#that and dementia/alzheimers

[caintooth]

seeing people my age talk about how scared they are of memory loss, which they only associate with old age, is so surreal to see as a 24 year old who has actively experienced memory loss for a long time now

there are causes for memory loss besides dementia and alzheimer’s, i hope y’all know that. dissociative disorders, trauma, brain injuries, thyroid problems, even just stress and lack of sleep can fuck up your ability to store, process, and access memory. and that’s just a few of the many causes i can think of off the top of my head right now.

please stop treating disabled people like some scary “other” that you might become only in the distant, decades-away future. we are your age, too. you may become one of us sooner than you know. stop acting like memory loss marks the end of a life, when so many of us have so much living left to do!

#diary #memory loss #memory disorder #dementia #alzheimers #dissociative disorder #dissociative amnesia #dissociation #dissociative identity disorder #trauma #brain injury #memory #amnesia #actually dissociative #complex dissociative disorder #osddid #osdd system #dissociative system #other specified dissociative disorder #did system

[portraitoftheoddity]

I see the oranges post about my parents is making the rounds again, so I figured I'd post an update about my parents and food.

So my folks are both in their sixties now (oranges story happened in the 1980s), and my dad is semi-retired and works part time from home. He has also become a huge foodie over the course of my parents' marriage, and is really into cooking. He now cooks every meal in that house, three times a day (if he's home and not traveling for work or out doing crazy outdoors shit or volunteering), and genuinely deeply enjoys it and loves cooking for my mom.

My mother is having a lot of anxieties about aging right now -- mainly because her father (my gramps) developed severe dementia prior to his death, and where my mom was his caretaker through much of his decline, she's terrified of going through the same thing. Any time she has a very normal lapse in memory, she panics that she's losing her mind.

So my dad started doing research. He listened to a podcast with an endocrinologist who talked about diet and brain health and work he'd done into how certain nutritional regimens can slow the progression of dementia, and he ended up reading a book on the topic and doing a lot of his own research into the science of nutrition with regards to neuroscience (he's pretty good at vetting real scientific sources and not just buying into boomer-facebook-pseudoscience).

And then he put them BOTH on a new, brain-healthy diet specifically optimized to cut out foods that have demonstrated a negative impact on cognitive function in studies, and including those that have been associated with benefits to brain health.

Now remember, my dad is a huge foodie. And he has 100% now committed to cutting out a number of his favorite foods because there was never a question in his mind that he wouldn't be doing this right beside my mom, as he cooks all their meals and they share those meals together. All to help my mom's brain and soothe her fears about her own mind and the future by working on any factor within their control.

I visited them last weekend and Dad's cooking is, as always, delicious. But even though they've cut out a lot of sugar, there's an innate sweetness in knowing just how much every meal he cooks is an act of love.

#the citrus poltergeist saga #anecdotes #dementia cw #alzheimers cw #food cw

[reasonsforhope]

"Caring for a pet helps stave off cognitive decline for people over 50 who live on their own, according to a new study of almost 8,000 participants.

Researchers found that pet ownership was associated with slower rates of decline in verbal memory and verbal fluency among the older adults who were living alone.

The study included 7,945 mostly-white British participants from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing with an average age of 66.

Followed over an eight year period, more than a third of the group (35.1 percent) owned pets; about 30% of the group lived alone.

Previous studies suggested that solitary living is a risk factor for developing dementia and cognitive decline, but among those folks, raising dogs or cats was related to reduced loneliness.

Some research has found that pet ownership is associated with better verbal memory and executive function, but others failed to find any evidence.

The new research published in JAMA Network aimed to further explore the association between aging by oneself—a trend which has been on the rise over the past few decades—and pet ownership. And the results were clear.

“Pet ownership offset the associations between living alone and declining rates in verbal memory and verbal fluency,” said study corresponding author Professor Ciyong Lu, of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.

It was “a significant modifier” in all 3 associations—composite verbal cognition, verbal memory, and verbal fluency.

“Pet ownership was associated with slower rates of decline among older adults living alone.”

But owning a cat or dog did not make any difference for older people who lived with other people.

“These findings suggest that pet ownership may be associated with slower cognitive decline among older adults living alone.”

Prof. Lu is now calling for clinical trials that could help inform public health measures to address dementia among the elderly."

-via Good News Network, November 30, 2023

#dementia #alzheimers #neurology #neuroscience #medical news #aging #cognitive functions #psychology #healthcare #memory #united kingdom #uk #good news #hope

[jorrated]

idk man i wont hold comics from the 90's to modern standards of representation of mental health, but how Mighty's dad was written always rubbed me the wrong way

#sonic the comic #jo.art #mighty the armadillo #society max #kinda fucked up they treated a character with memory issue like a craaaaazy whackoo #first time i read it i was like 'he has demantia right. theyre implying he has dementia' #so characters calling him crazy is like... mng. uncomfy. #my family has a history with alzheimers #so idk its a scary thing from both ends

[the-song-of-avernus]

oh god oh god. i was NOT prepared for the surprise of "Shadowheart's Mom has early stage Alzheimer's/Dementia" She literally gets you confused for Shadowheart/Jen if playing a fem durge/tav (apparently she confuses you for her HUSBAND if you're playing dude) and she's at that stage where she KNOWS she's slipping and will get worse and not better and holy shit this is so heartbreaking and hits way, way too close to home (lost my grandma to it, and my aunt that was basically my mother died from a brain tumor that...caused issues) JFC this is brutal, hits close to home, was a total surprise on my 2nd run, and I can't remember seeing it depicted in games (esp. fantasy games) very often.

#shadowheart #dark urge #jenevelle hallowleaf #emmeline hallowleaf #shar #alzheimers #dementia #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #memory loss #elderly #shart #durge #redeemed dark urge #selune

[mindblowingscience]

Adults diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD) are almost three times more likely to go on to develop dementia, according to a new study that looked at 109,218 adults with and without the condition over a period of 17 years. The researchers, from institutions in Israel and the US, found that 13.2 percent of the participants with ADHD went on to develop dementia over the course of the study, compared with 7 percent of those without an ADHD diagnosis. After adjusting for other potential factors (such as heart problems) and calculating a hazard ratio which also considers how quickly dementia occurred, the conclusion was that those with ADHD were 2.77 times more likely to develop dementia conditions, including Alzheimer's disease. As well as offering scientists new insight into the neurological mechanisms that might trigger dementia, the study also helps to identify more people who could be at greater risk so that precautions can be taken.

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#Dementia #alzheimers #ADHD #attention deficit hyperactivity disorder #neuroscience #science #biology #stem #medicine

[mapsontheweb]

Dementia events and first Alzheimer’s disease events per 100,000 Medicare beneficiaries across the contiguous United States

#maps #us #dementia #alzheimer

[grooviestsadpapaya]

Not to vent or anything serious but having a dad with Alzheimer’s is seriously devastating and I need to talk about it in a space where no one will say womp womp, because honestly yeah I do the same thing but I’m just so tired.

He’s so… confused. All the time. And it sucks to see. But at the same time he’s so filled with joy and wonder. It’s sad that he acts like a child most times but there are moments where it’s uplifting. It’s little things like him pointing out how many deer there are when we go on a drive, or reading what he sees out loud. He talks lovingly about his wife without realizing he’s talking to her. When I practice my violin he always says “I should get my guitar out and we should start a band”. And it’s fuckinnn hard dude. But I need to remember that these will be my last years with him. He’s also going to suffer a lot in the coming years and that’s a horrific thought for me.

And it is so much harder than just “he’s losing his memory”, like, my dad doesn’t eat much anymore. Like. At all. and we can’t do anything about it. He wears gloves in the house because he’s tarting to develop some pretty bad sensory problems relating to texture and temperature. He fights showers for the same reason.

Sorry for venting and I’ll probably delete this later, I just don’t like talking about it with people irl because they get uncomfortable with my grief, which like, yeah I get that that’s valid. But if I hear another womp womp from some broccoli top white boy with “dark humor” (disturbing lack of empathy) I might just crawl into an oven with some cookie dough

#vent #alzheimers #dementia #sorry I’m just really frustrated #I was having dinner with my dad tonight and he just seemed so happy #he introduced himself to me three times

[listonlouis]

a friendly old man from new york who just loves helping people anyway he can, such as friends, family, or anyone else that needs help, and although he can be a little forgetful sometimes, it's nothing serious.

a retired actress who's beginning to realise that something is off when she finds it difficult to recall names of family members, and former acquaintances, now she's afraid that she might forget about her entire career.

a woman who used to love going outdoors, but now she doesn't want to leave the house, when she tries to cook, she'll often burn the food, she's also finding it difficult to find the right words, and will ask the same questions over and over again.

a sad old man who once fought in vietnam, now he has trouble with routine tasks, often feeling lost and confused, as he's beginning to forget recent events, luckily he still has his wife who still love him, and is willing to take care of him, even with his occasional mood swings and lack of responsiveness.

she enjoyed dancing when she was young but those days are behind her, she now spend her days at a hospital with her head in the clouds, and although she's forgotten alot in her life, she still recognises the voice of her husband, and is often visited by him, and he wants to be by her side until the very end.

this man is without description.

#everywhere at the end of time #eateot #the caretaker #fanart #original characters #ocs #memory loss #old people #alzheimers #dementia #old #cartoon style #art #my art

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Thinking about the complexities of a "losing your magic" story in a DnD (and similar) scenerio because what it means completly depends of your class. Because while not everyone is born with magic, everyone can have it.

How for a sorcerer losing their magic is genuinally about losing a part of themselfs, to suddently not being able to do something they always did. Losing your magic is like sudently losing a limb or one of your senses. And how besides being always theirs, their magic is ancestral how it can mean losing a connection with a part of their family history.

How for paladins is about morals. About breaking their vows whatever they are, dealing with the fact that they changed or maybe that morals were always way more complicated than they thought they were. (The Oathbreaker subclass changes things but I think it can work if Oathbreaker is one of the ways to embrace the emotional conflict that took your magic). Is almost phylosofical. Is the what makes Thor worthy?

How for druids, clerics and warlocks are different levels of losing a connection. For druids is with nature, with a force beyond their comprehension but that became a part of you for so long and who are you without this feeling? For warlocks is so many things, is losing a boss, a friend, is the price of freedom, is the loss of whatever you had with the sentient being that gave you powers. And for clerics is a mix, is about if their gods are feelings like nature or beings that talk to them, but whatever it is, for clerics, for clerics is a lack of faith. Is about what happens when you doubt your god, when you can't belive it or in it. Is also about what happens when your god doesn't belive in you.

For bards and mages is the loss of a skill. The bards might have the loss of their playing or voice but even if not, even if is just the magic that is gone, well they, just like the mages, studied hard to be abble to do magic. If for a sorcerer is like losing a limb, for them is like waking up in the morning and noticing your accent changed or that you don't speak a language you once did anymore, is trying to ride the same bicycle you used to go to work everyday and noticing you just doesn't know how.

#now since i'm listening to rqg #i need need to point out #that it started with me thinking aboug rqg wilde #and the differences between hamid's fear of losing magic and wilde's actual reality after losing his #and after getting it #thinking about how rq wilde speaks with a posh british accent #not a hint of the irish he had to have had #and thinking about how trying to do prestigiditagion and failing for him is actually similar to the day he realized it #the day he noticed his thoughts were not in irish gaelic anymore #also a thing hamid and him can totally bound about because hamid also lost his cairo accent #rqg #rusty quill gaming #dnd #pathfinder #ttrpg #loss of magic #in a less this specific podcast does degenerative disorders like dementia and Alzheimer affect bardic and mages magic? #does amnesia affect their spells? #are they muscle memory? #is some of them muscle memory and some not?

[mrbensonmum]

TV Show - Dr. House | House M.D. VII

Unstoppably we are approaching the end of the third season (currently at S3E20, House Training), and I'm wondering, as my memory refuses to reveal, what major event occurs that causes House to reform his team or leads to drastic changes. Yes, I admit, I'm really looking forward to seeing Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) and also Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn), although I think Masters might take a little longer to appear.

It's quite exciting when you've seen everything already, can remember a lot, but a rewatch helps to put all the puzzle pieces back in the right order. Yes, one could think about it, but I enjoy the suspense.

One of the scenes that made me laugh a lot back then has already come up, namely when House compares a patient's body to the German railway system. Back then, the comparison might have been somewhat accurate, and yes, even in the original, he makes the same comparison with the same cities (Berlin & Düsseldorf), but unfortunately, the German trains, whether regional or long-distance, are nowhere near as good and punctual anymore. I've been wondering the whole time if it was like that back then, but no, today it's definitely worse. Just thinking about how many times I got stranded at a train station last year, BIG UFF!

Otherwise, after the Tritter thing, things are moving rather slowly, and I don't think that's a bad thing at all. The highlight, of course, is the romance between Chase and Cameron, although it's almost over by now. I vaguely remember a wedding in the future and maybe even a divorce? No, I'm sure about the wedding, but I don't think there was a divorce. Oh, I also remember the big bus accident involving Wilson's girlfriend. There's a lot more to come!

Speaking of which, I think the dynamic between Wilson and House has changed a lot since the incident with the prescription pad. At first, it seemed like everything was over and they had no future, but now the connection seems stronger than ever. We also saw that in the story with Cuddy, when they both tested each other to see how far they would go. And then just saying "Night House!" "Night Wilson!" to each other, that's a true bromance, ladies and gentlemen! (I know, I'm late to that party!)

But now there's a very heavy episode on, as once again, an important topic is being addressed, one that often unfortunately gets overlooked in every society, Alzheimer's & dementia. Foreman's mother suffers from Alzheimer's, and I know, it really affected me back then because my grandmother died of Alzheimer's, and my mother is showing the first signs of it now. This disease steals the mind first, then the body, and we should talk about it much more and do much more against it. I know what it's like to watch a person lose themselves in the darkness of this disease, and believe me, you wouldn't wish it on anyone. Once again, a topic highlighted by the series and one that should continue to be addressed. I'm currently wondering if House is airing anywhere on regular TV in Germany, but I don't think so at the moment. That should change because yes, it can be fun and enjoyable for about 45 minutes, but it's also a topic of conversation that might find resonance in the workplace or similar institutions, and suddenly a disease is lifted from its obscurity and brought into the real world. THAT'S IMPORTANT! However, there is another important aspect in this episode that must not be overlooked. Doctors make mistakes, and these mistakes can end up being deadly! Of course, nobody wants to talk about it in the real world, and doctors usually don't admit to such things. It's another issue that's hushed up, but the series brings it back to light, brilliantly! Also, the fact that House performs an autopsy afterward for research purposes may seem strange and odd at first, but it's also about finding out where things went wrong. Yes, it's also to stroke one's own ego, but it's also to prevent such things from happening again.

I won't manage to finish the end of the third season today, but there was another remarkable appearance. In the last episode (S3E19, Act your Age), part of the supporting cast of Bones made an appearance. We saw Joel David Moore and Carla Gallo. And in the episode before that (S3E18, Airborne), Pej Vahdat was one of the passengers or Foreman's substitute.

A little thank you to everyone who diligently reads and shares my Dr. House posts. I'm just doing this for fun, but it's cool that it's well-received and my little analyses are being shared. Thank you very much!

#tvshow #house #dr. house #dr house #house md #greg house #gregory house #wilson #james wilson #dr. wilson #alzheimers #dementia #important

[vanx-97]

I'm so tired of having these fights

I think I have lost my mind

Who are you and who am I?

Why do you make me wanna die?

I get the feeling that you don't care

You being nice has gotten so rare

Your disdain is all you share

Of your hate I am well aware

Do you love me? Or did you forget?

Am I just a blur inside your head?

How many moments do we have left?

Will these words still rip our flesh?

On the inside I feel dead

On the inside you seem confused

I know you try your best

But all these memories you still lose

Will we be able to find peace?

All the war, the destruction, and the grief

All this havoc that we wreak

Will these be the memories I get to keep?

#depression #mental health #mental illness #sadness #alzheimers #dementia #how much longer #pain #hurtful words #verbal abuse #dark poetry #poets of tumblr #poems and poetry #anxiety #poeticstories

[divorcepapers-stimboard]

dementia stimboard

tws: dementia, possibly scary imagery

#this is so eateot-coded #dementia #eateot #everywhere at the end of time #alzheimers #memory loss #cursed stimboard #stimboard #weird stim #lowkey an art project #scary stimboard #possibly scary #maybe spooky

[ahedderick]

Dementia research

I'm boggled - but in a good way. This is a brilliant read, and a little too long for me to summarize . . but imagine all the things small, interactive robots could do to improve the lives of dementia patients. There isn't one solution, here; but as many different solutions as there are dementia patients and roboticists.

#eldercare #dementia #alzheimers #health #robots #medical #robotics

[handweavers]

not using twitter and tiktok + rarely watching movies & tv really has me feeling so lost drifted completely out to sea whenever i hear about something that's going viral or whatever especially when it comes to music bc popular music is mostly decided by what songs are most tiktok-able and I for real recognize like maybe 2% of the names on any top charting list or whenever people post photos of whoever's making music rn dressed like they fell out of a delia's catalogue circa 2003 i have no clue who these people are but i just have to assume they did a collab with somebody more famous or somebody did a Nightcore edit of one of their songs for a tiktok meme or something

#i feel like an alzheimer's patient i need someone to put me in one of those dementia neighbourhoods but its permanently 2011

[mindblowingscience]

The good news is that quitting smoking prevents further loss of brain tissue, but still, stopping smoking doesn’t restore the brain to its original size. Since people’s brains naturally lose volume with age, the findings, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, help explain why smokers are at high risk of age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. “Up until recently, scientists have overlooked the effects of smoking on the brain, in part because we were focused on all the terrible effects of smoking on the lungs and the heart,” says senior author Laura J. Bierut, professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. “But as we’ve started looking at the brain more closely, it’s become apparent that smoking is also really bad for your brain.”

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#Health #Alzheimers #Dementia #Smoking #Brains #Aging