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How many of you have spent nights rocking or soothing a fretful baby? Researchers have found that rocking chairs may help calm anxiety and relieve depression in older adults with dementia as well. Nancy Watson of the University of Rochester, and colleagues studied 25 nursing home residents with dementia and found that those who rocked […]

For more information on restraints, please visit the following link: NOTE: clicking on the link below will take you to another website http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fpc/safety.htm The Minnesota Department of Health has provided information to consumers on understanding the role of restraints in resident safety.

By Mary Ann Matteson, PhD, RN, FAAN Persons with dementia often “perseverate” about going “home” or have delusions about “home”. Home can mean different things to a person with dementia. It may mean the home, a home where they lived in another stage of their life, it may mean the home they recently left or

by Catherine Harris PhD, RNCS It is often alluded to by the press that families abandon their family members when long-term chronic illnesses occur. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Families provide 75% to 80% of the care for people with Alzheimer’s disease. Families, through love, pride, or economic constraints, care for their disabled

Stress affects Everyone – But in different ways NO TWO PEOPLE EXPERIENCE STRESS IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY! Stress is defined as “The exposure to a stressful event AND the reaction to that stressor” Stress is based on the individual’s perception of the event that is occurring. Words used to describe “Stress”: • Burden •

Compared with wives who care for a spouse with Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia, daughters caring for similarly afflicted parents experience more cardiovascular stress, a new study shows. Dr. Abby C. King, of Stanford Medical School, and Colleagues studied 81 women, ages 50 – 85, who acted as primary caregivers to a

The Villa Serena Model, Characteristics and Guidelines by Thomas Elin JD, Catherine Harris PhD, RNCS, Gustavo Román, MD Introduction Most families strive to provide care at home for their loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or other forms of dementia, well into the course of the disease. Help is available from educational programs and community

  20.8 million people in the U.S. (7 % of the population) had diabetes in 2005. 20.6 million people aged 20 years or older (9.6% of all people in this age group) had diabetes. 10.3 million people aged 60 years or older (20.9% of all people in this age group) had diabetes. An estimated 2.5

Dementia Worldwide: In 2005, an estimated 24.3 million people worldwide had dementia, with 4.6 million new cases of dementia every year (one new case every 7 seconds). The number of those with dementia will be an estimated 42 million by 2020, and 81.1 million by 2040. Most people with dementia live in developing countries: 60%

Mindy J. Kim-Miller, MD, PhD There is growing evidence for a link between cardiovascular (heart) disease and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Both diseases share common risk factors including hypertension (high blood pressure), cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, smoking, and ApoE4 (a gene which has been associated with atherosclerosis, AD, and possibly vascular dementia). The intriguing part of these