#Dementia

#Dementia

A growing body of evidence shows that retirees who continue working part-time tend to live longer, healthier lives than those who fully retire. It sounds counterintuitive in a culture that glorifies early retirement and endless leisure, but the data tells a compelling story about what really keeps us thriving as we age.

Two years ago, I noticed changes in my friend's ability to carry on conversations and her lack of awareness of current events. After COVID's isolation, she and her husband seldom left their house, and her husband spent more time on his computer. My friend's calls to me became more frequent and repetitive even though she had no news or reason to phone. She repeated the same three or four stories and often within a five-minute span.

An elderly woman with dementia has been left terrified to leave home after she was muggedjust yards from her front door in east London. Katherine Stockdale, 84, was targeted on Sturry Street in Poplar on Saturday, January 24, while walking back from the local market with her trolley. CCTV footage, which has been circulating on social media, appears to show a woman stopping Katherine in the street and asking her something.

This past month, many members of the American public (the sane part, at least) have been united in our wishful thinking: they want that man gone, and it can't happen soon enough. Last week, after Tr*mp's decaying hand (and an emergency Air Force One stop) raised everyone's hopes, it seems we're back where we started: wishing, hoping, and praying for an end to the madness we're currently living through.

We are heartbroken to share the passing of our beautiful wee mummy. We kindly ask for privacy as our family grieves during this difficult time.

It should have been a turning point many, many years ago when we learned the same thing with Jeff Astle and not much has happened between that time and now. Hopefully, my dad's legacy will not just be what he gave football on the pitch but what we can learn from this and make sure that this really horrible problem isn't a problem for future generations.

But back to New York: the mix of nostalgia, pace and emotional honesty that the actors allude to during our chat sits at the heart of The Best You Can. Sedgwick plays Cynthia, a tightly wound New York urologist whose world turns upside-down as her husband starts showing signs of dementia. Bacon's character, Stan-a home security guard estranged from his daughter-stumbles into her life after a late-night break-in, an encounter that sparks an unexpected mid-life connection.

Brodie earned his degree in photography from Parsons The New School for Design in New York. Rooted in personal and cultural experiences, Brodie's work explores identity, texture, and emotion through both still and moving images. He is also the co-founder of Forgotten Lands, an independent publisher dedicated to authentic Caribbean art, culture, and dialogue. Brodie began this series in 2020. It focuses on long-overlooked health diagnoses within his own family, specifically his father's dementia and the passing of his eldest and only sister.

This spring we suddenly had to move my in-laws to assisted living. My mother-in-law's dementia was spiraling, and we discovered my father-in-law also has something similar. They had done a good job covering up what a mess their lives had become the past few years, and now we're slowly unspooling it. Dear Not Thinking Clearly, My husband has power of attorney, both financial and medical. We're through all the medical hoops, and I'm now looking at their finances.

The nurse, Helle Wictor, contacted the Innovation department at Helsingborg City where she worked, and what is now Optisense Care, has emerged from that work. The startup focuses on developing a smart, radar-equipped toilet seat, under the name ZenSeat, that uses AI to monitor bowel movements, helping caregivers detect constipation early in dementia patients and prevent serious health complications. Is it possible to invent something that alerts the nursing staff if a patient hasn't pooped? said Helle Wictor, the initiator of the idea

Perhaps second only to the fear of death itself, the one thing I've heard business leaders admit that they fear most is the idea of losing their memory. And that's why I've latched on with gusto to a recent study out of Harvard University, among other institutions, that suggests a simple, straightforward way to improve cognitive health. A Mediterranean-style diet

Sometimes, the symptoms occur quite late into the evening, said Dr. Victor Diaz, a neurologist at Orlando Health Neuroscience Institute. Approximately 1 in 5 people with dementia experience sundowning. It affects people with different forms of dementia, like Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia, Diaz said. "Episodes can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, and in some cases, can extend into the night."

A 95-year-old nursing home resident suffering from dementia has been arrested in Brooklyn. She has been charged with murder after authorities say she fatally attacked another elderly woman at the same facility during a late-night altercation. Police identified the accused as Galina Smirnova, who was taken into custody on Tuesday afternoon. Investigators allege she beat 89-year-old Holocaust survivor Nina Kravtsov with a piece of metal broken off from a wheelchair inside the Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center on Coney Island.