I wish I had known about these books sooner. I wish I had known the term “ambiguous loss” years ago as it so aptly describes the messy, mysterious, and gradual losses associated with dementia. Ambiguity is a great word. It ...
Read More »The Human Mantra- “Live by Design”
I am not the most qualified person to speak on the issue of the declining human condition and how it relates to the environment, but I do buy into the notion that we are our own worst enemy. I hear you… ...
Read More »Resources to Remember
I spend a lot of my time treating patients in Sunrise Senior Living communities (I am not an employee). This is one of my favorite weeks of the year as the focus of the entire corporation is on memory care ...
Read More »Stress-point Learning
Imagine for a minute that you are listening to a speaker give a fairly interesting lecture on a topic… and your mind starts to wander. You are still aware that the speaker is talking, yet you are also thinking about ...
Read More »The Grain Brain
If you haven’t read The Grain Brain by Dr. David Perlmutter, you are missing out on an interesting argument about the cause and effect relationship of the modern day human diet and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. A few interesting ...
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