The positive impact on your health of staying socially active peaked my interest when I wrote the posts about playing bridge. Now the research tells us that lack of community involvement and infrequent contact with friends and family may increase your risk for Alzheimer’s. Researchers are now discovering that people who are calm and stay …
Tag Archive: dementia
Nov
07
Bridge Players Challenge Brain Decline In Old Age
Apparently playing bridge and the impact it has on the brain has been studied longer than I thought. For example, researchers are now saying that it is important to keep challenging your brain but not all activities are equal. It seems that people who spend long stretches of their days, three hours or more, engrossed …
Oct
27
Vitamin D Makes A Difference
Now I'm starting to wonder if I'm one of those people who, in my efforts to prevent skin cancer, may have impaired my brain function because I have a deficiency of vitamin D. This is the sunshine vitamin so called because it is synthesized in our skin when we are exposed to direct …
Aug
02
Socially Connected People Age More Successfully
It is becoming more evident that those people who are active with family and friends and who participate in clubs or volunteer programs tend to be healthier and happier. A recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health reported that staying social may even protect your brain from the often negative …
May
25
Tips to Fighting Forgetfulness
These are very practical recommendations that anyone can do which will reduce how much you forget. Memory loss is frustrating and troublesome and even scary especially if you have a family history of Alzheimer's disease or dementia. Even so, unless your forgetfulness is severe it could be just the normal part of growing older. Fortunately, …
Aug
18
Solutions to 5 Major Health Problems
by Dr. Reginald O’Neal I challenge all my patients to become a working partner with me so that I can help them resolve five major health issues that are very common. The five health issues are: Osteoporosis Dementia and memory loss Sleep problems and resulting fatigue Achieving and maintaining the correct weight Blood pressure control …
Apr
17
Alzheimer’s Disease: To Screen or Not to Screen?
The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, a nonprofit advocacy group, endorses memory tests for all older Americans. The Alzheimer’s Disease Screening Discussion Group – sponsored by Pfizer and Esai, who produce the Alzheimer’s drug Aricept- also promoted screening for those 65 or older or residing in an assisted-living or long-term care facility. Other health professionals are …
Apr
14
Alzheimer’s Testing As Early as Age 50
There’s a definite movement for universal screening for Alzheimer starting with people have a history of the Alzheimer’s Disease in their family as well as for anyone 50 years and older. The theory behind the screening is that there are now medicines that can slow down the progress of the disease and these medicines work …
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