To demonstrate just how hard he said the test really was, he went on TV to recite, over & over, the words that he had been asked to remember in the right order: “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.”

…The #MontrealCognitiveAssessment is meant to test for signs of #dementia, #Alzheimer’s disease or other conditions, but the #Trump talked about it on Fox News… as if he had aced an IQ test proving his intelligence. Experts said that reflected a misunderstanding about the purpose & value of the exam.

Presidents & those who would be president often boast of their qualifications — their education, their experience, their achievements. And then there is President #Trump, who is boasting about his #dementia test.

By Peter Baker
Old but considering the attacks on #Biden …
Published July 23, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/person-woman-man-camera-tv-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2023-09-10
Mom's first words this morning: Where are we?
Leading to a long reorientation session.
She accepts the information but doesn't have any personal knowledge of most facts of her life.
She saays:
I don't know what I think
I don't know where I am
I don't know where I'm going
I don't know where I've been

(Quick, hand me a guitar!)

There's no alarm or distress, just wonder at having no memory of the past or grip on the present.

#ElderCare #Dementia #OldOld #MemoryLoss
@caregivers

I wrote about the pilot starting back in April, but now 50 robotic pets have been distributed in East Sussex to help people with dementia.

#GoodNews #Sussex #Dementia #Loneliness #Robots #Robotic #Pets #Animals #Dogs #Cats #Elderly #Care

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-66717487

New Yorker: A Departure from Reality https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-departure-from-reality #NewYorker #Culture/TheWeekendEssay #Immigration #Immigrants #Grieving #Dementia #Parents #Mothers #Vietnam #Dying #Death

Oh, antipsychotics of power,
How are you used so often this hour?
Though meant for your use
You're being abused
To ease the pain of dementia's shower

#dementia #antipsychotics #medication #overprescription #ode #poetry

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/antipsychotic-drugs-are-overprescribed-to-people-with-dementia

Recently, he has been able to offer fewer words. I realize I am sitting there, taking it all in and wishing that this moment could go on forever. That it would never end.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/on-vacation-in-mexico-with-my-husband-and-alzheimers-fdd131084899?sk=bf0d7ebcb278732f9750a78d10bbcde8

#LGBTQ #Travel #Vacation #Mexico #Alzheimers #Dementia #Loss

Kun ikää on 70+, niin erilaiset dementian torjumiskeinot kiinnostavat. Sanaristikoiden lisäksi olen ottanut työkalupakkiin myös värityskirjat :-) #dementia

A new crowdsourced competition seeks more robust early indicators of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias using analytics powered by artificial intelligence.

https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=45180

#News #Press #Science #Business #AlzheimersDisease #Dementia #Diagnostics #ArtificialIntelligence #Algorithms #DataScience #Aging #NIH #Challenge #Competition #Crowdsourcing

@Nature Higher levels of a type of #airpollution called PM2.5 were linked to more #dementia cases over time. The strongest links were seen for PM2.5 from agriculture and wildfires. Reducing such exposures might help lower the incidence of dementia.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/air-pollution-linked-dementia-cases

#Epidemiology #PublicHealth #neuroscience #Dementia is a loss of thinking, remembering, and reasoning skills. It’s not a normal part of aging. But the risk of developing dementia grows as people get older. Millions of Americans, along with their families and caregivers, are living with the effects of dementia. This number is expected to continue to grow as the population ages.

You'd have to be a fool to intentionally plan to develop #cancer or #dementia

You'd have to be cruel to intentionally harm children

You'd have to be ignorant to *want* to #smoke tobacco

You'd have to be ignorant to want to inhale traffic & wood smoke air pollution.

And yet, many people do want to smoke & do want to own combustion engine vehicles & wood stoves

When people are not acting in their own best interests, we need to ask who is misinforming them?

#industry #adverts #psychology

On September 7, 2011, Daughter of Horror was screened at the L’Estrange Festival. Here’s some Adrienne Barrett art to mark the occasion!
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#DaughterOfHorror #Dementia #JohnParker #AdrienneBarrett #ExperimentalFilm #Horror #HorrorFilm #HorrorArt #AvantGardeFilm #ExpressionistFilm #TCMUnderground #Art #MovieArt #MovieHistory

Older adults who regularly use the internet have half the risk of dementia compared to non-regular users

'Participants using the internet between 6 minutes and 2 hours per day had the lowest risk of dementia'

Oh! What about those of us who *don't* use it for 2 hours a day?!

#science #medicine #health #dementia #internet

https://www.psypost.org/2023/09/older-adults-who-regularly-use-the-internet-have-half-the-risk-of-dementia-compared-to-non-regular-users-183597

#Internet #usage and the prospective #risk of #dementia: A population-based cohort study
https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.18394

Technology-Based Interventions to Address Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Informal Dementia Caregivers: A Scoping Review

"...#Technology-based interventions addressing #social isolation and loneliness in informal #dementia #caregivers have the potential to overcome barriers to low uptake of services and withdrawal from interventions and improve the sustainability of the interventions..."

#Health #Care

https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(23)00713-2/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

@dangrsmind #Seniors #Aging #Dementia

This includes me. Gottaa keep those brain cells working. 😉

A qualitative study of practices that exceed expectation

Great insights from Prof. Ann Dadich & Team

"Brilliant aged care occurs when primacy is awarded to an older person's well being; their changing needs and preferences are accommodated; and—rather than encourage dependence on others—older people are enabled to maintain their identity, autonomy, agency & dignity."

#AgedCare #BrilliantCare #PositiveDeviance #Dementia

@ben_hr

https://benhr.xyz/2023/08/31/understand-who-this.html

Causal evidence that herpes zoster vaccination prevents a proportion of dementia cases | medRxiv https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.23.23290253v1 “We then show that receiving the #HerpesZosterVaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis over a follow-up period of seven years by 3.5 percentage points (95% CI: 0.6 – 7.1, p=0.019), corresponding to a 19.9% relative reduction in the occurrence of #dementia.”
#Shingles #HSV

Eleven factors used
More dementia predicted soon
Accuracy rate high

#dementia #screeningtool #ukresearch #haiku #poetry

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/screening-tool-uses-11-risk-factors-to-predict-dementia-with-up-to-80-accuracy