MEDICATION ‘WORSENS ALZHEIMER’S’

Anti-psychotic drugs commonly given to Alzheimer’s patients often make their condition worse, a UK study suggests.
Neuroleptics provided no benefit for patients with mild behavioural problems, but were associated with a marked deterioration in verbal skills.
The research focused on 165 people with advanced Alzheimer’s who were living in nursing homes in four British cities.
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Fact Sheet : Dementia, Care-giving and Controlling Frustration

The Stresses Of Care-Giving

 

 

Caring for an individual with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia can be challenging and, at times, overwhelming. Frustration is a normal and valid emotional response to many of the difficulties of being a caregiver. While some irritation may be part of everyday life as a caregiver, feeling extreme frustration can [...]

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Offer The Help That Is Wanted

“Never offer the kind of help that disempowers. Never insist on offering the help you think is needed. Let the person or people in need know all that you have to give — then listen to what they want; see what they are ready to receive.
Offer the help that is wanted. Often, the person or [...]

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The Meaning Of Life

 

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
By Ken Hudgins

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Life Is Too Short To Be Little

“Life is too short to be little.”

   -   Benjamin Disraeli   - 
 

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Is Our Happiness Preordained?

Though most of us spend a lifetime pursuing happiness, new research is showing that that goal may be largely out of our control. Two new studies this month add to a growing body of evidence that factors like genes and age may impact our general well-being more than our best day-to-day attempts at joy.
 
In one [...]

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WHAT IS YOUR ‘TRIGGER FOOD’?

Piling on the pounds?  Blame it on your ‘trigger food’.
Studies in the United States have found that eating trigger foods – foods as common as oranges, cucumbers, fish or wheat – can cause you to stay overweight.
They could also be the reason behind your migraine, asthma, fatigue or digestive problems.
Food intolerance is not a new [...]

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5 MILLION MAY GET DIABETES

One in four Malaysian adults may develop diabetes in their lifetime
This means that five million people are at risk of becoming victims of the silent killer that can lead to blindness, gangrene and kidney failure.
The disease often afflicts the overweight, who make up nearly 43.1 per cent of Malaysians.
Malaysian Association for the Study of [...]

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