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Leah

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posted 05/05/2008, comments (2)

Dementia and Travel- They Mix!

Dementia does not stop me from going on vacation-though I would not be able to function without the support of my husband. Let me explain. We have just gotten back from a five night cruise to the western Caribbean. In the distant past, before I married my husband, I was able to travel well by myself. I followed... Read more Chevron

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Carol Bradley Bursack

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posted 05/05/2008, comments (2)

Study Shows Mixing Dementia Drugs with Incontinence Drugs Can Cause Decline

Why am I not surprised? A study has shown that two classes of drugs often given, in tandem, to people with dementia - a population that also tends to have problems with incontinence - are together causing more rapid functional decline. In "Dual Treatment of Incontinence and Dementia Associated with Functional Decline," a study... Read more Chevron

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posted 04/28/2008, comments (2)

Pick’s Disease- What You Need To Know

A media release from University of California, Berkeley titled, "More clues to midlife dementia that erases personality," was to me, very enlightening. I'd read a bit about Pick's disease and had some idea of the part of the brain affected. But I wasn't educated in the term frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), nor was I clear on the... Read more Chevron

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posted 04/21/2008, comments (14)

Dementia Dilemma

It saddens me to say that just saying the word DEMENTIA creates a self-limiting prophesy. That may be an apparent truth...but it is not the whole story. Unfortunately, most people do not understand what dementia is. People do not know that dementia has many different faces. This saddens me because I was diagnosed... Read more Chevron

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posted 04/16/2008, comments (4)

No Need To Fret (Written With Some Twang!)

(I would like to write using my dialect today...which means I will be writing words more closely to the way I say them than to how they are actually spelled. It will exercise a part of my brain which hasn't been used as much- and exercising a part of yours at the same time!) I'm havin' the "used ta's today...I used to do... Read more Chevron

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