Jobs After 60 – My Segment from Charlotte Today I addressed Jobs After 60 on Charlotte Today. Here is the intro. Many people are working well beyond the traditional retirement age, partly out of necessity and partly because they still want to contribute and are not ready to retire. Whether...
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Better Hygiene, Higher Risk of Alzheimer’s – Huh!! – Smilecast 80
Better Hygiene Linked to Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s – Hear This Out! With all the emphasis on hand hygiene to prevent infection and the whole hullababllo over hospital acquired infections comes this story. Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Department of Anthropology, University of Utah have suggested that better...
Caffeine Benefits – It May Fight Alzheimer’s Disease – Smilecast 79
Caffeine Benefits – May Fight Alzheimer’s? Possibly. Tau deposits, along with beta-amyloid plaques, are among the characteristic features of Alzheimer’s disease. These protein deposits disrupt the communication of the nerve cells in the brain and contribute to their degeneration. A team led by Dr. Christa E. Müller from the University...
Cocoa Extract for Memory – May Hold Off Dementia – Smilecast 78
Cocoa Extract For Memory – May Prevent Alzheimer’s Talk about a mouth-watering study. The benefits of cocoa extract for memory has been seen to reduce damage to nerve pathways seen in Alzheimer’s. Researchers have found that a specific preparation of cocoa-extract called Lavado may reduce damage long before people develop...
Middle-aged Neurotic Women Higher Risk of Alzheimer’s – Smilecast 77
Neurotic Women and Alzheimer’s The Washington Post reports that middle-aged neurotic women who worry a lot may have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease later in life, citing a study in the American Academy of Neurology’s journal, Neurology. The paper notes that researchers at the University of Gothenburg in...
The Working Family Caregiver – from Healing Ties Radio – Smilecast 76
The Working Family Caregiver Balancing work and family caregiving is a daunting task. I was a guest on Chris MacLellan podcast, Healing Ties, earlier this year where we talked about the issue of the working family caregiver. Caregiving costs employers $34 billion annually. And you may be surprised to know...
Spice Turmeric Could Fight Alzheimer’s – Smilecast 75
Spice Turmeric Could Fight Alzheimer’s (Vanderbilt University) Curcumin, a natural product found in the spice turmeric, has been used by many Asian cultures for centuries, and a study indicates a close chemical analog of curcumin has properties that may make it useful as a treatment for the brain disease. “Curcumin...
The Benefits of Singing – Better Recall for Those with Dementia – Smilecast 74
The Benefits of Singing Instructions to Dementia Patients Researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine conducted a study to see if Alzheimer’s patients would be better able to recall new information if it was sung to them. Alzheimer’s patients and healthy control subjects were visually presented with the lyrics...
Alzheimer’s Association Trial Match – Smilecast 73
Alzheimer’s Association Trial Match Every 70 seconds someone in America develops Alzheimer’s. In 2050, experts project there will be nearly one million new cases annually. The Alzheimer’s Association has developed TrialMatch, a confidential interactive tool that provides comprehensive clinical trial information and an individualized trial-matching service for people with Alzheimer’s...
Homebound Seniors Twice as Likely to Develop Alzheimer’s – Smilecast 72
Homebound Seniors More at Risk for Dementia Homebound seniors are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as more active individuals. Investigators at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago followed 1,294 seniors from two separate studies. None of the study subjects exhibited dementia symptoms at the beginning of either study....