When Is The Right Time?

When is the Right Time to Place a Loved-One Who Suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease/Dementia in Rest Home Care? The mid stage of Alzheimer’s/Dementia requires twenty-four hour care. This may be the point when you consider institutionalization. To determine when you...

Faces of Alzheimers

Faces of Alzheimer’s: Stricken artist did self-portraits until he no longer could recall his own face. When well-known British artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed in 1995 with Alzheimer’s disease, he started a series of self-portraits to help him deal with...

Brain Power and Improving Your Memory Naturally With Foods

Brain Power and Improving Your Memory Naturally With Foods Our brains are powerful organic machines. They control all thought, movement, and sensation while calculating and reacting with blistering speed. They store an immense amount of data as images, text, and...

Verbal Communication – Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or Dementia

As the disease progresses, the person with Alzheimer’s disease may develop problems in expressing what he is thinking, his needs or wishes. He may have difficulty naming things or following directions because he cannot understand your instructions or cannot...

Three New Exciting Developments in Health

Check out these recent findings from the field of medicine. Scientists seem to discover more about how to stay healthy every day. Three new exciting developments in health • Peppermint. Some studies suggest that peppermint oil may be useful in relieving irritable...

How Do You Choose The ER or A Clinic?

Hospital emergency rooms are stretched thin by almost 130 million visits a year. Many of these visits are triggered by complaints that could be handled more efficiently at same-day clinics or pharmacy care centers. How do you know which to choose:   ER vs clinic? ER...

Reiki for Alzheimer’s Patients and Caregivers

The many complicated aspects of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia make caring for patients and their caregivers a challenge. Unfortunately, Alzheimer’s currently has no known cure. This makes it a disease that ruins lives both physically and...

What Once Was Thought to be Good For You Now Isn’t

Our knowledge of what’s healthy and what’s dangerous is changing and growing all the time You might be surprised to learn about some substances that physicians once thought to be beneficial to everyone’s health. From the Yahoo News website comes this trio of formerly...