GPS tracking devices help find those with Alzheimer’s.
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There are GPS devices on the market today that will help keep tabs on someone who wanders off.
Category: Health & Illness
Care navigating for caregivers. “From caring comes courage.”
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Imagine a registered nurse as your personal advocate and navigator in your health journey.
Almost 50% of caregivers to loved ones with dementia experience distress, report says.
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“You’re constantly strategizing and planning just to make life happen,” Caregiver Catherine Kelly
Ageing and health status: An interesting study
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We tend to lose sight of the fact that, while the population is aging, seniors are healthier than any time in history: 85 is the new 65.
As the population ages, caregiving is also becoming a hot-button issue.
Mindfulness Exercises for Dementia. A Guide for Professionals and Family Caregivers.
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You are cordially invited to the GTA book launch where Eleanor Silverberg will describe and demonstrate how the successful practice of mindfulness was modified to accommodate people living with Alzheimer’s disease or other related dementia. This will be a fantastic book launch, don’t miss it.
Integrating caregivers in health planning can assist in managing chronic diseases
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Read about how family caregivers often play a key role in the delivery of health care services.
Do you know what self-directed care is?
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“In contrast to conventional home care programs in which care is managed and delivered by professionals or agencies on behalf of the client, in self managed programs the client takes a more active and central role both in defining needs and in determining how those needs should be met,”
Canada’s first ‘dementia village’ to open next year.
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The Village will be home to 78 people with dementia. Their care will be provided by 72 specially trained staff.
Blocking enzyme ‘dramatically reverses’ Alzheimer’s in mice
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“To our knowledge, this is the first observation of such a dramatic reversal of amyloid deposition in any study of Alzheimer’s disease mouse models […] Our study provides genetic evidence that pre-formed amyloid deposition can be completely reversed after sequential and increased deletion of BACE1 in the adult.”
Riqiang Yan
For Dementia Caregivers, Going it Alone is Not an Option
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National Caregivers Alliance estimates that up to 70 per cent of caregivers have significant symptoms of depression.
