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7 07, 2023

How to Ensure Better Brain Health
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How to Ensure Better Brain Health

Education, Health and Wellbeing

How to Ensure Better Brain Health

By Cole Archer|2023-07-07T13:15:05+00:00July 7, 2023|Education, Health and Wellbeing|Comments Off on How to Ensure Better Brain Health

Foster Good Brain Health Habits Do not wait for symptoms of cognitive decline! While Alzheimer’s disease has no cure yet, 40% of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by targeting modifiable risk factors. Start caring for your brain health NOW! and fight this disease before you are at risk. Diet: Foods that are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids and the Mediterranean Diet have been shown to help reduce the risk of memory loss by preventing plaques that build up between neurons and reduce inflammation in your body. Exercise: [...]

19 12, 2022

Detecting Dementia During the Holidays
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Detecting Dementia During the Holidays

Alzheimer's and Dementia, Caregivers, Education

Detecting Dementia During the Holidays

By Cole Archer|2022-12-19T15:39:49+00:00December 19, 2022|Alzheimer's and Dementia, Caregivers, Education|Comments Off on Detecting Dementia During the Holidays

Celebrating holidays means celebrating family. What a wonderful time for families to listen, and to collect stories from their Parents and Grandparents. This magical time is also a wonderful opportunity to detect troubles with short-term memory, and if present, seek help early on. Thankfully, our brains tend to hold onto long term memories like our childhood and early adulthood quite well. However, confusion about things that happened today, yesterday, last week, and last month are often the earliest sign of a dementing process. According to Alzheimers.gov the following symptoms are [...]

26 09, 2022

Gamer Grandparents: How gaming helps stimulate the brain for dementia patients.
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Gamer Grandparents: How gaming helps stimulate the brain for dementia patients.

Alzheimer's and Dementia, Caregivers, Education, Health and Wellbeing, Uncategorized

Gamer Grandparents: How gaming helps stimulate the brain for dementia patients.

By Cole Archer|2022-09-26T18:34:09+00:00September 26, 2022|Alzheimer's and Dementia, Caregivers, Education, Health and Wellbeing, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Gamer Grandparents: How gaming helps stimulate the brain for dementia patients.

You may not realize it, but the boomer generation invented computerized games. In 1952 the first graphic-based computer tic-tac-toe game was invented by a Cambridge Ph.D. student A.S. Dougless. Dougless, however, was not credited with the first real video game, the honor is given to William Higinbotham who created “Tennis for Two” in 1958. These two games inspired others to create even more complex games such as “SpaceWar” in 1962 by Steve Russell and “Chase” in 1967 by Ralph Baer. The first arcade games were created in 1971 by [...]

20 10, 2021

Help yourself, Help your family, Help the next generation!
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Help yourself, Help your family, Help the next generation!

Alzheimer's and Dementia, Community Outreach, Education

Help yourself, Help your family, Help the next generation!

By Cole Archer|2021-10-20T14:50:33+00:00October 20, 2021|Alzheimer's and Dementia, Community Outreach, Education|Comments Off on Help yourself, Help your family, Help the next generation!

Participate in Alzheimer’s Prevention and Treatment Research: Columbus Memory Center is fortunate to have Columbus, and Columbus is fortunate to have Columbus Memory Center. Offering the same FDA approved trials as Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, Emory, and other major institutions, the partnership between our regional community and Columbus Memory Center is making a difference. If you have a family history of Dementia, carry the gene that can put you at high risk, or have been diagnosed with Dementia, Alzheimer’s or Mild Cognitive Impairment, consider participating in Clinical Research. Research [...]

30 09, 2020

Improving Health Literacy
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Improving Health Literacy

Alzheimer's and Dementia, Education, Health and Wellbeing

Improving Health Literacy

By Jonathan Liss|2022-09-26T19:21:27+00:00September 30, 2020|Alzheimer's and Dementia, Education, Health and Wellbeing|Comments Off on Improving Health Literacy

The cost of misunderstanding healthcare and how to increase education Health literacy is the ability to understand health care information and to make appropriate decisions with regard to that information. Let’s face it, very few of us completely understand what I like to call “Doctor-Speak”. You know, the complicated diagnosis that sounds like, “Sir, you’ve suffered a severe hypertensive emergency”, or the “I’m sorry ma’am, it appears your son was in diabetic ketoacidosis.” You are not alone. It is estimated that 36 percent of the [...]