7 archives found for "dementia"

What if I told you that the right kind of sound or music could reduce pain and stress, help with symptoms of depression and schizophrenia, improve the social skills of children with autism, and even aid folks with dementia? Welcome to another installment in my “What is EcoMedicine?” series, [...]

Welcome to the next installment of our biweekly series on the many different kinds of nature therapy. This week’s topic is gardening for dementia. So what is gardening for dementia? Unlike some of the other topics we’ve covered, this one is a little easier to guess the meaning behind; [...]

Yes, we are aging. Every day. That’s a simple fact of life. But we’re also living longer than ever before and we have a remarkable opportunity to enjoy our longevity by making good choices and paying attention to the role of healthy cognitive function in our overall ability to [...]

Food and dementia have a complex relationship. Food of course is a broad term for anything edible, except maybe Soylent; dementia is also a broad term for any disease process that reduces the ability to think and reason, gradually destroying the brain. Food also falls into eating patterns [...]

As many as a third of people over 65 take anticholinergic drugs—shown to increase risk for dementia, including Alzheimer’s–significantly.  But most don’t know it. These drugs do have short term benefits, but many people do not even know that they are anti-cholinergic drugs. [...]

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Not bad for a simple B vitamin, widely available and inexpensive. 818 healthy people ages 50 to 75 took either 800 micrograms of folic acid/day or placebo for 3 years in a new Dutch dementia study, the abstract is below. On memory tests, the folate-takers were 5.5 years younger, [...]