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Mark Levin
Democrats Are Threatening Israel's Very Survival
"You know it's interesting when israel one it's independence the state of israel and people get confused with that and how how long the jewish people have been there the jewish people have been there for four thousand years but the modern state of israel the establishment of the state of israel it was proclaimed on may 14 1948 within a few hours president truman issued from the white house a statement that said the states united government recognized the provisional government as the de facto authority the new state of israel two days later the soviet union followed with a formal recognition to an exchange of letters by stalin's right -hand man stoff and should talk the foreign minister of israel and it said confirm your receipt of your telegram on may 16 in which you inform the government of the ussr of the proclamation on the basis of the revolution of the united nations resolution november 1947 of the creation of alzheimer the independent state of israel make requests for the recognition of state of by the ussr i inform you in this letter that the government of the ussr has decided to recognize officially the state of israel and its provisional government so today's so two days later the soviet union recognizes israel and from that moment until 1967 formal diplomatic relations but seven diplomatic relations were broken off and weren't resumed until 1991 one the . also israel's closest ally the state of israel was established was not the united states it was france. france was israel's closest ally and it's believed that france provided israel with certain technological information to enable them to build atomic weapons it was france. eisenhower was a little chilly toward israel at least at the toward the end by the despite what some israeli officials are saying at the highest levels in even worse than obama even though obama's acolytes are surrounding biden in instituting their ideological agenda the fact is you can see since obama's presidency that the demographics of the country enhance the demographics of the democrat party have significantly changed. there's more islamists operating under the umbrella of the democrat and receiving tenure and receiving student visas and all the rest of it than during the obama administration and exist big time now and being funded by billionaires and they're being lost network and others
The Big Take
Fresh update on "alzheimer" discussed on The Big Take
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Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Mindful Gifting for Caregivers and Dementia Navigators
"Remember the joy of unwrapping a thoughtful gift that was just the right fit for you? Well, being a caregiver doesn't diminish that need, it just changes it. Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming Elizabeth Miller from the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, who brings with her an array of gift giving ideas for caregivers and those living with dementia. Our conversation zigzags through a spectrum of unique gifts, focusing on both physical items and shared experiences. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice, you can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. When I learned that despite eating as healthy as possible, we can still have undernourished brains, I was frustrated. Learning about neuro reserves, Relev8, and how it's formulated to fix this problem convinced me to give them a try. Now I know many of you are skeptical, as was I. However, I know it's working because of one simple change. My sweet tooth is gone. I didn't expect that, and it's not something other users have commented on, but here's some truth. My brain always wanted something sweet. Now fruit usually did the trick, but not always. One bad night's sleep would fire up my sugar cravings so much they were almost impossible to ignore. You ever have your brain screaming for a donut? Well, for me, those days are gone. I believe in my results so much that I'm passing on my 15 % discount to you. Try it for two or three months and see if you have a miraculous sweet tooth cure, or maybe just better focus and clarity. It's definitely worth a try. Now on with our show. Hello, hello, you guys are gonna love today because we're talking about gifts and gift giving for people with dementia. And it's a perfect day to discuss that because today is my daughter's birthday. So I would wish her a happy birthday, but she's not a listener. So what I will do is thank Elizabeth Miller from the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast for coming on and sharing her gift guide and her knowledge. So thanks for joining us today, Elizabeth. Thank you for having me, I'm excited to be here. Awesome, I know we haven't done one together. I was on your show a while ago, but you haven't been online. Yes, vice versa. Yes, I love Fading Memories and I love that it's part of the whole care network. Definitely, so. We're all part of the same family. So you've been podcasting for six years as well, right? Yep, I'm in my sixth season. I launched in November's National Family Caregivers Month. So happy National Family Caregivers Month, everybody. And that was a launch. I try to do some kind of special every year, but I think I don't really have a launch this year. Just keep on keeping on. I've been really focusing on the speaking part of my business and really trying to get out there as far as reaching different companies and organizations to scale the caregiving support. Yes, it's definitely something we need. So where should we start? Do you wanna start with gifts for caregivers or gifts for people living with dementia? Let's, I mean, I'm always one to put the caregivers first. So like - Sounds like a plan. Yeah, so I think when it comes to buying gifts for caregivers, anything is probably going to be appreciated, right? We're just so grateful that somebody has been thinking about us and has us top of mind. But there's a lot of different things you can do, I think, for a family caregiver. And of course I also like self -care focused ones because not only are you giving them a gift, but you're giving them a tool of something that can help them mitigate burnout. So anything from like stuff that they would use like every day, we just had this in the fall, we have a sister's weekend and we do this favorite things party. Have you ever heard of that? Where we decided we were gonna each bring three things. We were gonna be $25 or less. This might be a great idea for someone to do as a swap exchange for their book club or their caregiver support group or whatnot. But I brought three of the same things. We kind of presented them, they're not wraps. But I got a lot of good ideas there this year for things like we had the things to clean our glasses, which would be a good thing for, they're called peeps. They're good for caregivers and for care recipients. Anybody who's wearing sunglasses even because they get grody, right? Very practical gift constantly. And then we had things like I'm wearing it now, actually. I love this Maybelline Lifter Gloss. It's affordable, it tastes good. Not that you're eating it, but you're gonna get some in your mouth on something. Smells good, it stays on decent. So I had brought that as part of mine. And then there was some cool body scrubs and lotions from, I think it was called La La Licious. So I think anything that can help us, oh, a boom stick was another one. It was like stuff that, this would be a very handy little makeup tool for a caregiver because you can put some quick color on your face, you can use it on your lips. Like it's one of those try it anywhere type of things. That's something you could like throw in your purse or your bag and when you look in the mirror and go, oh, it kind of looks so painful. Emergency, emergency. Yeah, put it, throw it in your self care tote. So I think little things like that, everybody's got different budgets these days as far as stuff that you can use. We did this, I do a Happy Healthy Caregiver virtual cafe is kind of every other month I do different kind of support where I wanna do some kind of a unique event for caregivers and introduce them to something. We had a Zentangle consultant come and teach us how to Zentangle. And it's basically like you're creating patterns. It's an abstract art, but it's very meditative. And she had given away as part of a prize this Sakura Zentangle artist tool set, it's like $20. But the thing with Zentangle is you use these little paper and you use like a micro tip pen. And so it's the little kit for that. And I like it because it's portable. You could throw it again in a self -care tote bag and pull it out just to kind of like, I need a mindful moment quick. Cause I'm a journaler, I love my journal of course, but I got that here too, the Just For You daily self -care journal, it's a prompted journal. And this is one form of meditation and doing that, but the Zentangle and an art journaling is another type of where it just gives you calm and peace. I can tell you, I felt very differently at the beginning of that session than I did at the end of the session. So something creative there. But I think too, when you're given a gift for anybody, whether it's a caregiver or care recipient, like just thinking about that person and what they naturally like and what they care about or what they maybe have mentioned to you in conversation could be something that would spark something. I was thinking, unless you know for sure they have a green thumb, don't give people a plant. They don't need something else to take care of. Yeah, I think as caregivers, right, we crave less things to take care of. The only exception I have to that would be the, I did get an AeroGarden one year, it's like for herbs. Right now I have basil, my basil is like taken off. And even if I can't use it in what I'm cooking, cause I'm not like this huge culinary chef, I learned this tip from another caregiver, Lisa Negro, where she said, she rubs it in her hands and smells the basil on her hands. I've been using it to freshen up my garbage disposal. Like I literally take some leaves off of it and put it in there to make it smell better. That's a really good idea. And I have a good idea cause I have the same issue. I have two pots with basil in it. I mentioned the other day, we needed to do a pasta dish with pesto. My husband was like, why? And he's like, oh, nevermind, I know why. Cause the plants are like big. It's pesto time. Yeah, it's like, and that's not something we normally eat a lot of anyway, cause you know, a lot of olive oil, it's not the healthiest sauce, but it is tasty. But I have been making basil mayonnaise and you basically just grind up, I think it's like half a cup of mayo and a third a cup of basil. I just do it to taste cause when I did it per the instructions, it needed a little more basil and I had a little more basil, so I threw it in there. And I am telling you, that is, that makes lunch just - Oh yeah, it's just like a little extra special and all you need is, you know, food processor or you know, maybe a blender, I don't have a blender. So I just use the food processor, grind it up and - Sounds yummy. It is really good and it's, you know, I throw just a touch of lemon juice in it just to kind of give it, you know, a little extra, what do they call it? Brightness, which that's a very strange culinary term, but yeah, it's delicious and it's, you know, you just plop in however much mayonnaise you need and then keep adding basil until it tastes the way you want it to taste, super easy. Never thought to use that. I think like little things like that, where you take something that people are doing all the time and you can maybe elevate it a little bit. So think about like, if someone's a tea drinker, you know, how could you make that special? Like, you know, tea, splurging on teas that they might not buy for themselves or the presentation of it and packaging it all together, maybe with some biscotti or something like that. Like it just like treat them, treat them to something spectacular. I also think anything pampering, like a massage gun or a silk pillowcase or a obviously nail appointment for their, you know, find out from their person where they go for those types of things and a gift certificate to that. I'm a big reader. So like reading is really fun for me, but sometimes, you know, there's lights now that you can get. I don't wanna hold a flashlight at night. I don't necessarily like reading a Kindle book all the time. So, but there's lights that you can light up and I can think of caregivers using that cause sometimes we're doing those things in very precocious types of places. What else would be good? I mean, any kind of activity that you can help encourage. I'm into pickleball recently. Have you tried to explore pickleball, Jennifer? No, there is a big pickleball teams in our community. I have very wacky vision. So I don't have depth perception. I have blazey eye and it wasn't corrected until I was four. So I could very, very much understand my mom's visual processing problems because I have similar ones myself. I don't realize, I know I don't have depth perception, but it's been this way my entire life. So, it's not abnormal for me, but I don't like balls getting hurled at me cause I'm ducking and I'm not trying to hit it back. I could probably play with the hubby, but you'd have to hit the ball gently towards me or else it's not gonna be very fun. Yeah, yeah. Well, I love it cause it's an accessible sport. It's definitely geared, it's for all ages, frankly, but something like that could be fun. Like, hey, let's, I think experiences are amazing. Let's take a pickleball lesson together. Let me take you on a hike. I got you this fun little hat and I looked up a hiking trail, something where you can really be someone's self -care cheerleader and have some kind of an experience together, a cooking class, a lesson of some sort where it's kind of a twofer, right? They're learning something and they're getting away from the caregiving world for a moment. And if you're looking for cooking classes, I did one through King Arthur Baking. It was called Pizza Perfected and it was on Zoom cause they're in freaking Vermont. So I'm not getting there anytime soon. Totally want to go, I use tons of their recipes, but yeah, it's like, I don't know how we got into just really, we really like to make our own pizza at home. We haven't done it for a while cause life, but it's not that hard, especially when somebody walks you through it and they sent you the video after, you know, like the next day. So you got to do it live and I think it was like 40 bucks. It wasn't expensive and it was at least two hours. And I have the video, it's saved in my Dropbox files and I can access it if, you know, cause there's some techniques that you don't necessarily know, you know, and I mean, just learning that technique was worth the 40 bucks, but it was a nice experience. So if you can't get out or, you know, I don't, I live in the Sierra foothills, so I don't live near things, even though I'm only an hour north of the state Capitol. It's like, there's some pros and cons to smaller air, quieter areas, depending on the day, sometimes the cons outweigh the pros, but yeah, there's, and I'm sure there's other places that do online cooking. I bet there are. And even, you know, maybe your person, your caregiver is not a person who enjoys cooking at all. And then, you know, I know for me, I used to dread the question as a sandwich generation working caregiver, like what's for dinner? And I'm like, oh, why do these people have to eat all the time? So something like that could be, you know, a subscription to like the green chef or some kind of prepared meals, or even like a Uber Eats or a DoorDash gift card for those, what are we gonna eat emergencies? I think all of that, I mean, just putting yourself in the mind of all the things, if you're a caregiver listening, like what you wish you had and what would have been helpful for you, having someone mow the lawn, like, or I'm gonna do your laundry this week. Like there's a lot of things too that even if you don't have a budget, like just showing up for someone else and doing something, taking something off of their plate would be amazing. Yeah, you could offer to help put up decorations for the holidays or you could offer to help do some deep spring cleaning, which the only reason that's coming to mind today is my golden retriever goes to the dog park regularly and the dog park has its own lake.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh "Alzheimer's" from News, Traffic and Weather
"Reports there are new allegations against Santos. Fellow Republican Congressman Max Miller of Ohio accusing Santos of illegally charging thousands to his credit card after Miller made a campaign contribution. The guy can really burn us into fraud in this. He is a pro. in Still another extraordinary turn of events, the entire House Republican leadership, including Speaker Mike Johnson, standing by the embattled congressman, knowing he was a key vote in their fragile majority. Meanwhile, former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O 'Connor, who forged a path for women in the law, championed biological compromise and educated generations of Americans about the rights and duties of citizenship, has died. court The announced her death in a statement Friday morning, signing, quote, complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer's, and a respiratory illness. ABC's Lindsay Davis has more. Sandra Day O 'Connor began her legal journey at Stanford Law School, graduating third in her class. O 'Connor's life was a lesson in balance, a wife and mother, politician and attorney, and devoted Republican. After graduation, despite her outstanding academic record, she wasn't able to get a job with a California law firm because they were reluctant to hire a woman in an effort to push back from criticism of his opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. President Ronald Reagan vowed to appoint the first woman to the Supreme Court. He chose O 'Connor. Sandra Day O 'Connor was 93 years old. Pro -Palestinian activists have apparently targeted the home of a Washington congressman. Democrat Adam Smith says his Bellevue house was tagged by quote people advocating for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza. Bellevue police spokesman Seth Tyler says the garage door of the residence was spray painted, but the targeting of the congressman's home wasn't the only incident as the Jewish Studies building on the campus of the University of Washington was also vandalized. Law enforcement is investigating both cases. Snow has been falling across the mountain passes. This really feels like a change in seasons, although there is much more snow to come. Obviously, since this is the first storm of the season. Now, on our way up here, we had a lot of traffic, a lot of semis on the road, everybody going very slow, and the driving conditions got so dicey earlier in the day, they actually had to close the interstate. Now, while the snow keeps piling up, well, drivers, they were pulling onto the shoulders of I -90 to get those chains on. This morning, about 30 trucks got stuck crossing Snoqualmie Pass as the weather just suddenly turned and those trucks started to spin out. It took two and a half hours to clear everything and reopen I -90, but it has been a tough slow go the rest of the day. We talked to one man who an got into accident. Coming down, the snow is very hard and I lost control. It's pretty rough today. I think it might have caught a lot of people off guard, but I was certainly one of them, but I'm prepared. I've got some chains with me. For the Department of Transportation, this is serious business. They are fully tasked through the weekend. They say every piece of equipment they have in the fleet has a driver to operate it. Channel 4's Joel Moreno. Two -boat service has resumed on the Edmonds -Kingston ferry route, but only through the weekend. With so many vessels out for emergency or planned maintenance,
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Mindful Gifting for Caregivers and Dementia Navigators
"Remember the joy of unwrapping a thoughtful gift that was just the right fit for you? Well, being a caregiver doesn't diminish that need, it just changes it. Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming Elizabeth Miller from the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, who brings with her an array of gift giving ideas for caregivers and those living with dementia. Our conversation zigzags through a spectrum of unique gifts, focusing on both physical items and shared experiences. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice, you can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. When I learned that despite eating as healthy as possible, we can still have undernourished brains, I was frustrated. Learning about neuro reserves, Relev8, and how it's formulated to fix this problem convinced me to give them a try. Now I know many of you are skeptical, as was I. However, I know it's working because of one simple change. My sweet tooth is gone. I didn't expect that, and it's not something other users have commented on, but here's some truth. My brain always wanted something sweet. Now fruit usually did the trick, but not always. One bad night's sleep would fire up my sugar cravings so much they were almost impossible to ignore. You ever have your brain screaming for a donut? Well, for me, those days are gone. I believe in my results so much that I'm passing on my 15 % discount to you. Try it for two or three months and see if you have a miraculous sweet tooth cure, or maybe just better focus and clarity. It's definitely worth a try. Now on with our show. Hello, hello, you guys are gonna love today because we're talking about gifts and gift giving for people with dementia. And it's a perfect day to discuss that because today is my daughter's birthday. So I would wish her a happy birthday, but she's not a listener. So what I will do is thank Elizabeth Miller from the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast for coming on and sharing her gift guide and her knowledge. So thanks for joining us today, Elizabeth. Thank you for having me, I'm excited to be here. Awesome, I know we haven't done one together. I was on your show a while ago, but you haven't been online. Yes, vice versa. Yes, I love Fading Memories and I love that it's part of the whole care network. Definitely, so. We're all part of the same family. So you've been podcasting for six years as well, right? Yep, I'm in my sixth season. I launched in November's National Family Caregivers Month. So happy National Family Caregivers Month, everybody. And that was a launch. I try to do some kind of special every year, but I think I don't really have a launch this year. Just keep on keeping on. I've been really focusing on the speaking part of my business and really trying to get out there as far as reaching different companies and organizations to scale the caregiving support. Yes, it's definitely something we need. So where should we start? Do you wanna start with gifts for caregivers or gifts for people living with dementia? Let's, I mean, I'm always one to put the caregivers first. So like - Sounds like a plan. Yeah, so I think when it comes to buying gifts for caregivers, anything is probably going to be appreciated, right? We're just so grateful that somebody has been thinking about us and has us top of mind. But there's a lot of different things you can do, I think, for a family caregiver. And of course I also like self -care focused ones because not only are you giving them a gift, but you're giving them a tool of something that can help them mitigate burnout. So anything from like stuff that they would use like every day, we just had this in the fall, we have a sister's weekend and we do this favorite things party. Have you ever heard of that? Where we decided we were gonna each bring three things. We were gonna be $25 or less. This might be a great idea for someone to do as a swap exchange for their book club or their caregiver support group or whatnot. But I brought three of the same things. We kind of presented them, they're not wraps. But I got a lot of good ideas there this year for things like we had the things to clean our glasses, which would be a good thing for, they're called peeps. They're good for caregivers and for care recipients. Anybody who's wearing sunglasses even because they get grody, right? Very practical gift constantly. And then we had things like I'm wearing it now, actually. I love this Maybelline Lifter Gloss. It's affordable, it tastes good. Not that you're eating it, but you're gonna get some in your mouth on something. Smells good, it stays on decent. So I had brought that as part of mine. And then there was some cool body scrubs and lotions from, I think it was called La La Licious. So I think anything that can help us, oh, a boom stick was another one. It was like stuff that, this would be a very handy little makeup tool for a caregiver because you can put some quick color on your face, you can use it on your lips. Like it's one of those try it anywhere type of things. That's something you could like throw in your purse or your bag and when you look in the mirror and go, oh, it kind of looks so painful. Emergency, emergency. Yeah, put it, throw it in your self care tote. So I think little things like that, everybody's got different budgets these days as far as stuff that you can use. We did this, I do a Happy Healthy Caregiver virtual cafe is kind of every other month I do different kind of support where I wanna do some kind of a unique event for caregivers and introduce them to something. We had a Zentangle consultant come and teach us how to Zentangle. And it's basically like you're creating patterns. It's an abstract art, but it's very meditative. And she had given away as part of a prize this Sakura Zentangle artist tool set, it's like $20. But the thing with Zentangle is you use these little paper and you use like a micro tip pen. And so it's the little kit for that. And I like it because it's portable. You could throw it again in a self -care tote bag and pull it out just to kind of like, I need a mindful moment quick. Cause I'm a journaler, I love my journal of course, but I got that here too, the Just For You daily self -care journal, it's a prompted journal. And this is one form of meditation and doing that, but the Zentangle and an art journaling is another type of where it just gives you calm and peace. I can tell you, I felt very differently at the beginning of that session than I did at the end of the session. So something creative there. But I think too, when you're given a gift for anybody, whether it's a caregiver or care recipient, like just thinking about that person and what they naturally like and what they care about or what they maybe have mentioned to you in conversation could be something that would spark something. I was thinking, unless you know for sure they have a green thumb, don't give people a plant. They don't need something else to take care of. Yeah, I think as caregivers, right, we crave less things to take care of. The only exception I have to that would be the, I did get an AeroGarden one year, it's like for herbs. Right now I have basil, my basil is like taken off. And even if I can't use it in what I'm cooking, cause I'm not like this huge culinary chef, I learned this tip from another caregiver, Lisa Negro, where she said, she rubs it in her hands and smells the basil on her hands. I've been using it to freshen up my garbage disposal. Like I literally take some leaves off of it and put it in there to make it smell better. That's a really good idea. And I have a good idea cause I have the same issue. I have two pots with basil in it. I mentioned the other day, we needed to do a pasta dish with pesto. My husband was like, why? And he's like, oh, nevermind, I know why. Cause the plants are like big. It's pesto time. Yeah, it's like, and that's not something we normally eat a lot of anyway, cause you know, a lot of olive oil, it's not the healthiest sauce, but it is tasty. But I have been making basil mayonnaise and you basically just grind up, I think it's like half a cup of mayo and a third a cup of basil. I just do it to taste cause when I did it per the instructions, it needed a little more basil and I had a little more basil, so I threw it in there. And I am telling you, that is, that makes lunch just - Oh yeah, it's just like a little extra special and all you need is, you know, food processor or you know, maybe a blender, I don't have a blender. So I just use the food processor, grind it up and - Sounds yummy. It is really good and it's, you know, I throw just a touch of lemon juice in it just to kind of give it, you know, a little extra, what do they call it? Brightness, which that's a very strange culinary term, but yeah, it's delicious and it's, you know, you just plop in however much mayonnaise you need and then keep adding basil until it tastes the way you want it to taste, super easy. Never thought to use that. I think like little things like that, where you take something that people are doing all the time and you can maybe elevate it a little bit. So think about like, if someone's a tea drinker, you know, how could you make that special? Like, you know, tea, splurging on teas that they might not buy for themselves or the presentation of it and packaging it all together, maybe with some biscotti or something like that. Like it just like treat them, treat them to something spectacular. I also think anything pampering, like a massage gun or a silk pillowcase or a obviously nail appointment for their, you know, find out from their person where they go for those types of things and a gift certificate to that. I'm a big reader. So like reading is really fun for me, but sometimes, you know, there's lights now that you can get. I don't wanna hold a flashlight at night. I don't necessarily like reading a Kindle book all the time. So, but there's lights that you can light up and I can think of caregivers using that cause sometimes we're doing those things in very precocious types of places.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "alzheimer" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"I can't Where your family are noticing changes, it could be Alzheimer's. Talk about seeing a doctor together. For more information, visit ALZ .org slash time to talk. A message from the Alzheimer's Association and the Ad Council. information, and on top of that, when they resell your car, they will share the profit with you 50 50 shop around compare for yourself. It always comes down to this. If Wayscar Ford can pay you the same or more for your vehicle,
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
A highlight from Liver Function, Bile Flow, Gut Problems, Itchiness, and Inflammation with Dr Jay Davidson
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Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
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"Are you struggling on navigating the complexities of specific dementia behaviors? Well, join me and my guest, Krista Montague, the brain behind Dementia's Success Path, as we unravel this tangled issue. Krista, with her riches of experience in dementia care, shines a light on the intricacies of caring for dementia patients. From handling physically active patients to dealing with violence in caregiving, we delve into the importance of balancing physical and emotional needs, and how fostering one -on -one relationships with recreation therapists or activity directors can revolutionize patient care. Welcome to Fading Memories, the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had the start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice, you can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. When I learned that despite eating as healthy as possible, we can still have undernourished brains, I was frustrated. Learning about neuro -reserves, Relev8, and how it's formulated to fix this problem convinced me to give them a try. Now I know many of you are skeptical, as was I, however, I know it's working because of one simple change, my sweet tooth is gone. I didn't expect that, and it's not something other users have commented on, but here's some truth. 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So why don't you introduce yourself, tell us about your company, maybe your background with caring for somebody with dementia, and then we'll dive right into the topic. Yeah, absolutely. So I run a platform and a business called Dementia Success Path. The reason I started it is when I was very first getting started with my career, I ended up working in Jerry Psych. And that's where you run into the most challenging of dementia behaviors. That's why they're there at the hospital and my job there as an activity therapist was to provide natural intervention. So what to say and what to do to get them to come to a certain baseline in order for the doctors that work there to really be able to correctly prescribe medication. So anyways, that is how I got into the space. And over the course of many, many years, I cared for thousands of dementia patients with challenging behaviors. Thus, now I help caregivers on the Internet with said challenging behaviors now. So that's that's a little bit about me and my background. Awesome. While you were talking, I remembered a different scenario, so I hope I'm not going to throw this out of left field because this was a really challenging behavior. And I want to keep it as anonymized as possible. So a resident who was very tall, who had been a what do they call like a endurance athlete, did those like endurance marathons for people who are not watching the YouTube video. This is a very I don't want to do that kind of face. And he got very agitated if he couldn't get a hold of his wife on the phone and she was out of cell reception and he got so agitated, he pushed over another resident who broke a hip. We all know what happens when older people break hips. And this was an issue she had with him. It's just like he had obviously greater than average. What is the word? Oh, it's Monday and my brain's not going to work. He just had a ton of energy and he needed people to like take him running or he needed a way of getting rid of the energy. But he was out of stage of his dementia that taking him out wasn't necessarily safe for himself or others. So just off the top of your head, what do you think you would do with that? Just we're going to start off with the hard question first. Yeah, well, so I guess I'd be curious to figure out some of some of the why behind that, because ultimately behavior is just communication. The main thing with most of the dementias, whether it be Alzheimer's or from a temporal or blue body or whatever, is that it takes away language if you stick with the disease process long enough. So over time, those behaviors become a way for them to say, hey, something emotionally or physically with me isn't right. And I can't tell you any other way than maybe to shove this over or something like that. So it sounds like a couple of things are there, which is he has a physical need of moving around if that's been a part of his life and that's not being that that could definitely be part of it. The other part is maybe an emotional need that's not being met, which is he's wanting to get a hold of his safe person, the person who he feels gets him and can help orient him. And it's not happening. And I can just feel so overwhelming when you've lost control of everything else in your life with dementia. So as far as tackling those issues, I usually like to start with the physical issue first before I tackle the emotional one. So I understand it could definitely be challenging to get them to maybe run around the block, but I know where I happen to work, we had a pretty substantial backyard area, a garden area that people could walk around or even like a little mini trampoline event. That'd actually be a great idea if you can't move anywhere and he's like, there's nothing physically wrong. He has no mobility issues going on. Just have him bounce on that trampoline and just count it out, like almost treat it like a workout he's having like he might have had in sports or something like that, or maybe run laps a around few times or make it like some type of competition, like he's beating himself with it. So there's all kinds of ways that you can help productively put that energy towards something where it's safer. That was a lot of my job is figuring out how I could safely get these folks needs met so that if things continue to be an issue that then the doctor would come in with, say, like your Ativan or your Seroquel or, you know, whatever, things like that, it's a delicate balance trying if you're a psychiatrist that specializes in geriatrics to really get that right. And he really depended on us trying everything before he gets the medications. We're like, OK, so roughly we probably need this amount. But I was so I'll go there first with getting this physical needs. If he has a lot of energy and he just needs it met, there's there's always a safe way to get it done. It just takes a little bit of creativity and knowing a little bit about his life and his background and what would make the most sense for him. So all that's very important. And then beyond that, the emotional need could be maybe he feels like there isn't anybody else that just sits and talks to him. And I know it's challenging facilities. I get it. I worked in a facility, but at the same point in time, that's really where your let's just say your recreation therapist, your activity director can really be helpful with that. Chances are maybe he could like wall that person's activity planning or something like that could be sitting next to to her him or whatever and help him with these ideas and really building that one on one relationship so that it's not such a desperate bid for that person. You know, ultimately, there's always there's always something you can do. But I hear you. There's always going to be challenges when you're looking at an institutional place with staffing, training, all that type of stuff. But, you know, every single person's different. And it was it was rare when there was ever a person where I'm just like, no, we can't we can't help them. But it was it was very, very, very rare that that would ever be a situation that we find ourselves in. I'm wondering if they actually had gone to a geriatric psychiatrist. I'm thinking no, but I didn't know everything about their situation, obviously. Sure. That probably would have been a really good solution because he'd been in one memory care community and they just I'm not sure they tried very hard. That one used to be a mile down the hill from my home and there was a reason my mom wasn't there. And the one my mom was at, he had been moved there. So the whole incident with the shoving was in the person who got shoved was the parent of a client of my husband. So it was like, it was all the dramas. Yeah, it resolved. It resolved pretty well. I mean, there wasn't lawsuits or everybody was level headed and came to some some agreements that were positive. So that was good because I was like, oh, God, we don't. We're like, do we really need to get lawyers involved? Because, you know, this is just a really ugly situation. But I question whether whether they had a psychiatrist because that might have helped because they did have a really beautiful outside courtyard. I don't know that it would have been enough space. I mean, it was basically the size of an Olympic pool, so he could have run down and back and around. But I'm wondering if he would have felt like like a hamster on a wheel, just kind of going in a circle. But I like the trampoline idea. It depends on the context you're putting it in. It really does. If you're really treating it like, hey, this is, you know, a workout that we're doing together, like a training workout, if he was a big sports guy, then it could make sense for him. It just depends. As far as, I'd say it's unlikely the facility had one. And the reason being is in the place that I worked at, it's a hospital, so it was meant to be short term and that's usually how it goes. Oftentimes we see, rightly so, medication being a very last resort because it could take someone like him who is nothing's physically wrong with him. He's extremely physically active and it could mess with his balance and make it so he becomes a fall risk. So it's almost like you're borrowing from Peter to pay Paul when you're introducing medications. Oftentimes the folks that come to our hospital, they were violent, like they were spitting, they were fighting, hitting people, danger to themselves or others. Like it was very, very extreme situations where they'd be like, OK, like the drugs are like the very last resort to managing this. And I can understand in, you know, memory care or skilled nursing or something like that, it's challenging to have somebody so physically strong around with a bunch of frail people around, for sure. He certainly had quite a few of those. Yeah, he's really tall and then none of the caregivers, most of them, like 99 % of them were women and they weren't, none of them were more than average height. Most of us were pretty, yeah, we're talking like five foot two to five, six or seven at best. So it's not like they had like big, tall, you know, burly women to control him, which, you know, physically controlling him isn't really in the options either. But yeah, it was just, it was one of those situations where it's like, you know, his care partner was just at her wit's end and she was out of cell range because she was doing something for herself and their religious community. And so the fact that she freaked out that he couldn't get ahold of her was really unfortunate. But, you know, and I'm hoping that they learned something, you know, like all of this happened in like 2019 and then we had the pandemic and my mom passed away. It was like, oh, like, it was just, it was like a whole lot happened in a couple of years. But you were talking about violence. And so now we're going to shift back to mom, my mom. And the more we, so we talked a little bit about this, the more help she physically needed. Now, my mom walked fine with no AIDS. She had nothing physically wrong with her either. She had just had Alzheimer's for nearly 20 years. The more help she needed, the nastier she got. She didn't want people to help her. She didn't think she needed help. And if you pressed the wrong way, she literally scratched people and drew blood. So a little bit violent. They were always so surprised because like, oh, she's so easy going. I'm like, you're not talking about my mother. My mother was never easy going. She was, she was a very lovely, nice lady. Did lots of things for the community, loved her family and all that. But don't piss her off because that was a bad idea. And it did not help after Alzheimer's if you pissed her off. So I know we're kind of going back to lack of training, lack of time, lack of staff, which, you know, is actually has gotten worse since my mom passed away. But they never seem to be very good at diffusing the anger that came up kind of quickly. And it was always, it always made me feel so bad when she's, when she drew blood on the gal that took care of her. Because that gal put up with way too much garbage. So it's, go ahead. I was going to say, when you've got somebody who doesn't think they need help, that was the worst with my mom. It's like, you know, and I actually experienced it. We'd come back from, I always took her out. We went and watched kids in the park or whatever. This was what gave her the most joy. And we came back, she needed to use the restroom and she was, you know, she was still fairly continent, but she needed depends, just in case kind of thing. And as we all have happened, you know, her toe gets caught in the elastic and she's grunting and groaning and pissing and moaning, trying to pull the, first off, she crossed her legs and then tried to pull up the, you know, the incontinence underwear. And I'm like, I know exactly what's going to happen if I help her because she's going to get angry at me. And so I let her fuss and fume for a few minutes and I thought, this is ridiculous. And I went in and I said, oh, you just have your toe caught. That happens to me all the time. And I like grimaced and I bent over and I unhooked her toe and I literally backed up and stood up as quick as I could. Thankfully, I did not get smacked. That was what I was expecting. And I left the bathroom. I left her to do the rest of her stuff. She had her clothes back on. She comes back in her room, absolutely spitting mad. And I'm like, you know, this is ridiculous. It's not like I, I didn't even touch her. All I did was unhook the elastic from her toe, which, you know, if she didn't have Alzheimer's, she would have understood that that was the problem. But she was so mad. She was like, right, right, right, people come here. And she stomped out of her room and I thought, okay, well, I guess I'm going to go home now. And she made a circle around. The residents came back in her room. She goes, oh, hi, what are you doing here? I was like, oh, crap. Now we can start the visit all over again. Like, should have left a minute and a half ago. Oh, no. Oh, man. Yeah. So, you know, it's funny. I was actually having this discussion recently. I don't know if you've heard of Dan Salinger. He's pretty big on TikTok, like a really big caregiver on TikTok. I was just interviewing him on my Instagram. And we were talking a little bit about really how memories aren't quite as straightforward as a lot of people initially think. Something I really noticed with a lot of people with dementia, like all kinds of dementia, is that while the dementia stole the information aspect of their memories, and memories are really both comprised of both emotions and information. So you notice that a lot of the emotions behind their experiences would really linger. So, for example, if I'm sure if mom like so my thought when you're talking about mom is it's possible, maybe somebody else pissed her off earlier in the day, and she didn't necessarily hang on to the information of what made her mad earlier, but she was maybe hanging on to the emotion from it. And it's possible that maybe the her toe getting stuck in you helping her. She's like, no one respects me like this is just like the fifth thing that someone's disrespecting me with. And now my daughter's doing it to me like gosh darn it. For emotionally, her it feels like this is I'm just so tired of not having any control over my life, or I'm just so tired of like people telling me what to do all the time, talking to me like I'm a little kid, like just all those are very valid feelings of anger. But since the information gets like poof out of their brains, all it looks like is, wow, they're really overreacting to that being stuck in their pant leg. So sometimes it's not always the easiest to try to discern like, was I the fifth thing that pissed her off? Because she probably won't be able to tell you. But anyways, how I guess Dan and I came through that is he noticed that like maybe when after he got his dad to shower and his dad is mad, the anger would just kind of linger for a few hours afterwards, even when he completely forgotten he even had a shower. So it's just so, yeah, it's so interesting how all that works. It could be both helpful and unhelpful simultaneously as far as them forgetting things or the emotions lingering. So anyways, those are the thoughts I've had. The lack of control, something that she had. So she was the oldest of four kids. And so, you know, she was always responsible for the younger siblings. And I mean, I'm the oldest of two, so I can relate to that. My dad wasn't the easiest person. He, you know, he worked. My mom took care of my sister and I, and he kind of kept control of things. And whenever she wanted to do something, like if she wanted to repaint a room in the house, she'd think about it. She wouldn't talk to anybody, but she'd think about it. And then she would announce, tada, I'm going to do this. It sounded like, literally like it came out of the blue and I knew that it didn't because I think about things and then say, I think we should do X, Y, Z. Like our closet door, it's irritating. And it's like, we're going to put a barn door on here. So I talk about it, then I research it, then I share the research. So I'm not like, bam, we're going to do this. And it sounds coming out of the blue. So I don't think she felt like she had a lot of control, like her whole life since she was a teenager, probably, or maybe younger. Um, you know, like both my grandparents worked. So my, you know, both my uncles were kind of rowdy. She had the rowdy cousin that wound up. So yeah, I don't think she felt like she had a lot of control. So even if it wasn't the fifth thing that pissed her off, even if it was only the second or the third thing that day, yeah, I can totally see where that would have. That would have been an issue. So I've learned so much since she's passed away. It's like, dang, I really wish I'd known this five years ago. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's interesting. I find that anytime, regardless if they have dementia or not, if there's like a huge reaction that feels disproportionate to the situation you're in, chances are, it's probably not about you. It's probably about a bunch of other stuff. And it's very much the same with our folks with dementia. And that's usually the fastest way I can get them calmed down from anger is I would say it sounds like there's just a lot of things that are frustrating you here. Let's just go outside and you can just tell me what's on your heart. And usually I was right. There's usually like six different things that were all pretty valid sounding that was pissing them off. And it was really relieving for a lot of them to have someone actually really sit down and listen to them. And it was a very unique position to be in as far as the facility goes. To actually be the person who had a little bit more time to spend with, with my folks to really understand where they were coming from a little bit more. I was really special. And it's really unfortunate because COVID, many of the other things COVID has taken out has also taken out this particular facility as well, which it stinks. But, you know, COVID did a number on all of it and everything on everybody on all the things. I guess I want to circle back real quick when we were talking about the staff and the training and things like that. Something I notice oftentimes just because of maybe because it's just severely underpaid they're asking their folks to do is you and oftentimes you'll find culturally people who maybe came from more of like an authoritarian type parenting background and they see these adults who are acting like children in their eyes. So they almost instinctively go back to like this authoritarian style parenting to these adults. And it just doesn't work. It just it just doesn't work. And that's why, you know, the training is so, so important. But now it's just rough when you live in a country where everything is all about the dollar. Yeah, my so where my mom lived, my husband's a real estate broker and we were talking about this exact topic because the people that did the hands -on carrying on my mom did not get paid worth beans because some of them worked at Starbucks for eight hours and then went and dealt with these, you know, these people with dementias. And like I could barely deal with my mom for two or three hours at a time much. And that was on top of what all the other stuff I did, but I didn't work at Starbucks for eight hours and then come deal with my mom for eight hours. Like, nope, that was outside my abilities. So I always, you know, tried really hard to, like, make their life easier. But the gal that my mom was always drawing blood on, she just worked at the community and she was freaking poor at it, you know. And I had a really good relationship with the executive director. If he was making big bucks, he wasn't spending it. He had an older model Honda Accord. You know, he wore polo shirts and khaki pants, you know, not dissing pennies. I shopped there, but that's kind of where he looked like he shopped. You know, he wasn't wearing suits. And I always, I thought, I don't know how you do this job because you've got the staff to deal with. You've got the residents to deal with. You've got the residents' families to deal with. Like, there are too many people to try to make happy. There's not enough money for you, but somebody's making money. And so I had my husband, like, pull up the property taxes and when the building was built and we, like, kind of assessed, like, their expenses. And it was like, God, I don't know how anybody's making money doing this. And it was expensive. We paid $5 ,600 a month for my mom. And then she moved in March 2017. So every March she was reassessed. The memory care director was very kind. Always, you know, when you kind of got somebody who's in a range of needs, always kind of scaled it to the lower end. And my mom fell, broke her leg, was bed -bound, wheelchair -bound, and she still skewed everything, like, as minimal as she could. And the fee was going from $5 ,600 to $7 ,200. And I've said this a lot. I think my mom had a moment of clarity where she realized there was this COVID thing going on. You know, people were not allowed to come in to the community. We weren't allowed to take them out to go watch kids in the park. She was going to need this wheelchair. The fee was going to, oh, forget it. I'm out. I really seriously think she had that moment because she died March 31st. The new fee was supposed to take place April 1st. So she saved us some money. Yeah. I was like, man, you've done that just right, honey. I mean, and it just, yeah, it just seemed like there just had to have been a moment of clarity. So yeah, it was crazy times. We were very blessed. They let us come in. I saw her the day before she passed away. They called me on the 31st and said, come now. She passed away before we got there. But literally, so this is March 31st, 2020. We're still in the initial stages of quarantine, you know, two weeks to flatten the curve. All that, if you guys remember back then, it's like, I almost forgot that was the beginning of the year, basically sitting at home. No, we were so innocent back then. Yeah, we thought we were doing really good sitting at home, baking sourdough bread. Oh, I was most certainly not doing that at that time. I was working with the ventilation staff. Oh, wow. Oh, so yeah, nope. I was doing my same stuff, but there was 10 of us. So there was my husband and I, my daughter, son -in -law, my sister, her kids and husband, and one, my mom's sister and one brother. And my aunt wore a mask. So this was a little bit before masking because my aunt took care of my grandmother, who had vascular dementia, lived on grandma's social security. So when my grandmother passed away, I don't understand why my family made this choice. Still don't. Well, obviously when my grandmother passed away, my aunt didn't have a career or money. So my aunt lives in subsidized senior housing and she has her own mental health struggles. She obviously knew that maybe wearing a mask was a good idea. And again, great relationship with the executive director, but that man looked like he was about to have a complete stroke because literally there's 10 of us standing outside my mom's room, including two kids. My niece was a teenager and my nephew was almost a teenager. And he never basically said, get the hell out. But it was very obvious on his face. That's what he wanted to say. But a lot of people didn't get to see their loved ones at all. So I felt really blessed and that must've been really, really hard for them.
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Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Vibrant Living: Brain Health Strategies Matter Even in Memory Care
"Are you struggling on navigating the complexities of specific dementia behaviors? Well, join me and my guest, Krista Montague, the brain behind Dementia's Success Path, as we unravel this tangled issue. Krista, with her riches of experience in dementia care, shines a light on the intricacies of caring for dementia patients. From handling physically active patients to dealing with violence in caregiving, we delve into the importance of balancing physical and emotional needs, and how fostering one -on -one relationships with recreation therapists or activity directors can revolutionize patient care. Welcome to Fading Memories, the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had the start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice, you can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. When I learned that despite eating as healthy as possible, we can still have undernourished brains, I was frustrated. Learning about neuro -reserves, Relev8, and how it's formulated to fix this problem convinced me to give them a try. Now I know many of you are skeptical, as was I, however, I know it's working because of one simple change, my sweet tooth is gone. I didn't expect that, and it's not something other users have commented on, but here's some truth. My brain always wanted something sweet. Now fruit usually did the trick, but not always. One bad night's sleep would fire up my sugar cravings so much they were almost impossible to ignore. You ever have your brain screaming for a donut? Well, for me, those days are gone. I believe in my results so much that I'm passing on my 15 % discount to you. Try it for two or three months and see if you have a miraculous sweet tooth cure, or maybe just better focus and clarity. It's worth definitely a try. Now on with our show. Welcome back, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. I know you're going to love today's episode. With me is Krista Montague. We are talking about challenging dementia behaviors. And for those of you who know, who have listened long enough, you know, I had a few of those with my mom, so we'll be talking about those and others. So thanks for joining me, Krista. Oh, thanks for having me. So why don't you introduce yourself, tell us about your company, maybe your background with caring for somebody with dementia, and then we'll dive right into the topic. Yeah, absolutely. So I run a platform and a business called Dementia Success Path. The reason I started it is when I was very first getting started with my career, I ended up working in Jerry Psych. And that's where you run into the most challenging of dementia behaviors. That's why they're there at the hospital and my job there as an activity therapist was to provide natural intervention. So what to say and what to do to get them to come to a certain baseline in order for the doctors that work there to really be able to correctly prescribe medication. So anyways, that is how I got into the space. And over the course of many, many years, I cared for thousands of dementia patients with challenging behaviors. Thus, now I help caregivers on the Internet with said challenging behaviors now. So that's that's a little bit about me and my background. Awesome. While you were talking, I remembered a different scenario, so I hope I'm not going to throw this out of left field because this was a really challenging behavior. And I want to keep it as anonymized as possible. So a resident who was very tall, who had been a what do they call like a endurance athlete, did those like endurance marathons for people who are not watching the YouTube video. This is a very I don't want to do that kind of face. And he got very agitated if he couldn't get a hold of his wife on the phone and she was out of cell reception and he got so agitated, he pushed over another resident who broke a hip. We all know what happens when older people break hips. And this was an issue she had with him. It's just like he had obviously greater than average. What is the word? Oh, it's Monday and my brain's not going to work. He just had a ton of energy and he needed people to like take him running or he needed a way of getting rid of the energy. But he was out of stage of his dementia that taking him out wasn't necessarily safe for himself or others. So just off the top of your head, what do you think you would do with that? Just we're going to start off with the hard question first. Yeah, well, so I guess I'd be curious to figure out some of some of the why behind that, because ultimately behavior is just communication. The main thing with most of the dementias, whether it be Alzheimer's or from a temporal or blue body or whatever, is that it takes away language if you stick with the disease process long enough. So over time, those behaviors become a way for them to say, hey, something emotionally or physically with me isn't right. And I can't tell you any other way than maybe to shove this over or something like that. So it sounds like a couple of things are there, which is he has a physical need of moving around if that's been a part of his life and that's not being that that could definitely be part of it. The other part is maybe an emotional need that's not being met, which is he's wanting to get a hold of his safe person, the person who he feels gets him and can help orient him. And it's not happening. And I can just feel so overwhelming when you've lost control of everything else in your life with dementia. So as far as tackling those issues, I usually like to start with the physical issue first before I tackle the emotional one. So I understand it could definitely be challenging to get them to maybe run around the block, but I know where I happen to work, we had a pretty substantial backyard area, a garden area that people could walk around or even like a little mini trampoline event. That'd actually be a great idea if you can't move anywhere and he's like, there's nothing physically wrong. He has no mobility issues going on. Just have him bounce on that trampoline and just count it out, like almost treat it like a workout he's having like he might have had in sports or something like that, or maybe run laps a around few times or make it like some type of competition, like he's beating himself with it. So there's all kinds of ways that you can help productively put that energy towards something where it's safer. That was a lot of my job is figuring out how I could safely get these folks needs met so that if things continue to be an issue that then the doctor would come in with, say, like your Ativan or your Seroquel or, you know, whatever, things like that, it's a delicate balance trying if you're a psychiatrist that specializes in geriatrics to really get that right. And he really depended on us trying everything before he gets the medications. We're like, OK, so roughly we probably need this amount. But I was so I'll go there first with getting this physical needs. If he has a lot of energy and he just needs it met, there's there's always a safe way to get it done. It just takes a little bit of creativity and knowing a little bit about his life and his background and what would make the most sense for him. So all that's very important. And then beyond that, the emotional need could be maybe he feels like there isn't anybody else that just sits and talks to him. And I know it's challenging facilities. I get it. I worked in a facility, but at the same point in time, that's really where your let's just say your recreation therapist, your activity director can really be helpful with that. Chances are maybe he could like wall that person's activity planning or something like that could be sitting next to to her him or whatever and help him with these ideas and really building that one on one relationship so that it's not such a desperate bid for that person. You know, ultimately, there's always there's always something you can do. But I hear you. There's always going to be challenges when you're looking at an institutional place with staffing, training, all that type of stuff. But, you know, every single person's different. And it was it was rare when there was ever a person where I'm just like, no, we can't we can't help them. But it was it was very, very, very rare that that would ever be a situation that we find ourselves in. I'm wondering if they actually had gone to a geriatric psychiatrist. I'm thinking no, but I didn't know everything about their situation, obviously. Sure. That probably would have been a really good solution because he'd been in one memory care community and they just I'm not sure they tried very hard. That one used to be a mile down the hill from my home and there was a reason my mom wasn't there. And the one my mom was at, he had been moved there. So the whole incident with the shoving was in the person who got shoved was the parent of a client of my husband. So it was like, it was all the dramas. Yeah, it resolved. It resolved pretty well. I mean, there wasn't lawsuits or everybody was level headed and came to some some agreements that were positive. So that was good because I was like, oh, God, we don't. We're like, do we really need to get lawyers involved? Because, you know, this is just a really ugly situation. But I question whether whether they had a psychiatrist because that might have helped because they did have a really beautiful outside courtyard. I don't know that it would have been enough space. I mean, it was basically the size of an Olympic pool, so he could have run down and back and around. But I'm wondering if he would have felt like like a hamster on a wheel, just kind of going in a circle. But I like the trampoline idea. It depends on the context you're putting it in. It really does. If you're really treating it like, hey, this is, you know, a workout that we're doing together, like a training workout, if he was a big sports guy, then it could make sense for him. It just depends. As far as, I'd say it's unlikely the facility had one. And the reason being is in the place that I worked at, it's a hospital, so it was meant to be short term and that's usually how it goes. Oftentimes we see, rightly so, medication being a very last resort because it could take someone like him who is nothing's physically wrong with him. He's extremely physically active and it could mess with his balance and make it so he becomes a fall risk. So it's almost like you're borrowing from Peter to pay Paul when you're introducing medications. Oftentimes the folks that come to our hospital, they were violent, like they were spitting, they were fighting, hitting people, danger to themselves or others. Like it was very, very extreme situations where they'd be like, OK, like the drugs are like the very last resort to managing this. And I can understand in, you know, memory care or skilled nursing or something like that, it's challenging to have somebody so physically strong around with a bunch of frail people around, for sure. He certainly had quite a few of those. Yeah, he's really tall and then none of the caregivers, most of them, like 99 % of them were women and they weren't, none of them were more than average height. Most of us were pretty, yeah, we're talking like five foot two to five, six or seven at best. So it's not like they had like big, tall, you know, burly women to control him, which, you know, physically controlling him isn't really in the options either. But yeah, it was just, it was one of those situations where it's like, you know, his care partner was just at her wit's end and she was out of cell range because she was doing something for herself and their religious community. And so the fact that she freaked out that he couldn't get ahold of her was really unfortunate. But, you know, and I'm hoping that they learned something, you know, like all of this happened in like 2019 and then we had the pandemic and my mom passed away. It was like, oh, like, it was just, it was like a whole lot happened in a couple of years. But you were talking about violence. And so now we're going to shift back to mom, my mom. And the more we, so we talked a little bit about this, the more help she physically needed. Now, my mom walked fine with no AIDS. She had nothing physically wrong with her either. She had just had Alzheimer's for nearly 20 years. The more help she needed, the nastier she got. She didn't want people to help her. She didn't think she needed help. And if you pressed the wrong way, she literally scratched people and drew blood. So a little bit violent. They were always so surprised because like, oh, she's so easy going. I'm like, you're not talking about my mother. My mother was never easy going. She was, she was a very lovely, nice lady. Did lots of things for the community, loved her family and all that. But don't piss her off because that was a bad idea. And it did not help after Alzheimer's if you pissed her off. So I know we're kind of going back to lack of training, lack of time, lack of staff, which, you know, is actually has gotten worse since my mom passed away. But they never seem to be very good at diffusing the anger that came up kind of quickly. And it was always, it always made me feel so bad when she's, when she drew blood on the gal that took care of her. Because that gal put up with way too much garbage. So it's, go ahead. I was going to say, when you've got somebody who doesn't think they need help, that was the worst with my mom. It's like, you know, and I actually experienced it. We'd come back from, I always took her out. We went and watched kids in the park or whatever. This was what gave her the most joy. And we came back, she needed to use the restroom and she was, you know, she was still fairly continent, but she needed depends, just in case kind of thing. And as we all have happened, you know, her toe gets caught in the elastic and she's grunting and groaning and pissing and moaning, trying to pull the, first off, she crossed her legs and then tried to pull up the, you know, the incontinence underwear. And I'm like, I know exactly what's going to happen if I help her because she's going to get angry at me. And so I let her fuss and fume for a few minutes and I thought, this is ridiculous. And I went in and I said, oh, you just have your toe caught. That happens to me all the time. And I like grimaced and I bent over and I unhooked her toe and I literally backed up and stood up as quick as I could. Thankfully, I did not get smacked. That was what I was expecting. And I left the bathroom. I left her to do the rest of her stuff. She had her clothes back on. She comes back in her room, absolutely spitting mad. And I'm like, you know, this is ridiculous. It's not like I, I didn't even touch her. All I did was unhook the elastic from her toe, which, you know, if she didn't have Alzheimer's, she would have understood that that was the problem. But she was so mad. She was like, right, right, right, people come here. And she stomped out of her room and I thought, okay, well, I guess I'm going to go home now. And she made a circle around. The residents came back in her room. She goes, oh, hi, what are you doing here? I was like, oh, crap. Now we can start the visit all over again. Like, should have left a minute and a half ago. Oh, no. Oh, man. Yeah. So, you know, it's funny. I was actually having this discussion recently. I don't know if you've heard of Dan Salinger. He's pretty big on TikTok, like a really big caregiver on TikTok. I was just interviewing him on my Instagram. And we were talking a little bit about really how memories aren't quite as straightforward as a lot of people initially think. Something I really noticed with a lot of people with dementia, like all kinds of dementia, is that while the dementia stole the information aspect of their memories, and memories are really both comprised of both emotions and information. So you notice that a lot of the emotions behind their experiences would really linger. So, for example, if I'm sure if mom like so my thought when you're talking about mom is it's possible, maybe somebody else pissed her off earlier in the day, and she didn't necessarily hang on to the information of what made her mad earlier, but she was maybe hanging on to the emotion from it. And it's possible that maybe the her toe getting stuck in you helping her. She's like, no one respects me like this is just like the fifth thing that someone's disrespecting me with. And now my daughter's doing it to me like gosh darn it. For emotionally, her it feels like this is I'm just so tired of not having any control over my life, or I'm just so tired of like people telling me what to do all the time, talking to me like I'm a little kid, like just all those are very valid feelings of anger. But since the information gets like poof out of their brains, all it looks like is, wow, they're really overreacting to that being stuck in their pant leg. So sometimes it's not always the easiest to try to discern like, was I the fifth thing that pissed her off? Because she probably won't be able to tell you. But anyways, how I guess Dan and I came through that is he noticed that like maybe when after he got his dad to shower and his dad is mad, the anger would just kind of linger for a few hours afterwards, even when he completely forgotten he even had a shower. So it's just so, yeah, it's so interesting how all that works. It could be both helpful and unhelpful simultaneously as far as them forgetting things or the emotions lingering. So anyways, those are the thoughts I've had. The lack of control, something that she had. So she was the oldest of four kids. And so, you know, she was always responsible for the younger siblings. And I mean, I'm the oldest of two, so I can relate to that. My dad wasn't the easiest person. He, you know, he worked. My mom took care of my sister and I, and he kind of kept control of things. And whenever she wanted to do something, like if she wanted to repaint a room in the house, she'd think about it. She wouldn't talk to anybody, but she'd think about it. And then she would announce, tada, I'm going to do this. It sounded like, literally like it came out of the blue and I knew that it didn't because I think about things and then say, I think we should do X, Y, Z. Like our closet door, it's irritating. And it's like, we're going to put a barn door on here. So I talk about it, then I research it, then I share the research. So I'm not like, bam, we're going to do this. And it sounds coming out of the blue. So I don't think she felt like she had a lot of control, like her whole life since she was a teenager, probably, or maybe younger. Um, you know, like both my grandparents worked. So my, you know, both my uncles were kind of rowdy.
Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 126 - Cerebrum DAO - Decentralized funding of brain health research
"I view it as a way to create a global network of brain health enthusiasts and those affected by neurodegenerative diseases to kind of change the game. We need to do things differently than we have in the past. And I think tokens and crypto networks are just absolutely fascinating ways when properly designed to coordinate people, talent really, and capital globally to go after common missions. Welcome to the Crypto Altruism Podcast, the podcast dedicated to elevating the stories of those using Web3 for good. I'm your host Drew Simon from CryptoAltruism .org. Now, before we get started, a quick disclaimer. While we may discuss specific Web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice and please make sure to do your own research on investment opportunities or any opportunity, including its legality. And now, let's get on to the show. Welcome and thanks so much for joining. Brain health and neurodegeneration are some of the most pressing medical challenges of our time. Neurodegenerative disease impacts millions every year and at this time lacks sufficient therapeutic treatments, especially for a problem of this magnitude. As a society, we need to rethink how we approach the most pressing scientific questions, including how we organize capital and talent to address them and fuel the next wave of scientific discovery. To dive into this, I'm excited to welcome Brian Magierski, founder of Cerebrum Tao, an open global community collectively sourcing, brainstorming, and funding solutions to advance brain health and prevent neurodegeneration. We discuss how Web3 tools can help advance vital brain health research, using Tao architecture to coordinate capital and the community, how the decentralized science movement can empower scientists and much more. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming Brian to the Crypto Altruism podcast. Brian, thank you so much for being here today on the Crypto Altruism podcast. It is a pleasure to have you. How are you doing today? I'm doing well, Drew. Thanks. Excited to be here. Yeah, a lot's going on with you right now, I understand. And with Cerebrum Tao, which I'm excited to talk about, you've been traveling a lot. I saw you're at D -Cyberlin. So I'm excited to dive in all that. But before we get there, I want to hear your story. Do you mind just giving a little bit of an introduction to yourself and what your aha moment was that got you excited about Crypto and Web3 in the beginning? Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, Brian Magierski. I've been a serial entrepreneur for over 20 years now, mostly out of Austin, Texas, and started three different companies, mostly in the enterprise software B2B space, Web1, Web2, and mobile apps, serving enterprises and helping them be more efficient. And now just really full on and been obsessed for the past three, four years, based out of Zurich, Switzerland, and focused on brain health, pretty broadly, and a number of reasons for that, which we can get into. I've been in and out of crypto. It's funny, I got into crypto back in 2014. A friend of mine, a fellow entrepreneur, was into Bitcoin at the time. And so we just started brainstorming that. So I played around with it in 2014, was intrigued, but couldn't figure out what to do with Bitcoin. So I took a pause, and I ended up coming back into it around 2017, when Ethereum was kind of gaining momentum, and you could program it. And I was like, Okay, this is more interesting. Now you can actually build something on this. And dug in, went through the ICO phase. And then I had a fork in the road that got me obsessed about focusing on brain health. And ever since then, I've been looking at how do I leverage crypto networks and crypto assets in a way that can solve the problems I'm trying to solve in the brain health field. Yeah, yeah, definitely. And we'll dive into that, for sure, in terms of the story behind your interest in brain health, and why the focus on this fascinating area. But before you do that, do you mind giving listeners just a high -level overview of the mission of CerebrumDAO? Yeah, absolutely. So CerebrumDAO is on a mission to accelerate solutions and cures to neurodegeneration and overall brain health, advancing brain health. I view it as a way to create a global network of brain health enthusiasts and those affected by neurodegenerative diseases to kind of change the game. And by changing the game, it's a recognition of the fact that neurodegeneration and dementia in particular is the only major disease category that has had no effective FDA -approved therapeutic until recently, and now has had no FDA -approved therapeutic until recently, and still has no effective FDA -approved therapeutic. And we have an epidemic. We have an epidemic that's growing. We're going to quadruple the number of people with Alzheimer's dementia by 2050. It's affecting tens of millions of people, and it's unfortunately a disease that affects an entire family and friend network when it happens. And we need to do things differently than we have in the past, and I think tokens and crypto networks are just absolutely fascinating ways when properly designed to coordinate people, talent really, and capital globally to go after common missions. And this is a global mission. It affects all of us, and I think that that's what we can do with this. So that is our mission. It's pretty ambitious, and it's pretty big, but it's necessary. Yeah, yeah, definitely. For sure. Well, thank you for sharing that. You shared some information on the challenges that exist around brain health and longevity and the broad impacts that it has on just so many people, right? It's such a wide -reaching challenge faced by many, and I want to know about your why now. Why the focus on this area? Obviously, there's the importance of it worldwide. It's a really big challenge that's affecting every nation, every family probably in one way or another, but why the focus on brain health and longevity? Why is this important to you? Yeah, it started about four years ago for me, and it's tied to my youngest daughter, and she's now 12, at the time eight, and she was born 12 years ago with Down syndrome. And what we recognized, my wife and I recognized when she was born, as we looked at Down syndrome and tried to prepare for what we need to do to support her in her life, one of the things that jumped out at me was people with Down syndrome are 100 % susceptible to early onset Alzheimer's disease. And so you have a situation with people with Down syndrome that they're living longer lives now, so many of the life expectancy kind of extends into late 50s into the 60s now for people with Down syndrome. But what we've discovered is that early onset Alzheimer's is what's killing them, and it's an incurable condition, and they're all going to get it. So in many ways, there are kind of canaries in the coal mine for this condition to be able to study it, because anybody with Down syndrome you're looking at is somewhere on the pathway to getting Alzheimer's dementia. And so that was frightening, given the history of Alzheimer's and giving the status of no therapeutics and no immediate one on the horizon.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Specialized In-Home Care: Empowering You to Live Your Best Life
"Navigating the complexities of the healthcare system, especially post -hospitalization, can be a daunting task. But what if there was a way to manage these hurdles with the support of a specialized in -home care professional? Enter Dr. Samantha Benjamin Allen, who sheds light on the often -overlooked gap in healthcare for individuals transitioning from hospital to home. We delve into the benefits, challenges, and costs associated with in -home caregiving with a particular focus on finding the best care plans and treatments for your loved ones. Welcome to Fading Memories, the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had the start -up podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Specialized In-Home Care: Empowering You to Live Your Best Life
"Navigating the complexities of the healthcare system, especially post -hospitalization, can be a daunting task. But what if there was a way to manage these hurdles with the support of a specialized in -home care professional? Enter Dr. Samantha Benjamin Allen, who sheds light on the often -overlooked gap in healthcare for individuals transitioning from hospital to home. We delve into the benefits, challenges, and costs associated with in -home caregiving with a particular focus on finding the best care plans and treatments for your loved ones. Welcome to Fading Memories, the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had the start -up podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Caregiving With Creativity: The Role of Improv in Caregiving
"Discover how Nancy Ann's unique life experiences have enabled her to bring joy, laughter, and an element of surprise to her everyday chores. From nursing to traveling to multitasking, she skillfully applies a dose of comedy to reduce stress and spread happiness. Hear how the concept of yes and can lead to creative problem -solving and how giving a sense of purpose to those we care for can unlock positivity. invaluable Nancy Ann's experience with Alzheimer's caregiving will leave you with a new perspective on living in the moment and appreciating the little things in life. Welcome to Fading Memories, the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years and when I went looking for answers, I had the start a navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. Welcome back, everybody. Must be Tuesday again. I have something fantastic for you. Not that every week's not pretty good, but this week, extra special. So I really appreciate you giving us a little of your time. With me is Nancy Ann Hobart, and she is a nurse and a comedian. And she is going to talk about improv for health and or also how we can use improv for Alzheimer's caregiving. So thanks for joining me, Nancy. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. I just love living in the moment. And that's what it's all about. I have learned to do that a lot better as I've gotten older, but it was not easy with my mom. And I don't know if it was because of the, you know, parent child relationship that, you know, even in my 50s seemed to dominate our feelings, even though she thought I was her best friend. It was it was hard. It was very hard to just let go and be in her world because, you know, I had other things I had to worry about and think about and get done. So I'm a nurse and I plan. But then I always say my saying is don't worry in advance because I have friends that say, Oh, I can't make plans with you on Tuesday because it might rain. Well, it might not rain. So I just say don't worry in advance. You know, if it doesn't work on Tuesday, we could do it on Wednesday. And I know with older people, my mom was ill for a while in Pennsylvania. I flew back a lot during COVID. You don't want to know how many airplanes I was on. And I went back a lot. It was fine. I was fine. But it's true. It's like you think this is going to happen. You could plan it. But, you know, be open to new happenings, new experiences. That's my saying. Yeah. Yeah, I needed to learn to be open to new things because, as you're probably aware, you know, my mom is in late stage Alzheimer's. So getting her into the car, over to the park, out of the car, and she was very good at watching her feet while she walked. And she would literally walk 10 to 15 feet behind me. I could do nothing to fix that problem. And it terrified me that she was going to, like, trip over something and land on her face. And I was going to be the you know what, because I wouldn't let her catch up or, you know, and it's like, I could not get her to walk arm in arm. If I slowed down, she slowed down. If I stopped, she stopped. It was just like, But she wouldn't hold your arm like that for support? No, I'm sorry. I hated it. So I had a guest, Tammy, and I can't remember her last name at the moment. She's been on twice. We were talking before we recorded and she said, Wait, you said your mom was the oldest of four? And I said, Yeah, she was baking. She was keeping an eye on the children. You were one of the children. It's just kind of like her natural state. And I was like, Dang, I wish I'd known that. That was it. Then I could have turned around and play acted like, you know, and talked to her and it would have made sense. But I was just trying to get her to walk next to me. And I know they don't have peripheral vision, all the things but oh my gosh, it was just like the biggest. My mom was also the oldest and I'm an oldest. So when I would go back, I think I was the only one that would give her jobs. And they were little jobs. I said, Mom, there's a load of wash. I'm going to wheel your wheelchair over by the chair. And you can fold it. She was like, Oh, I like to do this because everybody else folds it the wrong way. I'm like, Well, you fold it the right way. So my sister goes, How do you get her to do jobs? I said, I just said, This needs to be done. That needs to be done. You can't stand at the kitchen sink. I could do that. But you could fold the wash. So it's just like, I think it's important to give them little jobs. You know, even if you don't call it a job, say we're gonna have fun with the wash now. You know, and who cares how they fold it. So yeah, I'm a job giver. I'm an oldest. You want a job? Come to my house. I'm the oldest also, but my sister was never compliant.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Caregiving With Creativity: The Role of Improv in Caregiving
"Discover how Nancy Ann's unique life experiences have enabled her to bring joy, laughter, and an element of surprise to her everyday chores. From nursing to traveling to multitasking, she skillfully applies a dose of comedy to reduce stress and spread happiness. Hear how the concept of yes and can lead to creative problem -solving and how giving a sense of purpose to those we care for can unlock positivity. invaluable Nancy Ann's experience with Alzheimer's caregiving will leave you with a new perspective on living in the moment and appreciating the little things in life. Welcome to Fading Memories, the podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years and when I went looking for answers, I had the start a navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. Welcome back, everybody. Must be Tuesday again. I have something fantastic for you. Not that every week's not pretty good, but this week, extra special. So I really appreciate you giving us a little of your time. With me is Nancy Ann Hobart, and she is a nurse and a comedian. And she is going to talk about improv for health and or also how we can use improv for Alzheimer's caregiving. So thanks for joining me, Nancy. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. I just love living in the moment. And that's what it's all about. I have learned to do that a lot better as I've gotten older, but it was not easy with my mom. And I don't know if it was because of the, you know, parent child relationship that, you know, even in my 50s seemed to dominate our feelings, even though she thought I was her best friend. It was it was hard. It was very hard to just let go and be in her world because, you know, I had other things I had to worry about and think about and get done. So I'm a nurse and I plan. But then I always say my saying is don't worry in advance because I have friends that say, Oh, I can't make plans with you on Tuesday because it might rain. Well, it might not rain. So I just say don't worry in advance. You know, if it doesn't work on Tuesday, we could do it on Wednesday. And I know with older people, my mom was ill for a while in Pennsylvania. I flew back a lot during COVID. You don't want to know how many airplanes I was on. And I went back a lot. It was fine. I was fine. But it's true. It's like you think this is going to happen. You could plan it. But, you know, be open to new happenings, new experiences. That's my saying. Yeah. Yeah, I needed to learn to be open to new things because, as you're probably aware, you know, my mom is in late stage Alzheimer's. So getting her into the car, over to the park, out of the car, and she was very good at watching her feet while she walked. And she would literally walk 10 to 15 feet behind me. I could do nothing to fix that problem. And it terrified me that she was going to, like, trip over something and land on her face. And I was going to be the you know what, because I wouldn't let her catch up or, you know, and it's like, I could not get her to walk arm in arm. If I slowed down, she slowed down. If I stopped, she stopped. It was just like, But she wouldn't hold your arm like that for support? No, I'm sorry. I hated it. So I had a guest, Tammy, and I can't remember her last name at the moment. She's been on twice. We were talking before we recorded and she said, Wait, you said your mom was the oldest of four? And I said, Yeah, she was baking. She was keeping an eye on the children. You were one of the children. It's just kind of like her natural state. And I was like, Dang, I wish I'd known that. That was it. Then I could have turned around and play acted like, you know, and talked to her and it would have made sense. But I was just trying to get her to walk next to me. And I know they don't have peripheral vision, all the things but oh my gosh, it was just like the biggest. My mom was also the oldest and I'm an oldest. So when I would go back, I think I was the only one that would give her jobs. And they were little jobs. I said, Mom, there's a load of wash. I'm going to wheel your wheelchair over by the chair. And you can fold it. She was like, Oh, I like to do this because everybody else folds it the wrong way. I'm like, Well, you fold it the right way. So my sister goes, How do you get her to do jobs? I said, I just said, This needs to be done. That needs to be done. You can't stand at the kitchen sink. I could do that. But you could fold the wash. So it's just like, I think it's important to give them little jobs. You know, even if you don't call it a job, say we're gonna have fun with the wash now. You know, and who cares how they fold it. So yeah, I'm a job giver. I'm an oldest. You want a job? Come to my house. I'm the oldest also, but my sister was never compliant.
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
A highlight from Parasites, Toxins and Viruses Role in Inflammation with Dr Todd Watts
"This podcast is sponsored by my friends over at shopc60 .com. If you haven't heard of carbon 60 or otherwise called C60 before, it is a powerful Nobel Prize winning antioxidant that helps to optimize mitochondrial function, fights inflammation, and neutralizes toxic free radicals. I'm a huge fan of using C60 in conjunction with a healthy lifestyle to support your immune system, help your body detox, and increase energy and mental clarity. If you are over the age of 40 and you'd like to kick fatigue and brain fog to the curb this year, visit shopc60 .com and use the coupon code JOCKERS for 15 % off your first order and start taking back control over your health today. The products I use, I use their C60 in organic MCT coconut oil. They have it in various different flavors. They also have sugar -free gummies that are made with allulose and monk fruit. They also have carbon 60 in organic avocado and extra virgin olive oil. When it's combined with these fats, it absorbs more effectively, and carbon 60 is great as a natural energizing tool because it really helps your mitochondria optimize your energy production. Now, if you take it late at night for some individuals, it may seem a little bit stimulating, so that's why we recommend taking it earlier in the day, and it will give you that great energy, that great, great mental clarity that you want all day long that will help reduce the effects of oxidative stress and aging and really help you thrive. So again, guys, go to shopc60 .com, use the coupon code JOCKERS to save 15 % off your first order and start taking back control of your health today. If we're going to be healthy in the 21st century, we have got to keep inflammation under control. Inflammation is literally the root cause of all the different degenerative chronic health conditions, things like Alzheimer's, heart disease, Parkinson's disease, cancer, diabetes. These are all characterized by chronic inflammation. So I went ahead and I interviewed some of the top experts in the world when it comes to and inflammation actually created a summit, it was called the Chronic Inflammation Summit. We hosted it in May of 2021. You may have listened, you may not have, but I wanted to share some of my favorite interviews on this podcast, and this is one of them. You guys are going to get so much value out of this podcast, and if you know anybody that's struggling with any sort of chronic health conditions, maybe they have pain in their diabetes, brain issues, please share this podcast with them. It can literally change and save their lives, and if you haven't already, take a moment and leave us a five star review. Your reviews help us reach more people and impact more lives. Thanks so much for doing that, and let's go into the show. Well, hey everybody, welcome back to the Chronic Inflammation Summit. I'm your host, Dr. David Jockers, and today we're going to be talking about parasites and gut infections, how they provoke inflammation, and natural strategies you can take to help reduce your microbial load, to help heal your microbiome, and reduce inflammation in your body, and really thrive in life. And so I've got a great guest, Dr. Todd Watts, he's affectionately called the Parasite Man, and he runs Total Body Wellness Clinic up in Boise, Idaho, and you may also be familiar with his supplement companies, Microbe Formulas, as well as Cell Core Biosciences. Not only does he help develop supplements, but on top of that, he also educates doctors, lay people, different practitioners of all types on how they can help their clients, particularly clients with chronic inflammation and chronic, just chronically debilitating cases get well. He's well known, people travel to his clinic from literally all over the world. He also works with people over Zoom as well. So Dr. Todd, welcome to the summit. Thanks for having me on, Dr. Jockers. Absolutely. Well, you know, we got to start obviously by talking about parasites. And so really talking about what they are, your experience with them, and what kind of symptoms that somebody might experience if they have parasites. So it's interesting in my journey of my own health and wellness, and in many of my clients and patients, how much of a part this became of it, where in the beginning, I didn't know really anything about parasites, it was more working with Lyme disease and the co -infections and Epstein -Barr and many of the more commonly known things. So in this evolution of things, parasites came up with a doctor that I had worked with and he said, hey, look, your headaches and some of the other seasonal allergies and things that are going on, these are coming from a threadworm, a specific type of parasite. So this is what got me on to learning all about parasites and diving into the physiology within the body, what it's doing and what's happening.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Unforgettable Echoes: Unraveling War, Alzheimer's & The Quest for Belonging
"For those who haven't experienced that, who aren't living with mental illness or haven't had sort of trauma or that experience, I wanted them to be able to see what it's like to be living with that, right? And the book is structured very much in that way, in the sense of how it goes back and forth and sort of mimics the process of this healing journey. The book is really centered around sort of the question of what would you do if the person that you would normally turn to no longer recognized you. And in essence, what I've discovered, at least for me, is that memories are incredibly powerful and memories can both break us and heal us. In this episode, I have a captivating discussion with E. M. Liddick, author of All the Memories That Remain. In our conversation, Eric shares his personal journey of coping with post -traumatic stress disorder and the experience of caring for his father, who had Alzheimer's. From serving in the 82nd Airborne Division and the 75th Ranger Regiment in Afghanistan, to dealing with his father's diagnosis, Liddick offers an insightful look into the complexities of mental health, re -humanizing those affected and the importance of making people feel seen and heard. Welcome to Fading Memories. A podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Unforgettable Echoes: Unraveling War, Alzheimer's & The Quest for Belonging
"For those who haven't experienced that, who aren't living with mental illness or haven't had sort of trauma or that experience, I wanted them to be able to see what it's like to be living with that, right? And the book is structured very much in that way, in the sense of how it goes back and forth and sort of mimics the process of this healing journey. The book is really centered around sort of the question of what would you do if the person that you would normally turn to no longer recognized you. And in essence, what I've discovered, at least for me, is that memories are incredibly powerful and memories can both break us and heal us. In this episode, I have a captivating discussion with E. M. Liddick, author of All the Memories That Remain. In our conversation, Eric shares his personal journey of coping with post -traumatic stress disorder and the experience of caring for his father, who had Alzheimer's. From serving in the 82nd Airborne Division and the 75th Ranger Regiment in Afghanistan, to dealing with his father's diagnosis, Liddick offers an insightful look into the complexities of mental health, re -humanizing those affected and the importance of making people feel seen and heard. Welcome to Fading Memories. A podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories.
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
A highlight from The Top 5 Most Inflammatory Food Ingredients to Avoid
"Hello, and welcome to the Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition Podcast, the show designed to give you science -based solutions to improve your health and life. I'm Dr. David Jockers, doctor of natural medicine and creator of drjockers .com, and I'm the host of this podcast. I'm here to tell you that your body was created to heal itself, and on this show, we focus on strategies you can apply today to heal and function at your best. Thanks for spending time with me, and let's go into the show. Are hidden toxins and stressors making you feel run down and tired, worried about oxidative stress from exposure to EMF, 5G, heavy metals, chemicals, processed foods, and the like? You see, in our modern world, toxic is the new normal. No matter how health conscious you try to be, the truth is that every single day, you're being bombarded by harmful toxins and stressors. When left to roam free, these toxins take on the form of something called free radicals. Free radicals promote an unhealthy inflammatory response and contribute to oxidative damage on a site or level, basically like the rusting of metal or the browning of an apple that potentially leads to premature aging, a lower quality of life, and a range of health problems. However, there is good news. Antioxidants are crucial in combating free radicals and keeping you on track, and one of the most powerful antioxidants known to man is glutathione. Glutathione fights free radicals and molecules that cause cellular damage while repairing DNA and flushing out toxins, but here's the thing. Not all glutathione supplements are created equal. If you're taking glutathione in capsule or tablet form, you're missing out on key nutrients as they will simply pass through your body without being absorbed. You can thank your stomach acid for that. However, our friends over at Puroality Health have a patented formula that utilizes something called Mycell Liposomal Technology, which delivers the nutrients into your bloodstream, proven to be 800 % more efficient. Even better, it's backed by a 180 -day money back guarantee. And today we have a 30 % off coupon for you. Just visit PuroalityHealth .com, that's P -U -R -A -L -I -T -Y -H -E -A -L -T -H .com, and use the coupon code DRJ to access 30 % off today. Again, that coupon code is DRJ. Use that at PuroalityHealth .com and check out their Mycell Liposomal Clutathione. This podcast is an audio recording of one of my most popular YouTube videos on the top five most inflammatory foods to avoid. Super critical that we understand these foods, these food ingredients, and that we're reading labels and making sure we're avoiding them so we can keep inflammation under control in our body. And you guys are going to really enjoy this. If you know anybody that's looking to improve their nutrition, please share this podcast with them. If you've not subscribed to our channel, do that now so you never miss one of these important trainings. And also take a moment and leave us a five -star review. I've got a great one here from Mary. She says, Dr. Jockers has helped me learn how to take better care of my body through this informative podcast. Thank you for sharing your faith. Thanks so much, Mary. You guys can leave your five -star review. Just go to Apple iTunes, wherever you listen to the podcast, scroll to the bottom where it says, leave a review and leave us a five -star review. When you do that, it helps us reach more people and impact more lives. Thanks so much for doing that and let's go into the show. Hey, today we're talking about the five most inflammatory foods that you want to avoid. These foods drive up inflammation. We know that inflammation is at the root. Chronic inflammation is at the root of all chronic degenerative diseases. We're talking about things like dementia, Alzheimer's, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune conditions. All of them at the root have chronic inflammation and much of that can be avoided because it comes from our diet and so we've got to get our diet, our nutrition right in order to keep inflammation down so we can think better, feel better and really thrive in life. And so these are the foods we want to make sure we avoid. Number one, processed sugar and high fructose corn syrup. So if you see sugar as an ingredient, most of the time it's not a good thing. Sometimes in some cases, maybe like a fermented coconut water or something like that possibly could be good. But in general, if you see sugar as an ingredient in something, it's not good. It's going to be processed sugar. And also if you see high fructose corn syrup or any type of corn syrup, you want to make sure you avoid that super high glycemic impact which drives up your blood sugar and drives up your insulin levels, drives up inflammation in the body, causes weight gain, causes blood sugar imbalances and again drives up inflammation. So got to avoid that. Number two, processed seed oils and trans fats. What does that mean? What is a seed oil? So we take a seed, for example, let's say corn actually is considered a seed. So we take the corn, the kernel of it, and we press it to get oil. There's not actually a whole lot of oil in there. And so we have to press it, you know, we have to take a lot of corn, right? In fact, to create one ounce of corn oil, you have to take a thousand bushels of corn. And so you would never get that in nature. However, it's really easy to do, you know, because our government subsidizes the production of corn. It's easy for manufacturers to get. It's really cheap for them. So they're able to produce it and you can get some some salad dressing that uses corn oil as their base, pour it on your salad and you get an ounce of corn oil and that corn oil is really high in omega -6 fats, it's damaged fats, it's pro -inflammatory fats that are unstable and drive up oxidative stress and inflammation in the body. So we want to make sure we're avoiding these seed oils, corn oil, soybean, safflower, cotton seed, peanut oil, sunflower oil, canola, I mentioned peanut oil. I think I mentioned most of them, cotton seed. So we want to make sure that we're avoiding those and also anything that says partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oil, that is a trans fat, highly reactive in the body, highly inflammatory. And what happens is these denatured fats, these denatured polyunsaturated fats and trans fats get into the cell membrane of all the cells of our body and they will literally sit there for six months to a year sometimes. So it takes you roughly six months, sometimes a year, to actually detoxify these out of your cell membrane to get the inflammation under control. So you want to do everything you can to reduce your exposure to them, to reduce any level of consumption of those seed oils. Number three is gluten and you may have heard of gluten -free and gluten, but you may not know what it is. Gluten is a protein that's found in wheat, barley, rye, and chamouton spelt. Those are the main grains that have gluten. However, there's families of the actual gliadin compound that are found in all grains. And gluten can be problematic because some people have a major sensitivity or an allergy basically to it and they create a strong antibody response and they may be prone to things like celiac disease where the villi in the small intestine get completely destroyed. The villi are important. They're little pockets in the small intestine that are essential for our body to be able to really deliver and absorb nutrients into the bloodstream. When those pockets get destroyed, we're not able to extract nutrients from the food that we consume as effectively. There's brush border enzymes and all different types of mechanisms that allow us to utilize those villi to maximize nutrient absorption. So people with celiac disease, they right from the start have more trouble getting nutrients from their food. And there are a lot of people that have an allergy to gluten that doesn't even affect their digestive system. We call it non -celiac gluten sensitivity. So they have a sensitivity to gluten that primarily affects maybe their skin. Maybe when they eat gluten, they have more eczema or they have more joint pain or they have brain fog, depression, anxiety, different issues like that. And so non -celiac gluten sensitivity is a big issue as well. And then even if you feel like you tolerate gluten well, we know that gluten, the molecule, will actually stimulate the production of zonulin in your intestine. And zonulin is this protein that helps with the integrity of the tight junctions in between the intestinal cells called enterocytes. And the more zonulin that's produced, the looser those tight junctions become. So gluten has been shown, even in people that don't have a gluten sensitivity or gluten allergy, it has actually been shown to increase zonulin levels pretty dramatically to the point where the tight junctions in the gut become incredibly permeable, right? So the tight junctions, they become very, very loose and weak. And that increases the permeability and allows large undigested food molecules as well as bacteria and bacterial waste, things things like LPS, which we call endotoxin, as well as yeast, parasites, and all the different microbial waste to seep out into the bloodstream. And all of that microbial waste and large undigested food particles will stimulate the immune system to drive up inflammation in the body. So we know gluten is a major and a potent trigger of inflammation for some people more than others, but for all of us at some level, it's going to drive up inflammation. I just want to interrupt this podcast to tell you about this amazing product called Joint Support by Pure Health Research. If you're out there and you're struggling with stiff or aching joints, and you're tired of letting that discomfort steal the joy and freedom from your life, you've got to try Joint Support. It contains seven of Mother Nature's best superfoods for supporting comfortable, healthy, and flexible joints, and it even promotes healthy cartilage growth too. Now, all it takes is one small capsule of Joint Support every day to start feeling the positive effects on your joint health. And as a listener of our show, you can try Joint Support risk -free today and get a free 30 -day supply of Omega -3 when you take advantage of this special offer. It can promote healthy joint lubrication, making it easier to move in comfort. You're also going to get two free eBooks so you can learn more about joint health. Just head over to getjointhelp .com forward slash jockers.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Caregiver Connections: Exploring The Impact of Personalized Text Messages
"Imagine being able to reach out for support without the pressure of immediate responses or the need for lengthy conversations. That's the unique advantage of Help Text, text message support for caregivers. It's not just about practical advice, but it's about normalizing the feelings of loneliness and isolation that often come along with caregiver journeys. We are joined by Wanda Medina, a devoted caregiver for her husband Hector, who has early onset Alzheimer's. She shares her personal journey with Help Text from grief to caregiving. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice, you can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 percent of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech -savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 percent of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimp .com. Now, on with our show. Hello, listeners! You know I appreciate you giving me some time. This week we are talking to Melissa and Wanda. Also, the link is in the show notes. And Wanda is a passionate advocate of help text and you're probably thinking, what in the heck is help text? And that is what we're talking about today. So, we're going to start with Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Why don't you tell us your title and a little bit about your background with the company? Sure. Thanks for having us. My name is Melissa Lunardini and I am Head of Clinical at Help Text. I'm also a former caregiver of two of my grandparents who I got to shepherd into their kind of final resting place during their actively dying stage and caring for them for many years in advance. And I also have a hospice background as well in bereavement. Part of my role is just to make sure that the texts that we are delivering to people who sign up for our caregiver product, for example, that those texts feel like we're addressing anticipatory grief but also how to better care for their loved ones during end of life and gentle reminders on how to take care of yourself because we know that it's emotionally and physically hard to be a caregiver.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Caregiver Connections: Exploring The Impact of Personalized Text Messages
"Imagine being able to reach out for support without the pressure of immediate responses or the need for lengthy conversations. That's the unique advantage of Help Text, text message support for caregivers. It's not just about practical advice, but it's about normalizing the feelings of loneliness and isolation that often come along with caregiver journeys. We are joined by Wanda Medina, a devoted caregiver for her husband Hector, who has early onset Alzheimer's. She shares her personal journey with Help Text from grief to caregiving. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice, you can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 percent of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech -savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 percent of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimp .com. Now, on with our show. Hello, listeners! You know I appreciate you giving me some time. This week we are talking to Melissa and Wanda. Also, the link is in the show notes. And Wanda is a passionate advocate of help text and you're probably thinking, what in the heck is help text? And that is what we're talking about today. So, we're going to start with Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Why don't you tell us your title and a little bit about your background with the company? Sure. Thanks for having us. My name is Melissa Lunardini and I am Head of Clinical at Help Text. I'm also a former caregiver of two of my grandparents who I got to shepherd into their kind of final resting place during their actively dying stage and caring for them for many years in advance. And I also have a hospice background as well in bereavement. Part of my role is just to make sure that the texts that we are delivering to people who sign up for our caregiver product, for example, that those texts feel like we're addressing anticipatory grief but also how to better care for their loved ones during end of life and gentle reminders on how to take care of yourself because we know that it's emotionally and physically hard to be a caregiver.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Skin Deep: The Promising New Skin Test for Early Alzheimer's Detection
"What if there was a painless and non -evasive way to detect Alzheimer's disease earlier than ever? In this bonus episode, I chat with Frank Amato from SynapseDX, a pioneer in healthcare innovation who might just have the answer. In this engaging discussion, we dive into Frank's groundbreaking work on the DSCRN test, a revolutionary skin test for Alzheimer's. Frank's passion for healthcare and his mission to transform Alzheimer's diagnosis makes this conversation a must listen for anyone interested in the latest advancement in dementia healthcare. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Memories. Fading If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpismhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Northwest Newsradio
"alzheimer" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"From the Alzheimer's you have places to be we have the reports to get you there I'm Kimmy Klein here at Jordan the Northwest best traffic coverage every 10 minutes news radio 1000 FM 97 7 your traffic information station news radio 1000 FM 97 7 stay connected stay informed I'm Kathy O 'Shea and here's what's happening another illegal encampment is growing in Burien for the fourth time this year come before us Hannah samples reports the new location is at 152nd and 4th Avenue a never -ending cycle campers arrive illegal drug use and violence follows business owners tell me these few tents arrived just a few days ago they say they feel hopeless and like the city should be doing more the past few days have been relocated here we've had a it's been a headache dealing with this whole situation across street the from the new encampment located on what appears to be private property Emmanuel Guzman watches as more homeless arrived I don't feel safe I can only imagine how other people feel about it too what is starting out small is only a ripple from effect other encampments the city is shut down the other day I was out here with my six -year -old son and he found needle a so that really puts everyone at harm in the past few months the homeless have moved from camp to camp they first started at City Hall then migrated to a nearby dog park then Dottie Harper Park and now here in Burien Hannah Knowles Como News the now house has its hands on the five -year FAA reauthorization act passed by the committee on Friday more from Northwest News Radio's Kim Shepard Washington Democrat Rick Larson chairs the committee he says the nationwide ground stop that followed a breakdown of the NOTAM system earlier this is just one of their concerns so the outage was initially caused by human error the system's lack of redundancies and outdated were technology what allowed it to happen in the first place while the FAA is in the midst of a multi NOTAM -year modernization effort we do need to strengthen the IT infrastructure that supports the National System Airspace one of the more controversial changes included in the proposal rolling back an Obama era rule requiring Airlines to show the total cost of a ticket when advertising fares in its current form the act would allow airlines to exclude taxes and fees so long as there's a hyperlink where customers can see the total cost the measure now heads to the floor House for debate Kim Shepard Northwest News Radio the Biden administration's chief educator says student loan debt relief is key to making education more accessible more from Northwest News Radio's Ryan Harris US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says for now it's in the hands of the US Supreme Court but he says as an administration debt relief for students is quote part of their DNA because he says borrowers have been hit hard and we have some elected officials getting hundreds of thousand dollars in loan and forgiveness they're complaining that one of their constituents needs ten thousand dollars and a little bit of assistance to get back on their feet after the pandemic to me that's hypocrisy we're going to stand up for our students the secretary was on a visit to the Academy Seattle where Maritime he says it's important young Americans get more hands -on education and don't always need a four -year degree you can go out get trained here and work making good money providing for your family this an is example of when we talk about investing in America what it looks like Cardona says it's also important to have places like the Academy as we keep building a skilled workforce Ryan Harris Northwest News Radio self -rescued it is what park officials are saying of a missing hiker in Olympic National Park the National Park Service says 44 year old Hunter Fraser left his vehicle at Deer Ridge Trailhead on Monday before embarking on a 40 -mile two -night backpacking trek his last text to family was on Tuesday he was due to return Wednesday but didn't show up he was self -rescued with the assistance of other hikers according to the Park Service he was then given a ride to Quilcene where he was sent met by his family Fraser is a California resident described as an extremely experienced solo hiker news radio traffic from the high -performance homes traffic center in Spanaway on State Route 7 southbound at B Street an earlier collision that was blocking the southbound lanes has been cleared still seeing some minor delays as those backups get moving once again elsewhere on i -5 northbound if you're heading from Tacoma to Seattle that drive taking you just over 35 minutes right now southbound Seattle to Tacoma taking closer to 30 our next Northwest traffic at 454 I'm Sam Rongvi news radio 1000 FM 97 .7 forecast from the Northwest crawlspace services weather center
Focus On the Family Daily Broadcast
"alzheimer" Discussed on Focus On the Family Daily Broadcast
"What a touching story of faithfulness and devotion and unconditional love. That's Robertson McQueen on focus on the family. You know, gene and I will be celebrating 37 years of marriage in August, and we've been through some ups and downs, but I like to think we have another 20 or 30 years ahead of us. Even if it means caring for one another through crippling illness of some sort, like we've heard today. I can tell you after having gene take care of me with a broken ankle a few years ago. I can see just a glimmer of how difficult that can be for the caregiver, and yet doctor mcquilken counted it all joy, like the apostle Paul. Of course, he was blessed to be in a position to be able to retire early, and not everybody has that luxury, and I get that. Muriel passed away in September 2003, 5 months after doctor McQueen, gave this very speech in a letter to their friends and supporters, he wrote for 55 years she was flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone, so it's like a ripping of my flesh and deeper, my very bones. Some may think I feel relief from the burden, after all it was ten years of total caregiving, but it doesn't work like that. There's a bonding with the one who is totally dependent on you and takes love to a deeper level. The pain is greater, not less. That is really touching. Yeah, it really is, John. And I should note that doctor mcquilken did find love again in 2005, he married Deborah Jones, and they had 11 years of happiness together until he died in 2016 at the age of 88. You know, a strong and enduring love is what we want for everyone who is married, and that's why focus on the families working hard to provide the resources that you need. Just one example is our free online marriage assessment to help you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your relationship. You take a quiz and then you'll be guided to articles that will help you in those areas of weakness that it will identify. Here's a note we received from Kristen a few weeks after she and her husband took the assessment. She said the discussions we've had since completing the marriage assessment have been a bit emotional, but we've had some revelations that caused a major breakthrough. We are experiencing what I'd call a second honeymoon. Thanks focus on the family for all you do. I don't know that anybody thought a 5 or ten minute quiz would bring a second honeymoon, but what a great outcome. And Jim over a million couples now have completed that assessment, so I can only imagine how many others are experiencing breakthroughs like that. Well, it's amazing, but we can't do this work alone. We need your financial partnership and your prayers for this ministry as well. The best way to help is to become a true sustainer of this ministry by making a monthly pledge it doesn't have to be a large amount. It's the consistency that really helps us even out the budget month to month and year to year, and when you make a pledge of any amount will send you Robertson a book called a promise kept. It's a much deeper look at his marriage to muriel and how they walk through so many difficult years together. And that'll be our way of saying thank you for partnering with us. And if you can't make that monthly commitment right now, we understand that. We can send the book to you for a one time donation of any amount. You can get your copy of this beautiful little gift book, a promise kept when you call 800, the letter a in the word family, or follow the link in the show notes to donate and get the book. When you're online, look for the free marriage assessment tool that helped Kristen and her husband and look for a link to our focus on the family marriage podcast. Another great resource that comes out twice weekly to encourage you as a married couple. Next time, Greg smalley and bob Paul will help shine some light on the myths of marriage. The worst question you can ever ask is how do I have a better marriage? Because it takes two. The best question is God, how can I be a better husband? How can I be a better wife? What is within my control? On behalf of Jim Daly and the entire team, thanks for listening to this focus on the family podcast. Take a moment, please and leave a rating for us in your podcast app and share this episode with a friend. I'm John fuller inviting you back next time as we once again help you and your family thrive in Christ. I'm here asking people what happens when you turn 70 and a half. You get free ice cream for life? More senior discounts? When you turn 70 and a half, you are eligible for an IRA charitable rollover, and you can give that to focus on the family. You can find out more at focus planned giving dot com. Reduce your taxable income and help families thrive for generations to come, it's a gift that appreciates and we appreciate you for giving it.
Mission Daily
"alzheimer" Discussed on Mission Daily
"But so that was the first thing, starting off with her, that I'm like, this is the most personalized approach I've ever gotten before, and I think my bar was so low when it came to working with doctors. I just didn't realize how custom someone can be when they look at exact things about you. And so when she was getting into details about what's working with me, she was going into ingredient level stuff. Because of what she saw in my genes, she was telling me what genes were turned on and off. So she was like, you know, your Alzheimer gene is actually turned off, which is good, 'cause it seems like you have that in your family history, but yours is turned off. This gene is turned on. And so she was going through all those metrics, and then she started saying, here's the things that you need to eat or not eat based off of what I'm seeing in your body right now. And the biggest thing for me, she's like, you should never be eating turmeric, which how many times do you read in the media where it's like, everyone needs turmeric with some black pepper curcumin in it, anti inflammatory. And that's actually, yeah, I've seen, I've seen the news articles that say stuff about it. Yeah. Blanket responses, like everyone needs it. What's another thing you hear everyone needs vitamin D? What am I not supposed to have? I'm not supposed to supplement vitamin D she's like your levels. If you were to ever supplement it, you would just need a baby dropper amount of vitamin D and that's good enough for you. She was like other people, they need maybe double like 50,000 I use or whatever to actually get them to a place where they're good. She's like, not you. And so it's like, I was very much just taken back by, oh my gosh, all the things that I thought were good for me, or healthy, that is just like everyone should just eat chicken and broccoli.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"alzheimer" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"And then we could talk about maybe what getting the diagnosis was like. Because I don't, I don't know what that was like for my mom because I don't know when I know when it happened, but it was after the fact. You want to ask me the question. Certainly. A little quickly. So you were diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's at 64, but you started having trouble at 60. Is that correct? I don't know exactly when I started having trouble, you know? And I don't know if anybody can tell for sure their onset starts, you know, for me, you know, I could tell things were kind of out of shape and not particularly the way I would like them to be and. I just thought that at some point and I can't believe I got this just coming on, you know, but I think it is and I just got to go with the flow and do the best I can and just stay with it and that's what I've been doing. Now you're basically a retired attorney in my family by my mom tried to hide it and my dad I think tried to deny that anything was going on, which we all know is not helpful was that ever something you considered just not telling people what was happening or keeping it just in the family no, you know I never, you know, I was a lawyer and you want lawyer for a long time and that never entered into Alzheimer's never entered into my thoughts when I was a lawyer, you know? Nothing in her up to it, I guess. And. As far as did I try to keep my Alzheimer's secret, I'm just the opposite. I tell anybody who wants to know about Alzheimer's, I'll tell them anything I can tell. And I actually, I tried to do it all the time. I talked to people anybody who wants to know about Alzheimer's, who not an expert in our talk to you for till the cows come home if you want to. Well, I think that's important. And I think Travis probably agrees. What was the initial beginning of the, well, the diagnosis in the beginning of this journey like for you? Because that must be, I don't know how much harder it was. Well, my mom also had early onset Alzheimer's. I forget that because she had it for so long. What was that like for you, Travis? Yeah, yeah, very hard. You know, like I said, no one wants to hear that news. You have all submerged, your parent has Alzheimer's, your sibling has Alzheimer's. It's bad news. And I think, you know, for a lot of people, it probably doesn't come as a surprise necessarily because there have been some signs over time and for dad, one of the first challenges with some challenges with navigation and map reading, he had always been very good with navigating with the math encompass out in the Woods or navigating the streets around number, you know, his work commute and getting around the traffic and all that kind of stuff. And you know, at some point, that got a bit harder. In my advice, again, I'm not a doctor or anything either, but I do feel like one thing I've learned over the last few years is whereas in the past, you know, the story about Alzheimer's or mild cognitive impairment or other types of dementia was, you know, there's no treatment and no cure.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"alzheimer" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"And then we could talk about maybe what getting the diagnosis was like. Because I don't, I don't know what that was like for my mom because I don't know when I know when it happened, but it was after the fact. You want to ask me the question. Certainly. A little quickly. So you were diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's at 64, but you started having trouble at 60. Is that correct? I don't know exactly when I started having trouble, you know? And I don't know if anybody can tell for sure their onset starts, you know, for me, you know, I could tell things were kind of out of shape and not particularly the way I would like them to be and. I just thought that at some point and I can't believe I got this just coming on, you know, but I think it is and I just got to go with the flow and do the best I can and just stay with it and that's what I've been doing. Now you're basically a retired attorney in my family by my mom tried to hide it and my dad I think tried to deny that anything was going on, which we all know is not helpful was that ever something you considered just not telling people what was happening or keeping it just in the family no, you know I never, you know, I was a lawyer and you want lawyer for a long time and that never entered into Alzheimer's never entered into my thoughts when I was a lawyer, you know? Nothing in her up to it, I guess. And. As far as did I try to keep my Alzheimer's secret, I'm just the opposite. I tell anybody who wants to know about Alzheimer's, I'll tell them anything I can tell. And I actually, I tried to do it all the time. I talked to people anybody who wants to know about Alzheimer's, who not an expert in our talk to you for till the cows come home if you want to. Well, I think that's important. And I think Travis probably agrees. What was the initial beginning of the, well, the diagnosis in the beginning of this journey like for you? Because that must be, I don't know how much harder it was. Well, my mom also had early onset Alzheimer's. I forget that because she had it for so long. What was that like for you, Travis? Yeah, yeah, very hard. You know, like I said, no one wants to hear that news. You have all submerged, your parent has Alzheimer's, your sibling has Alzheimer's. It's bad news. And I think, you know, for a lot of people, it probably doesn't come as a surprise necessarily because there have been some signs over time and for dad, one of the first challenges with some challenges with navigation and map reading, he had always been very good with navigating with the math encompass out in the Woods or navigating the streets around number, you know, his work commute and getting around the traffic and all that kind of stuff. And you know, at some point, that got a bit harder. In my advice, again, I'm not a doctor or anything either, but I do feel like one thing I've learned over the last few years is whereas in the past, you know, the story about Alzheimer's or mild cognitive impairment or other types of dementia was, you know, there's no treatment and no cure.
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
"alzheimer" Discussed on Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
"Also if you check out the show notes, I'll have links to all of his books. Of course, you can find them on Amazon or any place that you find books. And guys, if you have not subscribed to my channel, my podcast. Now is the time to do it. That way you never miss one of these important podcasts. And also, leave a 5 star review. When you leave a review that actually helps us reach more people and impact more lives with this message. Thank you so much for doing that, guys. And let's go into the show. Well, I've got doctor Dale bredesen here. He is The New York Times bestselling author of the end of Alzheimer's and the end of Alzheimer's program new book that he just recently came out with. And these are amazing books. If you're looking to improve your brain, you definitely have to get these books. I'm currently reading the end of Alzheimer's program, fantastic book, and doctor bredesen is also the developer of the recode protocol, which is a first protocol to enhance cognition and reverse decline at any age. So doctor bredesen really excited to have you here. Excited for this conversation. Thanks so much, doctor Doug, it's great to talk to you. Absolutely. Well, let's start with what patient results you've seen in your years studying the recode protocol.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"alzheimer" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"Your legacy digitizing legacy if you wanna tell meaningful things that happened in your life or if you wanna keep it nice and fluffy. Hey i like this. I like this. And that's that it's it's really up to the to the individual. Yeah and we should mention that We made it so that if you are a caregiver you can host multiple echo boxes so you can have one for all of your patients and then we have the ability to gifted so. Let's say they pass away and their family members want to ownership of the echo box. You can gift it to another device installed. Let's was gonna be my next question. is you know. Obviously the for those of us who are still cognitively. Fine at least. I think i am. You know this is a cool way like start my own echo box to do some of the stuff we've just talked about especially with you know like in our old house. It was easy. I knew exactly what to grab was my husband's grandmothers. hope chest. Which happens to be right there and that doesn't have all photo albums anymore because it got too much stuff but We talked a little bit. About how i could have. Maybe used some of the information. My mom would've entered as a way of helping connect as she got further along into her alzheimer's so how how can caregivers either family caregivers or professional caregivers. How can they utilize echo box to do just that to kinda help. Bring people out of the fog of alzheimer's and dementia a little when when we can't do that one hundred percent but there was occasionally my mom would come up with a conversation. It'd be like we're that come. From and in those would have been have been better prepared. i would have been able to enjoy. The more lives came so far out of the blue like i. My shock overtook my ability to think fast enough to respond and bringing those out as much as possible right. Well i think probably to adjust the question. I think the best way i mean. Everyone's gonna use it a little bit differently. And i think the longer that we're out there the more that we'll see the results from people who have gone through the different stages of their life because we can't fast forward ten years but it would be interesting to see somebody who immediate right at the beginning of the dementia experience just a while. They're still able to put in lots of details. Where later might be a struggle. We love to see what that kind of produces or how much that helps people But for now. We're so new that with the best way to connect whether it's with your with your own life or with your parents.
Thyme 4 Tea with Mikita
"alzheimer" Discussed on Thyme 4 Tea with Mikita
"I remember the first time I watched it, it was actually in college with a group of friends and we were participating in the walk to end Alzheimer's. So we wanted to learn more and so we got together to watch this movie. And it's not a rainbows and butterflies type of movie. It's realistic. But it's a great movie. And I'm glad that you brought it up. The notebook, that was another one where when I was younger, you know, it's the notebook, everyone. Yes. But once I had a family member with Alzheimer's disease, I watched it after and my thought on that movie. I never appreciated it as much as I do now. Both we don't see Alzheimer's in the news enough yet. We've come a long way, of course, a very long way. But there's still a ways to go. And so anytime, especially out of Hollywood, that we see Alzheimer's mentioned. That is such a big win for us. It helps increase conversation and awareness, just recently, unfortunately and understanding Tony Bennett and his progression with Alzheimer's, of course, that has just been heartbreaking. I think to everyone in the United States it has been nice to see his family openly talking about it though and continuing the conversation. And I hope that through that there are families at home that also feel comfortable having that conversation and sharing their story. Yeah, I think it was really to have them because I know at this time that, you know, what they're probably going through. But like you said to continue that conversation to make it something that people can take the conversation from from the TV to have it at home in an open way and ask the questions maybe they wanted to ask or afraid to ask. And then seek out more information because that's what happens. We have conversations, and those conversations lead to us to connecting with either other people or more information, and then if you're like me, you get more information you want to share it. I want to let someone else know, hey, I just found out about this resource. If you know someone is dealing with this, you know, this is a great place to go. You know, so it's just, but you have to have the conversation first and for his family to have the conversation. And we all know, like you say, when Hollywood has a conversation or someone that's, you know, like Tony then it's family has a conversation..
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"alzheimer" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"Oh really great questions and so if you think about it i mean it's a really sophisticated biochemical barrier. You can almost think of it as a wall. That's protecting our brain from things that might be in our bodies or that might harm our brain And that's really because our brain is our control center right so it's controlling our every process and so we need to protect it and keep it as healthy as as it possibly can to do all of those processes but it's a it's a biochemical of very sophisticated biochemical barrier that allows only certain things into our brain that helps brain with its processes and its activity and it's it's overall functioning But as we age we do see that. There are changes in our blood brain barrier. And and that's normal aging but in alzheimer's and other brain diseases we see that accelerated or we see that that the Those changes actually increased in a way. Where things that maybe shouldn't be getting in our brain or able to get into our brain and exactly how and what questions to ask exactly what's happening or what that breakdown in. There's a few teams that are working on that right now and in fact some funding from the alzheimer's association to a research team at the university of southern california is doing just that and trying to say okay. We know there are changes in the blood brain barrier. Do those changes actually come before after some of the other brain changes in that somebody with alzheimer's may have and so. Do you see a build up of the emily. Plaques or the towel tangled before or after you see these changes in the blood brain barrier. And what could that connection. Be so asking some of those big questions big answers. Hopefully we'll find them soon. Right absolutely did the study. Return any results about. Why people living with alzheimer's may have had like a more rapid decline or is that just sort of ancillary findings. Because that's what i've seen. Is i know of a few people. Living with some form of dementia got cova and it just like exploded their progression which is horrible but also fascinating than they really. Stark way did they. Did they find any reasons for that or they just kind of not paying attention to that part so in in studies that are being presented it at a. I see this year. What we're actually looking at is the impact of covert in the and kind of the long term. We see changes in behavior. Memory and thinking and some studies are now showing. Some of those that are being presented are showing that. There's actually some biology. That's changing too. So you see changes in some of the The under or some markers of biology that's associated with the cells that are dying. Or which is you. Know the kind of the progression of the disease or or some of the disease alzheimer's specific brain changes as well. Now what this means. In terms of does it reversed itself. Is that something that it happens. And then your body able to recover. We don't know yet but that's that's certainly one of the question. What are the other questions are. Do you see these brain changes because individuals already have some of the underlying biology and you're seeing an acceleration and we.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"alzheimer" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"Oh really great questions and so if you think about it i mean it's a really sophisticated biochemical barrier. You can almost think of it as a wall. That's protecting our brain from things that might be in our bodies or that might harm our brain And that's really because our brain is our control center right so it's controlling our every process and so we need to protect it and keep it as healthy as as it possibly can to do all of those processes but it's a it's a biochemical of very sophisticated biochemical barrier that allows only certain things into our brain that helps brain with its processes and its activity and it's it's overall functioning But as we age we do see that. There are changes in our blood brain barrier. And and that's normal aging but in alzheimer's and other brain diseases we see that accelerated or we see that that the Those changes actually increased in a way. Where things that maybe shouldn't be getting in our brain or able to get into our brain and exactly how and what questions to ask exactly what's happening or what that breakdown in. There's a few teams that are working on that right now and in fact some funding from the alzheimer's association to a research team at the university of southern california is doing just that and trying to say okay. We know there are changes in the blood brain barrier. Do those changes actually come before after some of the other brain changes in that somebody with alzheimer's may have and so. Do you see a build up of the emily. Plaques or the towel tangled before or after you see these changes in the blood brain barrier. And what could that connection. Be so asking some of those big questions big answers. Hopefully we'll find them soon. Right absolutely did the study. Return any results about. Why people living with alzheimer's may have had like a more rapid decline or is that just sort of ancillary findings. Because that's what i've seen. Is i know of a few people. Living with some form of dementia got cova and it just like exploded their progression which is horrible but also fascinating than they really. Stark way did they. Did they find any reasons for that or they just kind of not paying attention to that part so in in studies that are being presented it at a. I see this year. What we're actually looking at is the impact of covert in the and kind of the long term. We see changes in behavior. Memory and thinking and some studies are now showing. Some of those that are being presented are showing that. There's actually some biology. That's changing too. So you see changes in some of the The under or some markers of biology that's associated with the cells that are dying. Or which is you. Know the kind of the progression of the disease or or some of the disease alzheimer's specific brain changes as well. Now what this means. In terms of does it reversed itself. Is that something that it happens. And then your body able to recover. We don't know yet but that's that's certainly one of the question. What are the other questions are. Do you see these brain changes because individuals already have some of the underlying biology and you're seeing an acceleration and we.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"alzheimer" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
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The Economist: Babbage
"alzheimer" Discussed on The Economist: Babbage
"Treat the problems that caused dementia. Yes we i'll time is of course is is by far the most common cause of dementia accounting for maybe sixty to eighty percent of cases. But it's only one of dozens and some researchers are more optimistic in fact about finding treatments for some quite specific and rare reforms adventure like huntingdon's disease dementia associated with parkinson's disease like frontal temporal lobe dementia. Which are rare genetic conditions for which various forms of gene therapy. Maybe develop that cured earlier beyond that and often associated also with dementia is the mona's vascular dementia and their what seems to be having. The biggest effect is not drug treatments but changes in lifestyle. I mean it's remarkable in fact that a study published a couple of years ago showed that in the first fifteen years of this century the likelihood of a seventy five year old in america going on to develop dementia reduced from about one in four to about one in five which is significant without these drugs. Of course that's just by changing the modifiable risk factors made the way people live their lives. Simon thank you very much. Thank you and also i to. John gallagher for more analysis like this you can subscribe to the economist just to economist dot com slash podcast offer. The link is in the show notes. How can people collect water where there's not enough of it like. In the driest places on earth atacama desert since one thousand nine hundred thousand people in chile have been investigating how to capture fog moisture in the air and turn it into water. The result was a low tech solution. Large nets stretched between polls which capture water droplets in the air. This simple technique has been effective three sixty square meter nets in a chilean cooperative. Called lost thomas can harvest six hundred fifty leaders of water a day but scientists think they can tweak the mesh material and do better still typical full collectors. they are large meshes on faulty. Fifty square meters..
Axios Today
"alzheimer" Discussed on Axios Today
"Drug for alzheimer's. The fda has approved a new alzheimer's drug for the first time in almost twenty years. It's to treat the more than six million americans with alzheimer's disease but the effectiveness of the drug as you. Can you mab or as you. Helm is up for question. Bob harmon covers healthcare. Business for axios. Hey bob so. I think we have to start with just to be clear. The fda has approved this for alzheimer's but it's not clear how effective it is at treating alzheimer's that's right so the company that makes the drug by gen ran clinical trials. One of the clinical trials failed and the other maybe kinda sorta showed some clinical benefits so the fda issued an accelerated approval which basically said. We're going to approve this bites by have to conduct another study to make sure it actually works. What do we know about what the drug actually does. In the trials. The drug failed but budget went back and looked at the data and said okay. We think it actually made some of these brain plaques a decline which they think might help the the progress of alzheimer's they're running with this theory that if you lessen these brain plaques it'll help people recover from alzheimer's again. That's still not really proven. That's why bygones to run another confirmatory trial to see. If it's actually the case bob. How expensive is this. The drug has a list price of fifty six thousand dollars a year and that price is the uninsured price. But since so many alzheimer patients are on medicare medicare likely if it decides to do so. We'll pay a probably a large portion of that. There's so many families who are living with alzheimer's. Why has it been so hard to find treatments. Alzheimer's researchers has been going on for decades. And there's been this slowly building scientific consensus that says maybe this hypothesis about these brain. Plaques is not really something that we should be focusing so much on this drug approval kind of bring some life beck into the argument but again we don't actually know if this drug works. And what does this mean for the fda approval process going forward. This is under a very complex. Fda approval process called accelerated approval If the confirmatory trial doesn't proved works the fda can pull it off the market but that could take a very long time by concil. Make billions of dollars in the meantime. So this just might reignite controversy over whether the accelerated approval pathway is a legitimate pathway. Sea mentioned a few times at its controversial. Besides the drug company are their advocates. Who were pushing for this drug to be approved. Yes many patient advocacy groups involved with alzheimer's. Were really hoping that this will get approved. And and it did. But it's worth noting. A lot of those groups are affiliated with by gen and a toes the line of desperately wanting a treatment for debilitating disease. Something that's just terrible to watch but also balancing that with the science science from what everyone in the community has been saying. It's just not clear that this drug is proven.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"alzheimer" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"Night. So, it's very confusing. It was confusing for people who didn't have Alzheimer's, but she would hang out with them. And I mean, they were just like their own little Rat Pack and it was dead. Really good and as the other day and started getting really paranoid. And I had kind of noticed that my mom was spending less time with her, and I don't know if that was like, my mom's decision or just happen naturally. But the thing that I found funny and like, I don't know, I don't want to say refreshing, but comforting for.
Acupuncture is my Life
"alzheimer" Discussed on Acupuncture is my Life
"Here acupuncture life. We shape follow us again. Whenever we social media platform is so much to learn you. You like many people can contact us to delve deeper into a topic that piqued your interest in another sign. Another sign. someone can beginning. Alzheimer's is simple forgetfulness. Which would include memory lapses like forgiving people's names especially if known it for some time on of and we occasionally proud keys cell phones down certain things even the remote license for those who still watch television and we forget were put it slice now initiative age you you you can still do everyday activities like working socializing driving your vehicle but eventually memory lapses become more frequent and again you wanna get treatment as early as possible for. Have your loved one treatment as early as possible to deal with this problem. You're next fades is memory difficulties. Whereas in this phase memory issues go beyond forgetfulness. They tend to include struggling to remember recently read material such as articles. You've seen online courses folks and so forth also difficulty membranes to stay organized remembering certain things that were planned out you may find yourself saying. Oh my gosh. I forgot i had a meeting was scheduled. Meaning supposed to get together with this person. These are subtle signs. increased by slice difficulty. Retrieving names or even word. You're you're engaging in a conversation someone. You can't complete a sentence because oh my gosh what would fit here. There's a word for what i'm trying to say. If you find yourself saying to yourself pops quite often something to think about. Go sheehan acupuncturist. How many ways. I can tell you go she and acupuncturist thinking of. Oh my gosh. The needles have been hurt. I they don't promote any menu. Initially just my opinion. I can't speak for. Everyone and i won't do that. I won't make that mistake sometimes. You'll feel itchy sensation which is good too. Good thing you acupuncture explain to you. Why contact us. We'll explain to you. Use another component of memory difficulties challenges in the work. Shed social sex. That can be a problem. Is huge another symptom is problems with cognition slice act now in this stage damage to the brain even volvo other aspects of cognition outside of memory which would include difficulty organizing things calculating things difficulties with language. These types of problems can came definitely make it more challenging for an individual to perform their daily tasks seen acupuncture as like problems with cognition can also include being confused about what day of the week it. Now i know this state scare the shit out of a lot of people because there are days where i we most of us who say what dates thursday and in tuesday's oh my god. It feels like feels like if it's thursday don't panic don't panic but But finding yourself constantly attempting to remember what day is or even your location where your changes your sleep patterns and perhaps difficulty choosing the right clothing based on the weather outside problem. These are subtle these assigned. This point is no longer subtle but these are get here. Acupunctures right away or contact acupuncture smelly immediately or if you she a loved one experiences. I don't know what to do. Feel free to contact acupunctures Another sign is less dependent less independence. I should.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"alzheimer" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"And it's important because I'm here to support people and you know help them through the Journey that you're on that I was on that either people will end up on unfortunately. Yeah advice find people to support you. It's a very isolating job and life. You know, you feel lonely you feel like a lot of times you're the only person going through this no one understands what you're going through and it's it's hard and went off. You're lonely and isolated which is ironic right now because isolate yourself, but it's just not a healthy place to be even if you're an introvert you need other people and you need other people that I understand your story and know what you're going through so find your people reach out to them find whether it's from the senior center on Facebook find a Facebook group you like aging parent tribe is open to y'all whether it's a a friend, you know, our our church put me in charge of seniors or elderly and and we were doing a gift baskets for people and they said now is this for the senior or is it for the caregiver? And I said, oh it's for the caregiver the caregiver needs to be loved on because they're loving on so many other people that is so I wanted to give something to them that was just for them and was a joy for them and and the when I woke They said we just had no idea. We don't ever think of how the care and the caregivers need to be loved on so find your people wherever they are. There's people out there that understand life is very true. Local rotary clubs can help my Parkinson's support group. There's Alzheimer's support groups, you know start their that's a really great place to smoke and those people know other things and you use them to network and find other people. I have a funny last story. You said Parkinson's group. I was at my Alzheimer's support group. The facilitator is a godsend on suggesting other support groups other everything classes, whatever support she's aware of them..
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"alzheimer" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"And it's important because I'm here to support people and you know help them through the Journey that you're on that I was on that either people will end up on unfortunately. Yeah advice find people to support you. It's a very isolating job and life. You know, you feel lonely you feel like a lot of times you're the only person going through this no one understands what you're going through and it's it's hard and went off. You're lonely and isolated which is ironic right now because isolate yourself, but it's just not a healthy place to be even if you're an introvert you need other people and you need other people that I understand your story and know what you're going through so find your people reach out to them find whether it's from the senior center on Facebook find a Facebook group you like aging parent tribe is open to y'all whether it's a a friend, you know, our our church put me in charge of seniors or elderly and and we were doing a gift baskets for people and they said now is this for the senior or is it for the caregiver? And I said, oh it's for the caregiver the caregiver needs to be loved on because they're loving on so many other people that is so I wanted to give something to them that was just for them and was a joy for them and and the when I woke They said we just had no idea. We don't ever think of how the care and the caregivers need to be loved on so find your people wherever they are. There's people out there that understand life is very true. Local rotary clubs can help my Parkinson's support group. There's Alzheimer's support groups, you know start their that's a really great place to smoke and those people know other things and you use them to network and find other people. I have a funny last story. You said Parkinson's group. I was at my Alzheimer's support group. The facilitator is a godsend on suggesting other support groups other everything classes, whatever support she's aware of them..