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Defeating Dementia Book
Defeating Dementia: What You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer's and Other Forms of Dementia
" Dr. Richard Furman helps readers understand dementia and Alzheimer's and shows them how to make three powerful lifestyle changes that can help decrease the probability of developing this disease. He explains how eating the right foods, exercising, and sustaining an ideal weight can dramatically reduce the likelihood of developing dementia in the first place, and even how it can slow the progression of the disease in someone who has already received a diagnosis." book review amazon
THE BEST BOOK I READ IN A LONG TIME! I will lend this book to my sister but I want it back. I think this is a good addition to my home library.
A Roadmap for Dementia: A Workbook for Families by the Author of Does My Mom Have Dementia? Paperback – September 6, 2022
by Erik Lande (Author)
The goal of this workbook is to simplify and clarify how best to help and care for your loved ones with dementia. It is designed to accompany the book, "Does My Mom Have Dementia?" but it can also be used as a guide on its own.
This book is the workbook for the book listed below.
Does My Mom Have Dementia?: How to Recognize and Deal with Dementia in Your Loved Ones Paperback – August 31, 2022
Unlock the clues that tell if you should be concerned. Learn how to compassionately support a loved one with dementia and maintain their, and your, quality of life.
This book is easy to read and contains helpful tips to care for your loved one. I read this book and can pass it on to a friend. I don't need to keep it.
Do you want to slow the memory decline in yourself? Do you want to improve your cognitive abilities? Do you think you are struggling with your memory and thinking?
Beating the Dementia Monster: How I stopped the advance of cognitive impairment from Alzheimer's disease Paperback – July 16, 2020
In 2015 Dave Brown experienced significant problems with his thinking and memory. He did poorly on cognitive tests, and he experienced episodes in which he couldn't remember his phone number or zip code of 30 years. He had to stop driving, and he became confused when crossing the street. His doctors sadly informed him that he had mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer's disease. The disease was advancing rapidly. Dave blended the advice he got from his medical care team with his detailed research on the science of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. He developed what he calls The Dementia Toolkit; an approach to generating the physiological changes in the body that can slow, stop and even reverse the advance of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. In this book, he details each piece of the toolkit and explains what science understands about them. Three years later he was excelling on cognitive tests, driving safely, and functioning normally. This book has lots of medical terms that can be difficult to comprehend. I purchased this book and plan on adding it to my home library. I hope to implement some of the ideas from his toolkit into my daily activities. Remember there is no cure for dementia. I don't want people to think this is a cure to memory loss.
Dementia or Alzheimer's: A Daughter's Guide to Home Care from the Early Signs and Onset of Dementia through the Various Alzheimer Stages Kindle Edition
by Robin Gail (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
This book was easy to read and contains some funny situations. The book describes her daughter's perspective of her mother's life with memory loss and dementia in rural Texas until her mother's death. I read this on kindle.
Memory Loss, Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia: A Practical Guide for Clinicians 3rd Edition
This book is written by 2 doctors who provide details on cognitive testing and medical exams to provide a diagnosis of dementia. Includes access to more than two dozen videos that illustrate common tests, clinical signs, and diagnostic features.
This book is more like a college-level textbook with lots of medical terms, medical facts, and information for professional caregivers. I am asking my daughter to read this book so she can have some tools for our future in case I have dementia as I age.
DEMENTIA Types, Symptoms, & Risk Factors: Dementia Guide for Patients, Families, Caregivers, & Medical Professionals
Get the best science in everyday language in this updated first book to focus on all 19 primary dementias.
Recommended for medical professionals, caregivers, and dementia families who want an overview of the 19 dementia types. This book is informative and can help loved ones identify what type of dementia their loved one has and which stage they are in.
Dementia Home Care: How to Prepare Before, During, and After Paperback – April 13, 2021
Dementia caregivers cope with repetitive questions, mood swings, and lost personal space, and live with exhaustion, frustration, and anger. You may not know how to prepare.
This book is perfect for family members who are caring for loved ones in their own homes. This is a great book for anyone who works with the elderly. I absolutely loved the life hacks section in this book. I am implementing most of the suggestions from the life hacks into my daily routine and within my home to help easy my frustration while I care for my dad.
A few suggestions from the book:
Dementia Home Care covers:
Life hacks like camouflaging doors to prevent wandering, or "mom" bags for life's little emergencies and what to stock in it for road trips
Distraction Techniques--Nursery Rhymes, warm blankets, food
Hoarding--Thinning "collections" during sleep periods, removing trash completely from premises, canceling subscriptions, blocking shopping channels
Information needed by emergency medical personnel--what is needed on a medication list, and list of physical ailments
Working with your Pharmacist--drug interaction checks
Memory Aids--memory boards, memory books, flash cards
Powers of Attorney--Power of Attorney Health Care, Durable Power of Attorney
Death--Contacting the Credit Bureaus to add a Death Watch when a family member dies, reporting a death to Social Security, obtaining death certificates
Distinguishing the difference between a hallucination and delusion
The empty-nester experience after the loss of a loved one--to a nursing facility or to death
The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) Paperback – August 10, 2021
Copyrighted 40 years ago, this book has practical everyday ideas to improve your ability to care for your loved one. This book shares the experience of a dementia patient in a 24-hour period. To the dementia patient, one day feels like 36 hours of turmoil, racing thoughts, confusion, and uncertainty.
This paperback book contains new information on a range of topics including home care aides, helpful apps to use on your phone, and preventative techniques to utilize with your loved one. One of the most useful sections in this book is the practical advice for avoiding caregiver burnout. I have been caring for my dad for 2 years in my home. I have hired home health aides to stay with my dad so I can babysit my grandchildren and go to doctor's appointments. Learning not to feel guilty when it comes to my own health and the things I want to do did not come easy. It took me months to realize that my life and health are important too. If I am sick, I cannot care for my dad properly.
This book also has a new format with a 2 column design to help you locate facts more quicker. I purchased this book 10 years ago and just purchased the new edition. I plan on adding these books to my home library. I recommend reading this book before any other Dementia books. This gives you a baseline of information to understand the disease of dementia.
This was one of the first books that made sense to me about Dementia and what my dad is thinking and why he does some of the things he does.
I read this book in one day. It has several stories about different people with dementia and how they progressed with the disease. This is perfect for the family to read and discuss as a group. The ideas and thoughts gave me a different insight into the disease and how my dad .feels.copies of the book and shared them with family
I purchased 2
Eat to Beat Alzheimer's: Delicious Recipes and New Research to Prevent and Slow Dementia Kindle Edition
paperback also available
The delicious food choices and easy-to-prepare recipes in this book are based on the latest findings showing that they can help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s and other conditions like it, or prevent them entirely. Readers will gain the knowledge and tools to take charge of their health by incorporating tasty, healing foods into their diet.
The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline Kindle Edition
by Dale Bredesen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4 1/2 stars
In this hopeful book, Dale Bredesen, MD, offers a chance to anyone looking to prevent and possibly reverse Alzheimer's Disease, memory loss, and cognitive decline. Indicating that Alz Disease is not one condition, as it is currently treated, but three separate diseases. The End of Alzheimer’s outlines 36 metabolic factors (micronutrients, hormone levels, sleep) that can trigger "downsizing" in the brain. The protocol shows us how to rebalance these factors using lifestyle modifications like taking B12, eliminating gluten, or improving oral hygiene. Ten participants were part of the first study utilizing the program and changing lifestyle activities. 9 out of the 10 had significant improvement in memory and cognitive abilities within 3-6 months of using this program. I believe more studies are needed to verify the findings.
I hope this book doesn't give false hope to loved ones who are struggling to care for family members. Lifestyle changes can be difficult to implement especially when someone is suffering from dementia.
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