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What Is the Best Diet for Brain Health? | Dr. Gil Carvalho (opens the original)
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What we eat can influence our health, but when it comes to protecting the brain and lowering dementia risk, nutrition advice can often feel confusing or contradictory. Which eating patterns have the strongest evidence behind them, and how much can diet really affect cognitive health over time?Dr. Gil Carvalho is a medical doctor and scientist who has a YouTube channel called Nutrition Made Simple, where he reviews the evidence behind popular nutrition claims and explains what the studies do and
How to Know When It's Time for More Dementia Care, According to a Long-Term Care Expert | Cory Fosco (opens the original)
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For families caring for a loved one with dementia, deciding when home care is no longer enough is rarely simple. The signs are often gradual — a missed medication here, a stove left on there — and knowing when to seek more support, whether through in-home help, adult day care, or a residential community, can feel overwhelming without a clear framework for how to approach it.Cory Fosco has spent 34 years working in long-term care, with experience in social work, admissions, skilled nursing, senio
The Stimulated Mind: How Everyday Habits Shape Brain Health | Dr. Tommy Wood (opens the original)
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Brain health is shaped by more than age or genetics. The way we exercise, eat, sleep, manage stress, support our metabolism, and stay engaged with the world around us may all influence how well the brain functions over time.Dr. Tommy Wood, associate professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at the University of Washington, studies brain health across the lifespan, from the neurodevelopment of infants born preterm to cognitive aging in older adults. He directs preclinical research in the Universit
What to Remember When You Are Forgetting: Living Well With Dementia | Dr. Zaldy Tan (opens the original)
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A dementia diagnosis can raise difficult questions about what comes next: How do you know what changes to expect? How should families prepare? And how can someone continue to live well as memory loss progresses?Those are some of the questions Dr. Zaldy Tan addresses in his new book, “What to Remember When You’re Forgetting: How to Live and Thrive With Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias.” Tan, director of the Memory and Healthy Aging Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a professo
How Urinary Tract Infections Trigger Delirium in People With Dementia | Dr. Shouri Lahiri (opens the original)
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Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infections in older adults, but in people living with dementia, they can trigger a sudden and dramatic change in behavior and cognition. A UTI that might cause mild discomfort in a younger, healthier person can instead set off delirium — an acute, fluctuating state of confusion — in someone with Alzheimer's or a related dementia.Dr. Shouri Lahiri is director of the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit and Neurocritical Care Research at Cedars
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