and author's comments, along with "outside the box" ideas for governance to provide leadership for the coming Alzheimer's disease tsunami. With the future facing an AD tsunami and potential shortage of care personnel, the book provides potential for education and/or training for candidate patients, caregivers, primary care doctors, nurses, physician assistants, license nurse practitioners, certified nurse assistant, institutional care personnel, in-home health personnel, hospital personnel, educators, and politicians. In addition, this book could be a supplement document for geriatric schooling as well as an enlightening and educating source for political leaders (all three branches of government) and their staffs. The book describes a stage by stage behavior symptoms tied to cognitive measures and Alzheimer Association warning signs, along with suggestions for caregiver, relative to patient's state of decline. The book addresses why clinical trials have been failing and why hope for delay and prevention may be forthcoming as well as the 2011 paradigm shift and current presymptomatic candidacy. Clinical trials adventures, along with a suggestion to eliminate the placebo cohort group are described. So, what does the future hold for Alzheimer's disease-hope, promises, delay, prevention, or cure? These are all wants. What is reality? Moving research targets are being addressed and pursued with evolving knowledge and tools. This evolution will probably make current targets obsolete in twenty years. For reality, you be the judge after reading this book. "Out the box" ideas are provided that require governance action for confronting the coming AD tsunami and associated diversity care.

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Global Arts Education written by Georgina Barton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to arts education across the world. It is divided into six sections; Contextualising Arts Education, Globally and Locally; Arts Education, Curriculum, Policy and Schooling; Arts Education Across the Life Span; Arts Education for Social Justice: Indigenous and Community Practice; Health, Wellbeing and Arts Education and Arts-Based and Research-Informed Arts Education. The Handbook explores global debates within education in the areas of dance, drama, music, media and visual arts. Presenting wide-ranging research from pedagogies of adaptation developed in Uganda to ethnomusicology in Malaysia and community participatory arts to wellbeing in Canada the Handbook highlights the universal need for arts education and in particular the importance of indigenous (including both traditional and contemporary practice) arts education. With contributions from internationally renowned scholars and practitioners and building on the World Alliance for Arts Education Global Summit in 2014, the Handbook creates an essential resource for arts education practices in and out of school alongside institutional, traditional and contemporary contexts. Students, teachers and practitioners across the arts disciplines will find the text invaluable for developing further opportunities to promote and study arts education.

Download or read book Learning about Learning written by Samuel A. Malone and published by CIPD Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coverage includes educational psychology, personal development, accelerated learning, study skills, memory, the brain, nutrition, and training and development.

Download or read book Living with Alzheimer s written by Renée L. Beard and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News of Alzheimer’s disease is constantly in the headlines. Every day we hear heart-wrenching stories of people caring for a loved one who has become a shell of their former self, of projections about rising incidence rates, and of cures that are just around the corner. However, we don't see or hear from the people who actually have the disease. In Living with Alzheimer’s, Renée L. Beard argues that the exclusively negative portrayals of Alzheimer’s are grossly inaccurate. To understand what life with memory loss is really like, Beard draws on intensive observations of nearly 100 seniors undergoing cognitive evaluation, as well as post-diagnosis interviews with individuals experiencing late-in-life forgetfulness. Since we all forget sometimes, seniors with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis ultimately need to be socialized into medicalized interpretations of their forgetfulness. In daily life, people with the disease are forced to manage stigma and the presumption of incompetence on top of the actual symptoms of their ailment. The well-meaning public, and not their dementia, becomes the major barrier to a happy life for those affected. Beard also examines how these perceptions affect treatment for Alzheimer’s. Interviews with clinicians and staff from the Alzheimer’s Association reveal that despite the best of intentions, pejorative framings of life with dementia fuel both clinical practice and advocacy efforts. These professionals perpetuate narratives about “self-loss,” “impending cures,” and the economic and emotional “burden” to families and society even if they do not personally believe them. Yet, Beard also concludes that in spite of these trends, most of the diagnosed individuals in her study achieve a graceful balance between accepting the medical label and resisting the social stigma that accompanies it. In stark contrast to the messages we receive, this book provides an unprecedented view into the ways that people with early Alzheimer’s actively and deliberately navigate their lives.

Download or read book Outsmarting Alzheimer s written by Kenneth S. Kosik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Understand the six keys to protecting brain health, personalize your 3-week plan based on the latest science, make fun and easy lifestyle changes."

Download or read book PET in the Evaluation of Alzheimer s Disease and Related Disorders written by Dan Silverman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among all the clinical indications for which radiologists, nuclear medicine phy- cians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists (and others examining disorders of the brain) order and read brain PET scans, demand is greatest for those pertaining to dementia and related disorders. This demand is driven by the sheer prevalence of those conditions, coupled with the fact that the differential diagnosis for causes of cognitive impairment is wide and often difficult to distinguish clinically. The conceptual framework by which evaluation and management of dementia is guided has evolved considerably during the last decade. Although we still are far from having ideal tests or dramatic cures for any of the established causes of dementia, our options have expanded with respect to both the diagnostic and the- peutic tools now available. In the first chapter of this book, the contribution and limitations of different elements of the clinical examination for diagnosis of cog- tive symptoms are described, and the roles of structural and functional neuroim- ing in the clinical workup are given context.

Download or read book Alzheimer s Disease What If There Was a Cure 3rd Edition written by Mary T. Newport and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third Edition, Fully Updated and Expanded There is hope, there is relief, there is another way to treat Alzheimer’s disease! More than 6.5 million people in the United States suffer from Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Mary T. Newport’s husband, Steve, was one of them. In Alzheimer’s Disease: What If There Was a Cure?, Dr. Newport shares Steve’s story—how he fell into the abyss that is Alzheimer’s disease and was able to climb back out to enjoy a nearly four-year reprieve from the disease, thanks to a dietary intervention with coconut oil and MCT (medium-chain triglyceride) oil. Since Steve’s remarkable turnaround from early-onset Alzheimer’s in 2008, Dr. Newport has communicated with hundreds of people and their caregivers dealing with neurodegenerative diseases. In addition to detailing the most recent research on the links between Alzheimer’s and many common medications, Dr. Newport illustrates how infection, inflammation, and genetic makeup may affect an individual’s response to fatty-acid therapy. She also covers the recent advances in imaging technologies, which have made it possible to detect subtle changes in the brain a decade or more before a person develops obvious symptoms, giving at-risk individuals the opportunity to take preventive measures. While the cause of Alzheimer’s disease is not known, Dr. Newport’s research offers a message of hope and shows how adopting certain lifestyle changes could prevent, delay, or otherwise alter the course of the disease.

Download or read book Writing and Literacy in Chinese Korean and Japanese written by Insup Taylor and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes how the three East Asian writing systems-Chinese, Korean, and Japanese- originated, developed, and are used today. Uniquely, this book: (1) examines the three East Asian scripts (and English) together in relation to each other, and (2) discusses how these scripts are, and historically have been, used in literacy and how they are learned, written, read, and processed by the eyes, the brain, and the mind. In this second edition, the authors have included recent research findings on the uses of the scripts, added several new sections, and rewritten several other sections. They have also added a new Part IV to deal with issues that similarly involve all the four languages/scripts of their interest. The book is intended both for the general public and for interested scholars. Technical terms (listed in a glossary) are used only when absolutely necessary.

Download or read book The Alzheimer s Family written by Robert B. Santulli and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to families' questions and fears with compassion.

Download or read book The Alzheimer s Solution written by Kenneth S. Kosik, M.D. and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The solution research neurologist Kosik and medical journalist Clegg propose reads like the opening round in what they clearly hope will become a national dialogue about optimizing treatment for people with dementia, including Alzheimer's disease... Cogent, thorough, and convincing. -BooklistAs the Baby Boomer generation moves into the ranks of the elderly in the next decade or two, the number of Alzheimer cases expected to develop will be staggering. Since current medical care cannot offer a cure, and even significantly effective treatment is at least ten years away, there is a pressing need for novel solutions to address the multifaceted issues raised by this devastating disease.This book offers a measure of hope and coping strategies for people facing Alzheimer's now or in the future. Authors Kenneth S. Kosik, MD, a neurologist and a leading Alzheimer's researcher, and experienced healthcare journalist Ellen Clegg propose the creation of community centers devoted to Alzheimer's. Here patients and their families could access programs of care, treatment, and most importantly, prevention, outside of the traditional medical setting.They outline a bold vision of one-stop centers that would provide expertise and reliable information on a range of topics: pharmaceutical developments, dietary regimens, physical and cognitive exercise programs that may help to slow the disease process, and palliative measures to reduce suffering. Most important, the centers they describe would take a family-oriented, personalized approach to care and prevention, creating an atmosphere conducive to adult learning and facilitating personal growth in areas that patients have enjoyed over a lifetime, including the arts, dance, socializing, and a host of other possibilities.The authors explain why the current healthcare system is poorly equipped to deal with Alzheimer patients, why the standard medical model is inappropriate for cognitive disorders, how market economics stymies physician creativity, and how new initiatives that work outside the existing system could go a long way toward providing the help that is lacking today.For people prepared to take action now to prevent Alzheimer's, as well as healthcare professionals seeking ways to help their patients, this book is a must read.Kenneth S. Kosik, MD (Santa Barbara, CA), is the Harriman Chair in Neurosciences, co-director of the Neuroscience Research Institute, and professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously, Dr. Kosik was professor of neurology and neuroscience at Harvard Medical School.Ellen Clegg (Boston, MA) is Managing Editor for Communications Platforms at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a genetic research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Previously, she was Deputy Managing Editor/News Operations of the Boston Globe. Her prior positions at the Globe include Sunday editor and health and science editor. She is the author of ChemoBrain: How Cancer Therapies Can Affect Your Mind.

Download or read book Alzheimer s Disease in the Middle aged written by Hyun Sil Jeong and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dementia is a brain disorder that seriously affects a person's ability to carry out daily activities. The most common form of dementia among older people is Alzheimer's disease (AD), which involves the parts of the brain that control thought, memory, and language. Age is the most important known risk factor for AD. The number of people with the disease doubles every 5 years beyond age 65. AD is a slow disease, starting with mild memory problems and ending with severe brain damage. The course the disease takes and how fast changes occur vary from person to person. On average, AD patients live from 8 to 10 years after they are diagnosed, though the disease can last for as many as 20 years. Current research is aimed at understanding why AD occurs and who is at greatest risk of developing it, improving the accuracy of diagnosis and the ability to identify those at risk, discovering, developing, and testing new treatments, and discovering treatments for behavioral problems in patients with AD. This new book gathers state-of-the-art research from leading scientists throughout the world which offers important information on understanding the underlying causes and discovering the most effective treatments for Alzheimer's Disease.

Download or read book The Alzheimer s Answer written by Marwan Sabbagh and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A front-line researcher offers cutting-edge advice on preventing and slowing the progress of Alzheimer's Drawing on the most up-to-date information available on the disease as well as experiences from his clinical practice, Dr. Marwan Sabbagh, a leading expert in Alzheimer's research, translates the current ideas driving Alzheimer's treatment into practical information you can use to determine your risk and develop a prevention strategy. You'll find tools for assessing your personal Alzheimer's risk and "What You Can Do" sections to help you keep your brain and body healthy, plus information on the treatment of Alzheimer's and its complications. Gives you the most up-to-date information on Alzheimer's and Alzheimer's prevention Written by a neurologist specializing in geriatric neurology and dementia who is one of the country's leading experts in Alzheimer's research Includes exciting revelations, such as finding that early onset Alzheimer's can be significantly slowed in its progress, giving the patient as many as ten to fifteen added years of quality life There are an estimated 5.2 million people living with Alzheimer's in America today. If you or someone you love is at risk of developing the disease or wishes to slow its advancement, this book will give you vital information to help you reduce risk and safeguard health and quality of life.