We often are told that we need to live in the present, to put the past behind us and move on. For those of us with short term memory loss, this is not a suggestion, but a way of life. Wonder what it is like to live like this?
I am constantly being reminded of my memory loss. People do not purposely set out to remind me. My appearance is normal. My speech, most of the time, is normal. My thought processes have lowered from the genius range to the normal range of intelligence. It is easy for...
A new study published online today in the journal Alzheimer's and Dementia proves very interesting to me. Because I have vascular dementia,... Read more »
After seven years of advocating about the importance of early diagnosis of any type of dementia (Alzheimer's is one type), I would have to... Read more »
I have written a few articles on listening to elders and keeping their stories alive. I wrote about it for this site in a blog that was... Read more »
Elders exposed to hospital stays can become very disoriented, to the point of delirium, which is difficult to distinguish from dementia.... Read more »
A new study published today provides some much needed good - there's a downward trend in the rate of "cognitive impairment" among people 70... Read more »
(Ivanhoe Newswire) Get out and socialize to keep your memory in tact. A new study finds elderly people in the U.S. who have an active social life... Read more »
A busy social life may help ward off memory loss, a new study suggests. Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health studied a group of elderly... Read more »
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- While research shows diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease, having both conditions might actually slow the memory... Read more »
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Memory is your mind's ability to keep and remember information. Everyone has mild memory loss from time to time. You go to another room to get... Read more »
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