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5 Best Books to Read This Fall
Autumn is a season for self-improvement, transformation, and development. There is no more opportune moment than now to delve into these five books! Discover these motivational reads that can help you succeed in any endeavor you choose. Beyond Self-Care Potato Chips - Choosing Nourishing Self-Care in a Quick-Fix Culture From a cognitive psychologist, a trusted voice among millennial women, a call to action for readers everywhere to enter their true self-care era that will nourish and sustain them.
Before Dementia
Structured around 20 questions you need to ask to help prevent, prepare, and cope, this book is a friendly, authoritative guide for anyone facing dementia and those who care for them. Exploring why disease is a social construct just as much as a biological construct, it helps us understand what it means to live with or care for someone with dementia. How do I know if I have dementia, and how will I live with it if I do? Can people with dementia consent to sex?
Distressed dementia patients don’t belong in hospital wards, but there are often no other options in Australia
Dementia brings us some of the most difficult questions we as individuals and society can ever face, questions about essential aspects of humanity. To help people living with dementia have the best lives possible, along with their carers, means we need to talk openly about suffering and distress.
What Causes Osteoporosis and How to Increase Bone Strength As We Get Older
When we think of bones, we think of off-white, hard, stiff and unchanging objects. However, our bones are very much a living and dynamic tissue. They provide the structure of our bodies that enables us to move. Our bones are attachment point for muscles, protect vital organs and provide a reservoir for calcium. Tightly regulated in our blood, calcium controls many of our cellular actions. This includes the contraction and relaxation of muscle cells.
Diet in the Prevention of Dementia
CME Article Abstract Many cases of dementia can be delayed or prevented with lifestyle interventions. One important strategy is optimizing nutrition. Nutrition plays a role by providing essential micro- and macronutrients, but also by optimizing gut health via the gut microbiome. There is no one optimal diet for brain health; the key is eating a large variety of plant-based foods and ensuring that the diet contains all necessary micronutrients.
Trepidation, hope, heartbreak, excitement: The reality of leaving lockdown
I was supposed to be working on a Covid ward today. Instead I am home nursing a broken rib, reflecting on the hope of joy and reunion ahead sitting alongside the grief of the lives that have been lost, and what we have lost in our lives. I am happy we are coming out of lockdown. The community has a bargain with our elected leaders: people have come out in droves to get vaccinated, each one doing so in good faith that they can one day visit their family again and enjoy a night out with friends.
My patients in Melbourne tell me how they caught Covid, and the reasons leave me sad and frustrated
Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP When I do my ward round on my patients with Covid, I don’t ask them why they aren’t vaccinated. I don’t ask them how they caught Covid. My role is to provide caring, compassionate non-judgmental care. But sometimes people tell me unprompted and the reasons leave me feeling sad and frustrated for the inequality in our health system.
The Gender of Dementia
Auguste Deter died on the 8 April 1906, aged 55, after spending the last years of her life in a psychiatric hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. A photo of her from 1902, after she was institutionalised, shows a woman in a white gown, in a messy bed with her knees drawn up to her chest. Read Full Article »
How the life paths of men and women affect the diagnosis of dementia – Kate Gregorevic | Aeon Essays
Auguste Deter died on the 8 April 1906, aged 55, after spending the last years of her life in a psychiatric hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. A photo of her from 1902, after she was institutionalised, shows a woman in a white gown, in a messy bed with her knees drawn up to her chest. She isn’t looking at the camera, and looks lost and bereft. Deter was admitted to hospital because she had a paranoid suspicion that her husband was having an affair, and her memory was starting to decline.
Presenting symptoms of COVID‐19 and clinical outcomes in hospitalised older adults
Original Article Dr Kate Gregorevic Corresponding Author Geriatrician and General Physician katherine.gregorevic@mh.org.au orcid.org/0000-0002-2248-761X Department of Aged Care, Royal Melbourne Hospital, 300 Grattan St, Parkville, Vic, 3052 Correspondence Geriatrician and General Physician Royal Melbourne Hospital Email address: Email: katherine.gregorevic@mh.org.au Address: Department of Aged Care, Royal Melbourne Hospital 300 Grattan St, Parkville, Vic, 3052 Search for more papers by this...
5 Common Questions That a Geriatrician Is Asked About Dementia
Dementia is one of the most feared diseases in the world. It is now incredibly rare to find someone whose life has not been touched by this disease, whether it is a parent, friend, sibling, or spouse. The grief of losing someone with dementia often begins long before their death, with seeing a gradual loss of memory, changes in personality, and sometimes distressing behaviours. Therefore, it is no wonder that dementia is feared so greatly.
Is there a science to staying alive longer?
It is only relatively recently that enough people have actually reached old age to enable us to study why and how some people stay healthy while others die young. In 1900, the worldwide average life expectancy was 31 years; now it is 71 years, and in developed countries like Japan, the UK and Australia it is over 80. The number of healthy years lived will be influenced by our lifestyle choices.
How Australia failed aged care residents
I’m a geriatrician and recently, while visiting an aged care facility, I had a conversation that left me floored. One of the nurses was talking about how incredibly amazing the local hospital network was because they provided them some PPE. This nurse works at a large aged-care facility in Melbourne. She is intelligent, dedicated and hard-working.
Unpaid labour at home is making women sicker than men
Women tend to neglect their own wellbeing since they usually have higher levels of caring responsibilities, than men, in their households. Dr Kate Gregorevic share how she looks after herself amid the chaos of the daily grind. A recent article published in the Qantas magazine caught my attention for all the wrong reasons. It was describing the day for a male neuroscientist, and his quest for the perfect anti-ageing lifestyle.
My Top 5 Health Tips for Staying Well in Isolation
It feels like a lifetime ago that we were all going to cafés, concerts, movies, playing golf, and hugging our friends and family. Life has changed in ways that we never imagined over these last few weeks. While we take the necessary steps to stop the spread of coronavirus and save lives, for many it has been at the expense of mental health. The changes in our routines mean that many of us have lost our usual coping strategies, including those critical interactions with friends.
Why Tai Chi is Amazing for the Health and Happiness of Older Women
I have a confession to make. Based on the science, for years I have been recommending Tai Chi to my patients without ever doing it myself. To avoid being a hypocrite any longer, I decided to attend my first ever Tai Chi class. The class was a free one set in a large open square. My first impression was just how warm and welcoming everyone was. Despite my initial apprehension about trying something new, I immediately felt at ease.
What You Really Need to Know About Resistance Training After 60
As part of the research I had to do for my upcoming book, I’ve spoken to many experts in healthy ageing. One theme always keeps coming back: resistance training. Resistance training means working your muscles against force to help them get stronger. This is incredibly important when getting older, because with age our muscles decline in strength. Despite this, at any age, our muscles still respond to exercise.
11 Powerful Sleep Strategies from a Geriatrician
As a geriatrician, I work with senior patients who suffer from a diverse range of problems, including memory worries, anxiety, pain, diabetes, falls, and more. One symptom many of them have in common is poor sleep. Having enough sleep feels great, but sleep should not be regarded as a luxury. Sleep is an essential element which your mind and body need to work at an optimal level.
Why Healthy Gut Bacteria is So Important for Older Adults
Imagine a rain forest teeming with life. All around are trees reaching seemingly to the sky, monkeys swing through the branches, vividly coloured birds shout noisily to each other, butterflies flutter by flowers, wire haired pigs snuffle in the dirt, underneath our feet tree roots form a dense mat. All these and many more plants, animals, fungi and bacteria are living interlinked lives, all part of a complex and dependent ecosystem.
5 Nutrition Suggestions for Healthy Aging
I remember when Jane Fonda proudly announced that she had put on some weight, and that she was looking better. She said growing up, she was told it was a choice between her ‘ass or her face,’ but now she’s getting complements on both. Many women spend their lives restricting food to try and stay fashionably thin. For older adults, losing weight can actually be deleterious and can be associated with greater mortality because with weight loss, there is also loss of muscle.
5 Common Questions That a Geriatrician Is Asked About Dementia
Dementia is one of the most feared diseases in the world. It is now incredibly rare to find someone whose life has not been touched by this disease, whether it is a parent, friend, sibling or spouse. The grief of losing someone with dementia often begins long before their death, with seeing a gradual loss of memory, changes in personality and sometimes distressing behaviours. Therefore, it is no wonder that dementia is feared so greatly.
Before Dementia
About the Book About preventing, preparing, coping How do I know if I have dementia, and how will I live with it if I do? Can people with dementia consent to sex? Can they choose euthanasia for their future selves? And can we prevent or push back its onset? Chances are you know someone with dementia, but how well do you really understand the condition?
The Effects of Advance Care Planning Interventions on Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review
Advance care planning (ACP) encompasses a process by which people may express and record their values and preferences for care and treatment should they lose the capacity to communicate them in the future. We believe the effects that ACP can have on the nursing home population is distinct from others and sought to gain insight into the outcomes of relevant studies on the topic. To identify the effects of ACP interventions on nursing home residents.
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