Alzheimer's Magazine - Preserving Your Memory - Fall 09

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Features


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Contents

5 From the Editors Desk Fall brings transition, and weve got ideas or satime as you take care o what needs to be done.

Preserving Your Memoryreceived a

Bronze Award in the Health Promotio

Disease Prevention InormationMag

category at the 2008 National Health

Inormation AwardsSM.


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Saving Time, Savori

For many people, all is a avorite time o year. but its still not too cold to enjoy the outdoogardens wraps up, while winter gardens are pla

In this issue oPreserving Your Memory, we look aproviding care to your loved onesand to yoursel

From the Editors Desk


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News Briefs

Mildly High Cholesterol in

The Latest News oand Brain Health


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beginning. A point system rewardedthose who participated in any o theseactivities daily with 7 points, those whoparticipated a ew times a week with 4points, and those who participated only

once per week with 1 point.Tose who developed dementia av-eraged 7 points per day. But every ad-ditional activity a person participatedin was associated with delayed onset orapid memory loss by 0.18 years. Partici-pating in 11 activities per week was as-

Biomarke

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identies tmay be us words, thespinal fuidlikelihood disease in pimpairmen


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In-Home C

Who, what, wh

Mary heresa erry Vasquez,RN has seen Alzheimers


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Not every caregiverwill be able to givecare remotely, likeMary. Even when apatient is living in

a nursing home, aamily member orcaregiver outsidethe nursing home

who can makeregular visits isoten required


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available to you.(See sidebar onpage 11 or Website addresses.)

In addition tolearning thehome care basics,you can becomeamiliar with the

ways in whichyour role will


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Certain situations call or a combination o some othe ollowing:

Companionship: I your loved one needs or

enjoys the company o another person, you can hsomeone to provide companion services. his percan help supervise while also engaging the patienin conversation, taking a walk around the block o

working a puzzle. A companion can sit with the pwhile the in-home amily caregiver is elsewhere ihome or is away or brie periods during the day


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Memory

and Agingon Exhibit


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As with all o the Exploratoriums oerings,Memodesigned or students and adults alike. Visitors actualget to do experiments at the exhibit. By ocusing on tphenomena that are being described,individuals o all ages have opportunities toexperience the science and learn about theirmemory directly.

A Fresh Look at AgingAnother exhibit currently making the

rounds hails rom Portlands OregonMuseum o Science & Industry (OMSI)


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Eight years since her mother died o AlzheimerB. Lynn Goodwin still remembers the stress being her caregiver, o driving her mom to do

appointments, cooking her meals and paying her billstask was daunting, and Goodwin ound hersel increisolated as she poured her energies into caring or her

echnically, I had nothing I had to do other than to work and honor my volunteer tutoring and writingcommitments, says Goodwin, now 60, o Danville, I could have given all o that up and simply been preor her I had no husband or kids and I elt selish be


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While there is no typical proile o someone whocommits elder abuse, certain actors do raise the risk abuse. According to Homan, many people who abuthe elderly are rustrated, stressed caregivers. hey tencome rom amilies with a history o violence and mabeen abused as children. Many abusers also suer romore personal problems such as mental and emotionadisorders, alcoholism and drug addiction, and inanctroubles. Some researchers have ound too, that older

who are in worse health are more likely to be abused those in good health


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and relie. he best thing oranybody is to become part oa support group, Somers says.You can connect with othersin your same situation, andyou can vent some o yourrustrations.

Takeadvantageofcommunityservices.

hese same organizations


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Mary Ellen Geist, author o Measure of the Hea

A Fathers Alzheimers, a Daughters Return


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longer drive, tie his shoes or remember much o anyMary Ellen and her two sisters knew her parentsneeded helptheir ather hadreached the advanced stages o

Alzheimers and their motherwas ghting her own battleagainst exhaustion and sorrow.Because her sisters had theirown young amilies, MaryEllen volunteered. She tookwhats commonly called the


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entries and were online in the middle o the night.In the United States, there are 10 million o us tak

care o someone with dementia or Alzheimers, and thall talk to each other at night on the Internet becausecant leave. [Teyre] insomniac caregivers, she adds.

FromBlogtoBookSoon, those writings took the orm o a memoir. I

like my ather reached through his Alzheimers and gme the git o thisbook she adds


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Ask the Experts

Time-Saving Tips

Do you haFisher Ce

1-800-AL

for Alzheim

New York

A visit to the doctor with an Alzheimers patiencan go a long way to saving time and trouble.


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Food and Nutrition

Most kids learninghow to cook can be

A Taste o HomEven as Joyce Chen, the world-famous chef oson Stephen was there for her. He carries on h


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It occurred to me that my Mom hadalways wanted to do Peking raviolis asa rozen-ood item, Stephen says. SoI ound a company in Caliornia thatcan make 40,000 dumplings per hour.For us to grow our business, we had to

have a company that could ollow ourrecipes, do good quality control anddeliver on schedule.

Te Peking ravioli line debuted inBoston-area stores ater the restaurantclosed in 1998 Ater that and beore


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Healthy Recipes

Minute Scallion PancIngredients

1 egg

2/3 cup our

1/3 cup scallion (minced, about tw

1 strip bacon (minced or 1 heapin


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Caregiver Voices

My wie, Inta Ezergailisshe wrote poems about her own moth

Well Versed


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Te door few open as i it had been blown o its hinghand grenade. She stood in the doorway, wearing her bathrobe and slippers, now a mere 80 pounds.

Telma was once a beautiul and talented lady; nlooked as i she were homeless. She had lived a lie o sopportunity and extravagant material items, but none mattered now. She can no longer remember the lie sGrandma now has Alzheimers.

Telma was talented in her day She paint-

Grandma Is Not Hom

When


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Fisher Center Research

At the Fisher Center orAlzheimers Research Foundation,we are unding innovative Al-zheimers research that is begin-ning to make serious headway

Plain Talk About Alz


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Christina Weber, a 28-year-old business-development specialist in New York City,saw a chance to cross an item o her

Take Action

Taking It on or LucIn commemoration of her beloved grandfatherraise money for the Fisher Center for Alzheime


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Fitness

Regular physical activitycan keep you strong

Fitness in a FlasOlder Adults a


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Sit and Be Fit Works Wonders

I have appreciated your senior exercise program, Sit ahave worked in nursing homes for 12 years and part oresidents. The diversity in your exercises helps keep the

fun. Your exercises help so much to maintain a qualityworking with stroke, amputation, arthritis, Parkinsonas well as age difference40s to 101. The exercises arbeing so dedicated to seniors. Exercising helps immeasuof their lives.


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Long-term Planning

Recently, I spoke to a group oseniors Someone in attendance

he legamuch the s

Elder Law AttornOer Senior Citiz


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Brain-BoUse it or lose it. The mesmuscles, they will no longercourse, the brain is not a m

to light that mental workouother puzzles, can help waroffer a variety of different tyvarious skills involving memtion, and, we hope, also pro

(Ans

Keeping Your Mind Sharp


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We have provided two crosswords here to sharpen your puzzlskills. Start with the one on the left, which is the easier puzzle. Inthis one we have provided solving aids, such as the number owords in multi-word entries. The puzzle on the right is amedium-level puzzle and the number of words in the answerhave been eliminated. The second puzzle is also a thematipuzzle: the title Find a Hobby is a hint. Have fun testing youknowledge while doing something thats good for you!

BRAIN-BOOST

(Answers on page 37)


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LICHTENSTEIN

MAGRITTE

The names of the famous artists listed below can be fo

When you have found them all, read the leftover letters

BRAIN-BOO

HIDDEN-MESS


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Match These

Dropline

1e, 2k, 3g, 4l, 5i, 6c, 7a, 8j, 9d, 10f, 11h,12b.

Too often we enjoy the comfort ofopinion without the discomfort of thought.


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and waiting or you.

Packsomethingforyourlovedoneto eat and drink, and a un activity

that you can share.

Takealonganotherfamilymemberor riend who can help you both. Itis especially important to have thehelp o another who can attend to

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(ips, continued rom page 22)


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Zachary & Elizabeth M. Fisher Center

or Alzheimers Research Foundation

West 46th Street & 12th Avenue

New York, NY 10036

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Preserving Your Memory:

The Magazine of Health and Hope

Since 1995, the Fisher Center Foundation, a

501(c)(3) nonproft organization, has been

providing hope and help to the public by unding

research into the cause, care and cure o

Alzheimers disease, and creating much-needed

educational programs. Over 5 million people

currently suer rom Alzheimers disease. The

Fisher Center Foundation recognizes a need to

increase awareness o the disease as well as

educate the public on Alzheimers research

and patient care.

To subscribe to Preserving Your Memory, please see reverse side.

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