As the age grows, we tend to forget things. Sometimes, forgetting small things doesn't matter a lot.

But, if you notice you’re forgetting important details, and daily activities there might be something else going on. Do you constantly forget where you’ve kept things?

Has it felt like you’re forgetting important dates you had no problem remembering before?

Do you forget directions to familiar places? If you’re having trouble with things mentioned before, you should see a psychiatrist in Patna, Dr. Vivek Pratap Singh. 

Dementia psychology

Dementia is a broad category characterized by mental decline as one ages. It’s a cluster of syndrome affecting thinking and memory abilities.

Dementia is more prominent as one ages. But, secondary dementia can manifest whenever depending on the cause.

As one ages, the risk of dementia grows. That leads to many asking questions like can i prevent it? Are there steps to curb its growth and symptoms? 

How to prevent dementia and memory loss?

Dementia’s major risk factor is growing age. Old age can’t be prevented. So, rather adopting other ways can help just as much. 

Regular physical activity puts one’s general health in good condition. It’s one of the best ways to improve blood circulation in your heart, and all the other organs. Being physically fit has shown a positive impact on mental well-being of a person. For someone, who doesn’t take care of their fitness, it can be hard for them to perform activities that enhance physical well-being. This is the reason one should find activities that are accommodating and comfortable for them so that they don’t have a reason to break the streak. 

Eating a healthy diet is immensely vital for the brain to get adequate nutrients and vitamins. Try eating a varied range of different foods for the best results. For example, foods like wholemeal bread, and rice have a good amount of required nutrients. Almonds are a great source of a vital brain nutrient called L-carnitine that increases brain activity and prevents neurological decline. 

Fishes like salmon, and mackerel are rich in iodine and other minerals, and omega-3 needed for optimal brain function and reduces risk of stroke and various other heart diseases. Walnuts contain minerals, melatonin, and omega-6 that slows cognitive decline and reduces brain inflammation.

Don’t drink too much alcohol. It slows down cognitive abilities and neuronal function. Drinking alcohol in heavy amounts can cause alterations in neuronal size and shape. 

How to avoid dementia and Alzheimer's?

Dementia and Alzheimer's are associated with growing age. Dementia is a symptom of Alzheimer's disease where the individual’s memory and important mental functions go through a gradual decline. These symptoms start manifesting in older age. Hence, if one has a family history, or knows they are at risk of this condition, they should follow ways that can prevent the early-onset. Following are the ways to prevent alzheimer’s:

Blood pressure control during midlife crisis can save not only from cognitive decline, but even reduces risk of stroke. Try to aim for systolic pressure to be below 130 mm/hg. 

As global warming affects the world, there has been a link associated with air pollution and dementia. Avoid harmful gases and inhalants, and try not to go out where there's a high risk of toxic inhalants such as company and industrial sites. 

Smoking has always been a culprit in one’s health. Tobacco is the most harmful substance one can introduce to their body. Even if it’s too late, stopping smoking can never be. Smoking cessation helps reduce the risk. 

Traumatic brain injuries are major secondary causes for dementia. Avoiding accidents to your head, by wearing protective gear while playing or driving can help a great deal in preventing injuries to the head. If one has sustained any kind of injury to the head, make sure to visit the GP to rule out concussions or delayed hemorrhages. This type of dementia manifests immediately without any warning.

How to prevent dementia in old age? 

Dementia is associated with memory loss that most often is noticed by someone else. Gradually, the individual has to depend on someone else for daily chores and this can lead to people getting anxious and upset. A lot of people get more and more depressed with old age, adding dementia on top of that is a recipe for disaster. Preventing it can somehow control a bit of damage. The various ways to prevent dementia are 

First and foremost, limit alcohol and smoking to a bare minimum. Researchers have found these substances damage the brain and its neurons. Smoking harms the blood vessels in the brain causing a negative impact and memory decline. 

Mental and social activities help the brain relieve stress and cope with aging mood changes. Try doing activities that stimulate brain cells developing thinking and memory skills. This way the brain is challenged and it remains active reducing the risk of dementia. 

Treatment: 

Treating already progressed dementia can be done through medications. A lot of people ask questions, can you slow down dementia with medication? The answer is yes. There are some medications that can slow down dementia like cholinesterase inhibitors such as donepezil, and rivastigmine; these medications reduce the breakdown of a chemical in the brain that is responsible for memory functions. 

Antidepressants (SSRIs) are given to improve mood symptoms such as depression and anxiety brought on by dementia. 

The supplement to prevent dementia is memantine, a brain chemical that is for memory and learning. Dementia targets these chemicals so the physician might prescribe it to improve the symptoms. 

Dementia is a grave disease that can push a person to the brim of depression and in severe cases, suicide too.

So, if you or your loved one is suffering from dementia please contact the best psychiatrist in Kankarbagh, Patna, Dr. Vivek Pratap Singh. He can counsel you about the condition to the best of his abilities. 

If you're comfortable with angst, can you write poly ineffable husbands with a human SO they've been with a very long time and is now succumbing to old age and dementia? (the time period is up to you!) I just think the idea of immortal/mortal lovers has so much room for angst and big raw emotions with stuff like that!

Death Comes for Us All

Aziraphale X Reader X Crowley

3rd person point of view

A/N- I do love writing angst! I can also tell this request is absolutely going to break me, but it's a very good idea so we are going to have a love-hate relationship now lol.

Reader Pronouns-They/Them

Word Count- 1.6 k

Summary- Crowley cannot accept the reader's fate, the reader does not even know their fate, and Aziraphale is the one thing keeping them steady.

Aziraphale and Crowley met Y/n on the same day it was however very unfortunate timing for Y/n. Timing has never been Y/n's strong suit in general but this day turned out to be particularly bad. Y/n had received intel about the location of multiple Nazis. Y/N had snuck in an hour prior to the trade deal time the informant had told them and hid behind a pew.

Y/n listened to the deal intently and took notes in shock that this whole deal was about books with prophecies you don't even know are true. It was a huge waste of money in their opinion but once the man in the pale coat handed over his books they pulled a gun on them. Y/n prepared to intervene when another British intelligent spy entered the scene which was even more confusing to them because they thought they were the only one assigned to the case it was strictly on a need-to-know basis.

She thanks the man for the introduction and the man says how she recruited him which can't possibly be true the agency just heard the intel three days ago!

He says the building is surrounded by British agents but we definitely do not have the force for that right most staying back and evacuating towns to prevent fewer bombing deaths.

He quotes an American saying, "Played for suckers." Y/n instantly facepalms. This gentleman has most certainly been conned. He starts shouting for people to start taking the group down and they'll start laughing and the man gasps in shock. Y/n rolls their eyes and starts to come out of their hiding spot to protect this sorry fool and hopefully get him out of here without any harm.

Y/n pauses with a look of utter confusion on their face as another man enters the scene hopping from foot to foot. The two men start to bicker like an old married couple.

"What a pity you both must die," one of the Nazi spies wickedly smirks.

Y/n scoffs at this why did these two civilians have to come to ruin my entire mission. Reluctantly Y/n stands up from behind the pew gun pointed, "You will not be killing any civilians today!"

Crowley smirks joyously and gushes, "They think we are regular civilians how quaint."

Y/n makes their way to the front of the church, "This ends now!" They turn back to the two men, "Get out of here I will hold them off."

The gullible man in the pale trenchcoat shakes his head, "Absolutely not!"

One of the Nazi men smile widely, "Agent L/n we had no idea we would get the pleasure of killing you as well tonight. I certainly would have made your death grander as a message to the other agents. Oh well too late now." He shrugs and points his gun at Y/n's face.

The strange babbling-jumping man seems excited to jump back into the conversation, "Speaking of a grand death!" He gestures his arms out widely, "In a few moments a bomb will be landing directly on this church but if you run very fast you may not die."

The man starts rambling about the unpleasantries of death and the opposing force looks at him with doubting glares. They argue about the bombs' location but Y/n just wants to get the civilians out and is getting progressively more annoyed.

Y/n points her gun at the ceiling and shoots a warning shot into the sky. Pieces of the ceiling and dust fall to the floor and all eyes are on them.

"Everyone out if you want to live! I will escort the peculiar civilians and you will leave us be or I'll shoot you before the bombs get to you first!"

The strange jumping man smiles, "Ooo they're feisty! I like them."

Y/n rolls their eyes and walks backwards keeping their eyes on the Nazis directing the odd pair out.

"My books," the man in the trench coat shouted.

"Quite an odd thing to be worried about when we are on the verge of being killed." Y/n sourly responds.

The jumping man seemed to look directly back at the other man, "Yes it would take a divine miracle to save us and the agent." The two seemed to be having a conversation with their eyes even though one was wearing sunglasses even though it was the middle of the night.

The agent assures them that they are protected and that they will get them out.

The jumping man looks up at the sky, "It's a little too late for that sweetheart."

With that last sentence a bomb falls upon to the church and Y/N tries to cover the civilians with their own body, knocking them to the ground just making the jumping man laugh. The church crumbles around them but Y/n finds themselves completely unharmed.

They jump to their feet in utter shock and stutter out, "H-how did you do that!"

"I think you are in shock darling. I am Aziraphale and this is Crowley. Are you all right?" The gullible one says expecting Y/n's face.

"I am fine! Especially for someone who should be dead! That bomb should have killed us all!" Y/n shouts pacing back and forth.

Aziraphale ignores the question, "I am quite glad that you are all right. It is such a shame about my books though."

Y/n starts laughing uncontrollably, "We just survived a bomb and you are worried about books!"

"I think you broke them, angel," he says sauntering over to a pile of rubble. He pulls the bag of books out of the hand of one of the dead men under the rubble, "A little demonic miracle of my own."

Aziraphale smiles brightly, "How nice!"

"Shut up!" Crowley groans. "No paperwork," he rationalizes and starts to walk away Aziraphale not far behind.

"Wait! You must tell me what just happened!" Y/n chases the two beings and never leaves their side after that night.

Sixty Years Later

Y/N, Crowley, and Aziraphale have been inseparable since they first met. They have had many dangerous adventures together and quiet nights reading and drinking hot cocoa. Crowley was befuddled at Y/N's stubbornness to protect them when they were the ones who were immortal. Aziraphale loved Y/n's stubbornness they were the only one who seemed to be able to beat Crowley in a game of wills. Y/n's stubbornness never seemed to fade with age, unfortunately.

Aziraphale pulled the curtains open, "Morning sunshine!"

Y/n tossed and turned but they did not wake up they kept mumbling. They seemed to be having a nightmare their forehead glistened with sweat. Aziraphale walked up to them and brushed Y/n's hair away from their face.

"I don't want to leave you," mumbled Y/n.

"It's alright, I'm here," Aziraphale whispered.

"I'm not ready," Y/n groaned.

"You don't have to get up darling, but I do think it is best you have something to eat or at least some tea." Aziraphale tries to bargain with Y/n.

Crowley enters and slowly takes his sunglasses off, "That's not what they mean angel." He puts his hand on Aziraphale's shoulder filled with sorrow.

"What are talking about Crowley? They will be fine once they wake, mornings are just the worst time for them." He rationalizes trying to avoid the obvious that Y/n is near death.

Crowley has been warning Aziraphale that he knew it was coming soon. As Y/n fell deeper and deeper into the memories of their long past together. Crowley longed to be stuck in those happy memories with Y/n and Aziraphale together. Sadly, he was stuck on the outside watching Y/n relieve everything the good and bad while Aziraphale lived in denial.

"Angel, please just look at me," He begged.

"I know what you're going to say Crowley and no it is not their time yet it never will be." He said venomously.

"I am upset as you are! You knew this was bound to happen we were destined to outlive all of humanity," Crowley says back trying to fight back the anger rising in him but failing miserably.

"Aren't we supposed to be not on Heaven's side or Hell's, but our side!" Aziraphale passionately states with his hand to his chest.

"Believe me, angel, if I could do something I would," Crowley looks back at him sorrowfully.

Crowley's heart aches at the look Aziraphale shoots him one full of disappointment and fear.

"I suppose you are right.. nothing ever lasts," Aziraphale responds almost emotionless like he had a mysterious switch in his head and it was flipped in an instant.

"Angel, don't say that," Crowley says back in disappointment but Aziraphale does not respond and leaves lightly shutting the door behind him.

Crowley sighs and sits on the bed next to Y/n. He gently cradles their face, "I will be with you Y/n no matter where you go and you will always be in my heart wherever ago. Rest assured darling we will meet again." He says these last words like a spell that he knows will come to fruition and seals it with a kiss on their forehead.

Even though Y/n has been unaware of most of what is going around them for almost a year now they seemed to smile at this statement and their eyes filled with tears that Crowley wiped away. Y/n knew they were safe and they shut their eyes for the last time.

the idea of terry with a beloved around his age who he's known a long time not remembering who he is because they suffer from dementia / amnesia is literally making me depressed

He remembers for them.

And he makes it his life's effort and mission to care for them once all the treatments money can buy fail preventing their state; doing so not in some expensive care home, old people's retreat, hospital --- no, personally, on his own estate, in his own mansion, because there's hardly a personnel he trusts more than his own inside of his own home, overlooked by him and his very own jurisdiction in caring for a person he's continuously loved for decades. He quite literally moved them in on his own accord years ago, even before the first signs of their Dementia started. People whisper Mr. Silver has had a significant other (or a family member --- hard to tell which beloved pertains to by an outsider) he's been committed to for literal ages but few have actually seen them because admittedly, he's selfish with beloved's presence, more so if they're sick and fragile, leaving him somewhat unwilling to reveal just how vulnerable his weakness for them is, quite literally speaking --- it is wheelchair bound, it is skittish and has a blank slate for a mind most days; there's a tiny, gloomy upside to this grief, he might think, calculating and possessive as he is even now. Sure, they don't remember him anymore but they don't remember much else either. There's no competition left inside of their head he needs to beat anyway. They're quite literally only his. Mind, body and soul.

And so he cares.

Ritualistically combing their hair, lifting them when it's time to wash them, clothe them in the best of the best, stretching their limbs a couple of times a day to avoid atrophy, feeding them meals they used to love once upon a time, calming them down once they might fly into a panic wondering what this strange, tall man is doing here; very often, Terry might talk to beloved for hours, telling them all of his plans, every nuance, every scheme, every memory, the good old days, how he'll deal with his enemies, what he'll do to who, knowing that they won't tell anyone or even judge him because ten minutes from now, they might not even remember and they're the safest confessional and friend he could ever relay his deepest, darkest secrets to. Possibly the friend he's had longest if we don't count John Kreese; and for a man fearing betrayal in his older age, it comes as an oddly comforting thing as much as it is a thing of harrowing, profound rage because if everything else evaporates from beloved's mind, so does he and he has no control or ability to ever stop it. It's like they're slipping through his fingers multiple times a day and even when he closes his fist around them, they're still not there. It is unimaginable. Beloved. Not remembering decades of love, happy moments --- his utter devotion to them. Everything he did for them. But, keep them he will and keep them he does. Because whatever their state, they're his.

For everything you need, all your life, always rings entirely true for Terry.

And in the brief moments beloved does remember?

Terry Silver isn't a crier but I do imagine him, tight arms around beloved, practically hysterically weeping and laughing into their chest because they still think it's 1985 and just asked for Margaret who has been dead for quite a while.

write about jeff the killer

ok so basically one fun thing about me is that every original creation ive ever made has had Jeff the Killer in it because hes public domain and i find it unimaginably funny to think that he's in every setting ever

in the process i have thought about how id improve the original jeff the killer (including elements of other "fixes" and retellings with my own spin of hereditary nonsense and generational trauma) . jeffin it up under the cut . Sorry if i repeat his name too much its just really funny to read out loud that way

content warnings: sh, extremely lightly implied incest, homophobia, implied parental neglect, Jeff the Killer

When grandpa died, Jeff, 7 years old as he recalled, as if he could ever forget every little moment of his birthday, heard a lot of terms to describe it. Though no celebration before had been especially glamorous, Jeff's excitement for the day was bashed rather fast when there was not only not so much as the scent of cake in the kitchen, but the grim news of his grandfather's passing and his mother weeping in the kitchen.

Around the point he found out that what had occurred was apparently hereditary, in hindsight, Jeff thought that was probably the point where his life began to go downhill.

Fatal familial insomnia is a rare genetic condition, provoking dementia, muscle twitching, and most prominently, total inability to sleep. Like many prions, there is no treatment, prevention, or really anything you could possibly do if it happened.

He knew because the days he was allowed on the computer were mostly spent researching what happened to his grandfather. Something about it scared his little mind so much that it generated what his mother titled an "obsession." His older brother Lou was kinder, dubbing it an interest in learning or some other equally flowery way of saying Jeff was thinking way too fucking much about this goddamn disease.

His father did not notice. Indeed, the whole ordeal from his grandpa's death to Jeff randomly getting too scared to sleep (counterproductively...) seemed lost on the salaryman.

----

Somniphobia is the irrational fear of sleep.

As stupid as it was, Jeff found the news that his blood may carry something that will kill him through the lack of something so inoccuous to be a vessel to avoid it completely.

The standard age of onset was 50 or so, but it could be as early as 13, and Jeff's constant self-torture went above and beyond in developing paranoia that he had finally gotten FFI. At that point Lou's endless empathy had somehow been expended, and even he had to giggle when Jeff opened up about it.

Jeff didn't like being laughed at.

Lou shooed him out of his room, and the young Jeff went back to reading case after case from Reddit to 4chan to forums with inconceivable names he didn't even remember, all throughout the night, up until he inevitably conked out whether he wanted to or not. Little awaited him but nightmares.

----

Jeff's first time seeing a dead body was rather formative. At 14, he and some friends (far be it from him to remember their names,) went out into the woods, and there it was: a dead boy around their age, charred beyond recognition. They gazed at it wordlessly, and when each went home, the image stayed in most of their minds in a place of horror, a reflection of something that could happen to them.

Not for Jeff.

Jeff saw the closed eyelids, and in a moment of awareness admittedly rare for the boy, he saw rest he noted he was keeping himself from getting. Every day was marked by the lack of it, and for a moment he envied that dead boy, not in the sense of death, but in the sense that he looked like he was asleep.

That night, his nightmare consisted of his grandfather, finally waking up in the coffin he was buried in. Not dead.

Merely an unfortunate subject of sleep debt.

As he clawed at the wood, as his nails sloughed off in his desperate attempt to escape, as blood began dripping down onto him, Jeff got closer and closer to waking up, but, well.

For a nightmare, when he eventually did shoot up in his bed, he noted he got such restful sleep.

----

Lou was frequently bullied. The poor guy had a birthmark that made it look like one half of his face kinda smiled all the time but not really. It was actually kind of uncanny to look at to a few kids.

This bothered Jeff. He cared a lot, maybe a little too much about his darling brother, and seeing it really upset him.

Because Jeff didn't like to be laughed at.

So it was up to a few dumb ideas on his part. He admitted it wasn't a very smart plan, and he would probably be caught. A cop was gonna come to his house and take him away for the rest of his life, maybe. But on the off chance that that wasn't true, he decided to play a little prank on the main 3 guys that picked on his darling brother.

Contrary to his expectations, there were no survivors.

Secondarily, there was no suspect.

The case went cold. Maybe Lou had an idea, but of course, his loyal big brother chalked it up to paranoia.

Jeff didn't like to be laughed at.

----

Jeff had problems making friends.

He didn't have a good memory (symptom 2, dementia), was frequently tired (symptom 3, total insomnia), and came off as what a teacher might refer to as "special." His mother disagreed, and he listened to his mother because she was always right, even if she was clearly wrong.

A misplaced "hey Charles" to a delinquent named some shit like Bob might have even gotten him hit. He didn't want to be hurt, nor did he want to have to hurt someone. He saw that as a rather steep inconvenience that took a lot of planning, one that can easily go wrong and send them straight to what he referred to, in his mind, as sleep.

He was scared to send the rest of them to sleep. Jeff was afraid of sleep.

Eventually, though, the band of delinquents at his school invited him to a party. Admitting it openly, he kind of idolized them. They found him kind of funny and almost cute, and more than one boy stared at him a little too much. Jeff didn't understand because he thought that was what boys did to girls, and Jeff wasn't a girl. Maybe the long hair made him look like one.

He appreciated the attention in any case. He liked to stare at that boy too. He actually bothered to remember that boy's name (or he did back then.) He couldn't tell you now.

----

At the party Jeff sat on the other side of that boy during spin the bottle, next to some guy named Bob apparently or some shit like it. He mostly recognized him because he had brought this bottle of whiskey for him and only for him. No one noticed or pointed it out, but he could hear his mother at the church going on and on and on and

The bottle landed on him, and the delinquent bunch started laughing.

The boy in front of him looked hopeful for a moment, but that disappeared with the first chortle and the bottle quietly spun again. Jeff felt disappointed.

He didn't know why.

It showed on his face, because first the girls started laughing and then went the boys and then went his mother in his head going on on and on and on and on. He was getting very tired of it.

Jeff didn't like to be laughed at.

He pretend to giggle as well for a moment. "I need to pee."

Blurting it out really awkwardly seemed to convince them. It sounded repulsive to him, personally.

Coming back from the bathroom, some girl had left. The boy he liked more than the rest and the boy apparently named some shit like Bob were, for whatever reason, squabbling.

He couldn't tell you now what they were going on about, but he remembered what he said.

"It seems like you're overreacting a little bit."

The boy named Bob(?) stared right at him, eyes like the headlights of a car, as he wrestled his lighter out of his pocket after unscrewing the cap on his bottle of whiskey.

"You little shit, I'll make you pay for that," he slurred.

----

At the hospital, he was informed his burns were relatively mild. Lou hugged him and sobbed and Jeff let him even though he thought he was just overreacting a little bit.

Jeff didn't like to be cried over, either.

He wondered if the boy he liked more than the rest would see him.

Of course he didn't.

When he was released, the looks he had originally boasted were fading. His hair was no longer the natural, deep black it originally was, and suddenly it seemed entirely ashy and generally upsetting and gross. The scars pockmarked his body, and they reminded him somewhat of a fractal he saw once, at least in shape. He looked awful.

Jeff stopped coming to school about as soon as Lou stopped forcing him.

He didn't really feel the same. He felt like there was a big wad of burning cotton stuffed in his skull, something the alcoholic flames had set alight.

The night he was discharged from the hospital, he took a good look at his darling brother. He saw a certain beauty in the "smile," and in the unblinking, teary eyes. He felt bad.

He felt ugly.

Standing before the bathroom mirror with a knife, he thought he could make it better. His pale face was reflected back at him with such a hideous series of scars that it felt like mockery.

Jeff didn't like to be laughed at.

----

Right as Jeff felt beautiful, his mother saw the devil.

He felt safe now that it hurt to close his eyes. The cuts on his eyelids burned, blood in his eyes, and dear god, what a radiant smile!

He would never have to sleep again, the way it hurt.

As she called for a priest nearby, his father finally looked at him as if Jeff mattered. Armed with a baseball bat, he saw the devil in his son and-

----

Blood on the floor. His mother face down, and his father face up, eyelids forced shut. He decided to give them smiles they didn't have in life. Jeff liked to make people smile.

Unfortunately, as Lou gazed down at Jeff, he was so unimaginably scared that not a single thing even comparable to a smile graced his face. He looked almost like one of those split masks, between tragedy and comedy.

Jeff cared a little too much about Lou. Killing their parents had felt good, but it felt a lot worse now that Lou didn't like what he had done.

"You see?"

Jeff uttered. The smoke in his lungs gave the quiet boy a rasp.

"I look just like you now."

His darling brother was too beautiful to kill.

As he turned and walked out the door, Lou waited for the police to arrive. He didn't run. Jeff's loyal brother didn't do a thing.

He saw his parents, sound asleep.

The police had taken him, but when more and more bodies turned up just like the ones they'd found, the cops found it harder and harder to justify keeping the catatonic boy.

IMPORTANT PLEASE READDDD

Hey guys, unfortunately I'm going to have to take a hiatus for awhile :-( a lot is going on in my personal life with school and work, and as of recently a few weeks back around Christmas my grandmother caught covid and it really knocked her down and made her extremely weak. She can't really walk anymore, needs oxygen, has bowel incontinence, and dementia. She was in the hospital until about a week ago and was going to be living with my family for the time being until we figured out exactly what my nana needs. I honestly dont know why they discharged her because ... man she was still really bad and they knew that she wouldn't have a nurse to come to our house yet! She was residing in my sisters room while my sister moved into our father's office. My sister and i were taking care of her full time for a week, which was extremely stressful. My sister and i had to make sure she was eating/drinking, cleaning up after her (changing her diaper) constantly changing her sheets and making sure she wasn't taking her catheter or diaper off because she kept doing it lmfao. My sister and i told our dad she absolutely needs more assistance than what my sister and i were providing her, we couldn't even get her properly clean like in the bath since she still had a catheter and could barely move we would have to wipe her down! She started to get sick again and we brought her back to the hospital (which she ended up falling and hitting her head). They tried to discharge her back to our house again but eventually my dad got them to discharge her to a nursing home. She's about an hour away, and might need to go to more of a facility/rehab rather than an elderly home because of how sick she is. It's not something we can exactly afford, its going to take whatever little money she gets by the government (since shes not working obviously) and whatever medical/insurance can cover. There really isnt any other choice, we dont have anyone in the family who can dedicated 100% of their time taking care of her (which would have probably been my mom but shes dead), even then my nana would probably still need a nurse constantly if she were to live at our house. My dad and i have been dealing with her insurance since some of it is in my name, and we found out she stopped paying her bills months ago. This isnt surprising considering how downhill she has gone, even before she was sick but my dad wouldnt listen to my sister and i who were still taking care of her weekly because she just got so weak while she still lived in her apartment (due to old age and a number of medical issues). My nana is also incredibly stubborn and did not want to move out of her apartment for as long as she could. She still thinks she can go back but obviously not. So its been really messy! Really messy and stressful and sad LOL. On top I am also having computer issues which is preventing me from saving any art I draw, which honestly im probably just going to have to get a new computer at this point. If you have commissioned me please reach out, I will also be sending messages when i can to my commissioners and we can further discuss it. I am open to refunds at this time! Unless you are willing to wait until i come back, which could be a few months. I absolutely cannot focus on art professionally right now due to these circumstances. I haven't felt this since my mom got sick and passed away in 2016 so it's really... taking a toll on me and my family. Im sorry if this post is a mess there is so much more to this situation and its so complicated i tried to just go over the most important stuff. Thank you guys again. I will be back soon!

Amrita Questions

I was listening to "If We Were Vampires" by Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit today, and it got me thinking about Amrita, from Avatar TWOW. There isn't much focus on the subject, except for the fact that it stops human aging.

Okay so now I have all of these questions.

Does it stop both mental and physical aging? Like what would happen if a child was injected with Amrita; would their brains continue to develop? I don't think that would make sense. And if it stopped both, it would halt mental diseases that typically come with old age (not always) like Alzheimer's and dementia.

Would it also prevent your body from developing different diseases? (Not Contracting) I feel like there are certain cancers that can hit people at any age, so would that still be a problem. I understand there would probably be a cure for Cancer at this point in time, but would diseases like that be able to develop? I think the main question is how far does it delve into immortality?

If your brain doesn't continue developing, does that mean, if you use Amrita at age 18, you'll never be able to legally drink/smoke because you never truly reached 21 and your brain isn't at the correct maturity level to enjoy these substances correctly?

The idea of immortality in this world is just so interesting and I wanted to see what other people thought.

Grandpa And Grandma Turn Young Again Episode 3 Review - The Darn Hourglass

The main villain of the story is that darn hourglass. It has the power to change the grandparents from young to old and the reverse. Given that Shouzou gets conflicted when he reverts back to his original elderly self and gets insecure over it, it really is the antagonist of the story. It also pegs the question: why is it there? What purpose does it have for the Saitou couple? Did eating the golden apple curse or bless them?

The first half of the episode is just cuteness from the grandparents featuring Shiori and Mino. Shiori brings in a PS3 as Takahiro stated that it could help prevent dementia. Shouzou and Ine play a game for the first time and while they question game logic like NPC dialogue and looting items from people’s homes without consequences, they eventually get hooked into the zombie game, Rice Field Hazard III, and earn all the trophies in a day. Damn, they just beat the crap out of all the existing speed runners out there. The Shiori and Mino moments were cute too. Shiori and Mino are cousins, and it’s obvious that their personalities are very different with Mino being energetic and Shiori being a tsundere.

The latter half of the episode actually drills into some harsh facts about the couple. When the couple go to Takahiro for a check-up due to Shouzou reverting back to his original self, it turns out that Shouzou and Ine are getting healthier due to their newfound youth. Shouzou’s health is surprisingly great for his age and Ine’s current self has it so that she has the body and energy of a woman in her twenties. This causes Ine to realize something. If she stays this way, that means she could live another seventy years, but if she does so, everyone in her family would die before her, even Mino and Shiori. It’s obvious that Ine is terrified and does not want immortality. Shouzou reassures her that they won’t outlive them and that they would revert back to normal soon. It really hits home how some people perceive immortality. Some desire it, while others like Ine fear it. It would make sense to fear it because if everyone around you dies, you’ll be all alone; you’d probably go “well, I’ll make new friends”, but they’ll die too and if society changes during your immortality, would you accept these changes?

Another rather somber moment of this episode is Ine’s flashback of the time she moved to the countryside during WWII. Her parents passed away, so she had to move in with her maternal relatives. Before moving, she was attending a school in Tokyo for young ladies, meaning that her family was rather wealthy. While she had a hard time adjusting to country life, meeting Shouzou melted her cold heart and that’s how she mellowed from her stern and tsundere self to her loving self.

With these somber scenes, I just can’t help but worry about a sad ending for these two. The manga for this story have chapters that are only 5 pages long, so they’re practically grouping a bunch of them together to make one episode. I’ve marathoned the ones they have so far and it makes me wonder if the current arc will be animated or if they’ll deviate and make an anime original ending. What are your thoughts on this episode?

full name: aleksander brookes, goes by alex

age: 38

gender & pronouns: male - he/him

time living in redwood: arrived beginning of august (~3 months)

occupation: blacksmith & animal handler

occupation pre-outbreak: horse rancher

sexuality: heterosexual/heteromantic

relationship status: single

Aleksander ‘Alex’ Brookes is the third-youngest of Jack and Elena Brookes, the youngest boy. He grew up in Pilot Point, Texas on a ranch that raised quarter horses with his two older brothers, sister, parents, and maternal grandmother. From a young age Alex interacted and loved horses, and was able to learn about the business side of things from his mother as he got older. He learned about his Romanian heritage and culture from his grandmother, becoming fluent in the language and carrying his heritage with pride into adulthood. Alex never found a true passion outside of the business like his sister. He loved the horses and any other animals that he was able to interact with, and he loved watching his parents run the business. He would often try to come up with fun new ideas to try that he hoped would expand the ranch and clientele, from special showcases to word-of-mouth advertisement.

After high school, Alex was accepted at A&M, majoring in Equine Sciences and minoring in Business. He came home as much as possible due to the relatively short drive between campus and home. During his last year in college, his sister Cassandra entered into a relationship with his good friend Steve. He was hesitant to accept it at first. He valued his relationship with both of them, and didn’t want it to change because of this new development. Over time, however, it became clear that they were happy together and he came to accept and support them. Everyone in his family loved them together. A little over a year into their relationship, things began to change in subtle ways, though nothing that Alex put much thought into. When Steve and Cass broke up, Alex was sad for them, but it didn’t occur to him that there was something more to the story. After Alex graduated, he spent the next couple of years on his family’s ranch, using his new degree to help his family and gain even more experience.

Finally he got a job offer in Terrell, Texas to work for a small ranch that had recently been inherited by someone who had never worked with horses. Alex was able to show the new owner how to care for the horses, run the business that had been left behind, and everything in between. Even though the job didn’t pay buckets of cash, he was incredibly happy working on the ranch and for the people who owned it. He had a romance with the owner’s niece, even getting ready to propose to her. Unfortunately she later dropped the news that she was cheating on him with an old flame, and the two parted ways.

However, it had to come to an end. Alex’s boss began declining in health due to dementia, and soon became unable to work on the ranch. As capable as Alex was, he simply couldn’t handle the workload all by himself with minimal help, and there weren’t enough funds to hire another helper. The difficult decision was made to shut down the ranch after Alex had worked there for several incredible years. He sold all but one horse, a foal that had been born a couple of months after he had arrived at the ranch that the owner had let him named Cici. She had always been his favorite horse, and he couldn’t bear to let her go.

Wanting a fresh start, Alex decided to head north to visit his sister in West Virginia at her own ranch. Just as Alex thought things were looking up, rumors of a deadly virus began to make their way to West Virginia. Within a month of his arrival, Alex and Cass were making plans with the rest of their family to congregate in West Virginia in order to prevent the worst from happening. Things were actually alright for a year. The world slowly began to fall apart, but he had his family and that was what mattered. He tried his best to remain optimistic. Then a group of raiders came to steal the horses. His parents were killed in the chaos of trying to defend the horses, along with the raiders managing to capture a few horses, Cici included. It became much harder to be optimistic.

Things once again took a turn for the worse when Alex and his brothers were out on a short supply run while Cass stayed to watch the horses. Nathan ended up with minor injuries after a close call with a group of walkers, leaving him unable to walk for a short period of time. Though Alex and Andrei were hesitant to leave their brother alone, even for a short period of time, Nathan convinced them to continue searching for supplies while they were outside of the ranch. Alex and Andrei took a couple of hours to continue their mission before coming back to camp, immediately knowing that something was wrong. They were met with the horrific site of Nathan’s cold body and one less bullet in the shotgun he’d had for protection. Clearly their run in with the group of walkers hadn’t been as close as they had thought. Just as the brothers were attempting to process the scene, Alex felt a bag being pulled over his head and a blunt object against his skull.

By the time the two brothers were able to escape the group that had captured them, they were over a hundred miles away from the ranch from what they were able to discover about their new surroundings. They had nothing except the clothes on their backs. It was a miracle in itself that they were able to survive the first few nights attempting to get back to the ranch, much less that they ran across a small commune in the middle of nowhere. A small area with about 50 residents, the commune was more than happy to share their food and protection in exchange for Andrei’s medical knowledge and Alex’s physical labor. He was adamant that their stay was temporary, but one month turned into two turned into three. His desire to go back to the ranch and find Cass never left his mind, but it was easy to continue pushing the trip later and later. It became more difficult as he grew to care about everyone in the commune, considering many of them family.

It was Cass’s birthday when Alex decided that he was leaving the commune, and he wouldn’t let anyone stop him. Even Andrei.

He had known that Andrei would find it difficult to leave the commune, but he had never thought that his brother might refuse to go when they needed to find Cass. Yet no amount of persuasion would change his mind. Alex had said nothing was going to stop him, and he meant it. After gathering up the necessary supplies, he headed off back into the wilderness without his older brother.

Cass wasn’t at the ranch. It was clear that the ranch had been abandoned for at least a year. Thankfully, the letter that she had left was still in their home, though nothing else of value had been left inside. Copying the note onto another piece of paper so Andy could have it if he ever decided to leave the commune, Alex left and began to make his way to Redwood.

TLDR: Alex is my brand new little cowboy babe who is Cass's older brother (and very close with her) who is working as a blacksmith and animal handler when needed. He's kinda jaded and defensive right now given all he's been through (who isn't), but he's very much a good, genuine guy who is trying his best and most of all trying his best for Cass.

The best-selling Korean writer Kim Hye-jin’s first novel to be translated into English, “Concerning My Daughter,” begins with an awkward question. Eating udon noodles with her mother, a 30-year-old daughter asks if she and her girlfriend, Lane, can move into the mother’s house. The daughter (who is only ever referred to by Lane’s nickname for her, “Green”) can’t afford a flat of her own because of her unpredictable work as an “itinerant” university lecturer. The mother — our narrator, also unnamed — agrees reluctantly, needing extra income to supplement what she earns caring for dementia patients. She also recognizes that her only daughter needs help, even if that means helping Lane too, whom the mother despises on principle because she is not a man. The mother wrestles with her disapproval of her daughter’s life choices both in private and with her patient Jen, a successful and well-traveled woman who never had children, and now has no family to care for her.

A middle-aged woman with an unglamorous job, the narrator is both scrutinizing (of her daughter) and scrutinized by a society that has not fulfilled its duty to support her. Kim plays close attention to the precariousness — bodily, financial, social — of not only the mother, but also her daughter and Jen. The lesbian daughter has been born into a generation with few job prospects; and Jen’s mind and body have deteriorated too much for her to take care of herself.

This is an admirably nuanced portrait of prejudice. The mother’s greatest anxiety is how other people will perceive her daughter, not only because she is socially conservative, but also because she fears her daughter will not have children, and will end up in old age in the same situation as Jen, with no one to visit or tend to her. Jamie Chang’s precise, pared-back translation conveys the mother’s internal struggle between her biases and her love for her daughter in a careful, balanced way, so that the reader is able to understand her position without being asked to endorse it. The mother understands that her outbursts are unacceptable (“How can you do this unless you’re out to make me suffer,” she asks her daughter, “you don’t care even the tiniest bit what your old mother thinks, now, do you?”), but she cannot prevent them. “My emotions carry me away to a place of no return,” she thinks. Wisely, Kim chooses to report rather than directly quote the mother’s worst homophobic tirade, against Lane. We learn only that the mother “let the words burn in the flames of disgust, resentment and hate.”

As the novel goes on, the daughter is badly injured at a protest against the firing of her university colleagues for their sexuality; and budget constraints at the nursing home lead the mother to bring Jen into her own home to see out the end of her life. The daughter’s vulnerability, combined with Lane’s tender care and the proximity of death, helps the mother start to see the errors in her thinking; but no promises are made. This is not a redemption story, nor does it aspire to be. The mother wants to be able to tell her daughter that she doesn’t care whether she likes men or women, that she believes her daughter and Lane should be treated with equal respect by society — but she doesn’t tell her these things. “Will the time come when I will be able to say these things out loud?” she wonders.

There is the occasional tendency to lay on too thickly the resonances between the mother’s relationships with Jen and with her daughter. “Am I seeing myself in her because I’ve given up hope of depending on my daughter in old age?” she asks herself about Jen. But it’s generally a tightly conceived and executed work, and one that boldly takes on the daunting task of humanizing someone whose prejudice has made her cruel.

Drowning in Cats

There are several things that can prevent your cat from exiting a body of water. The unfortunate outcomes of that can be immediately fatal in the case of drowning, or can cause near drowning, an act that may lead to further complications down the road-- even death. Near drowning is, in short, defined as inhaling a large amount of water and surviving. The survival typically lasts beyond 24 hours, although you may notice symptoms before and within that time-frame.

Symptoms of Drowning in Cats

Near drowning occurs consistently in four stages. The first noticeable stage is your cat will make rapid swimming motions and attempt to hold their breath. Secondly, they will begin choking once the water fills their lungs. The next stage concerns gagging and vomiting. Lastly, your cat will lose consciousness, which may eventually lead to death.

Beyond the four stages, there are a few other symptoms to be on the lookout for:

Blue/gray tongue/mucous membrane

Fluid coming from mouth/nose

Extreme anxiety/distress

Dilated pupils

Difficulty regulating body temperature

Signs of shock (e.g. increased heart rate, weak pulse)

Causes of Drowning in Cats

There are a handful of situations that can induce your cat into experiencing drowning or near drowning:

Age (very young/very old may lose strength faster or be unable to swim)

Medical conditions (e.g. blindness, seizures, dementia)

Exhaustion (e.g. unable to exit a pool)

Owner negligence (e.g. unattended pet, young children bathing pet unsupervised)

Diagnosis of Drowning in Cats

If your cat appears to be behaving normally after having been underwater, then your veterinarian may only want to keep them under 24-hour observation to be certain they don't experience any symptoms. For the more serious near drowning cases, your vet will want to perform several diagnostic tests.

Two common exams are a Complete Blood Count (CBC) and a biochemistry profile, both of which are useful in checking over the white blood cells or any damage that may have occurred to internal organs due to oxygen deprivation. Another routine check requires the use of a pulse oximeter, a clip placed on your cat's lip, to measure oxygenation. Further ways to see how well your cat can oxygenate is by obtaining an arterial blood gas. The result of that will tell your vet if your cat requires oxygen therapy.

Chest x-rays are typically taken as well as they can tell your vet if pneumonia or a pulmonary edema is present. As pulmonary edemas can take up to two days to develop, routine x-rays may be required. In the case of pneumonia (or contaminated water), your vet may utilize a transtracheal aspiration (TTA) to sample the fluid in the lungs, which helps determine what antibiotics may be needed.

In the event your cat was submerged in fresh water, a urinalysis will be useful to detect any damage to the red blood cells, resulting in hemoglobin in the urine.

Treatment of Drowning in Cats

Treatment of near drowning varies as it depends on how long your cat was submerged, what damage was sustained, and the type of water.

Hospitalization

No matter how your cat may be behaving, it is best for them to undergo 24-hour observation after a near drowning as symptoms may still reveal themselves over time. If your cat has any difficulty breathing, your vet will administer oxygen therapy to assist. Once oxygen and/or IV therapy has failed, your cat will be connected to a ventilator to breathe for them, usually for 24-72 hours until they gain the strength to breathe on their own.

Your vet may also use a bronchodilator such as terbutaline to improve breathing by dilating the airways, but it tends to only have a minor, temporary effect. If there is water in the lungs, then diuretics can help in ridding it.

Medication

Antibiotics will be administered if pneumonia is detected or your cat was submerged in water that may be contaminated.

Other medication that will be sent via IV includes drugs such as steroids, which are used in the case of cerebral edema. Fluids are also used to reduce dehydration and in the treatment of shock.

Recovery of Drowning in Cats

Recovering from near drowning may take some time depending on the extent of your cat's injuries. It is best to change up their normal routine to keep them relaxed and taking it easy. They may have experienced lung damage from mild to severe, so you should not allow them to exercise much, if at all, for a week or so following discharge from the hospital.

If your cat has experienced severe complications such as pneumonia or a pulmonary edema, they will have difficulty breathing, so keeping them calm and exercise-free is important until their health improves. Try to follow up with your vet even if your cat appears normal as your vet can conduct the proper tests in order to see whether or not your pet has recovered, especially in the case antibiotics are being administered.

Dementia notes

Dementia misunderstandings

Perhaps not surprisingly, as there is still much to learn about the condition, there is much misunderstanding and confusion about dementia. In general, we still don’t know exactly what causes it and although there are treatments, there is no known cure. However, there are certain things we can say for definite and which should help you understand the disorder.

Dementia is not a natural part of ageing. If it was, everyone over the age of 65 would have it. It also occurs in younger people too.

You cannot catch dementia – it is not contagious.

People with dementia are not children, and will respond to how you treat them. They can still understand what is going on, even if they can’t tell you they understand.

Many people with dementia, with the right support and access to help and information, can lead productive and happy lives for many years.

Is it on the increase?

The outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) has led to unprecedented changes in the work and behaviour of general practices, therefore data relating to any primary care activity undertaken or recorded during the pandemic (March 2020 onwards) has to be interpreted with caution.

The main points are[1]:

since April 2020, there has been a consistent pattern of lower diagnosed prevalence rates for dementia in over 65 year-olds compared to before the pandemic

since January 2020, there has been a consistent pattern of lower proportions of dementia patients receiving a care plan or review compared to before the pandemic, with the gap widening as the year progressed

the variation across England of the proportion of patients receiving a care plan or review has increased significantly in December 2020 compared to before the pandemic

since March 2020, there has been a consistent pattern of higher antipsychotic prescribing rates for dementia patients compared to before the pandemic

About dementia

It is normal for memory to be affected by stress, tiredness, certain illnesses and medicines. But if you're becoming increasingly forgetful and it's affecting your daily life, particularly if you're over the age of 65, it's a good idea to talk to a GP about the early signs of dementia.

Dementia is not only about memory loss. It can also affect the way you speak, think, feel and behave.

What is dementia

Dementia is a syndrome (a group of related symptoms) associated with an ongoing decline in brain functioning. It’s caused by different diseases that damage the brain. The symptoms get worse over time and include:

memory loss

confusion and needing help with daily tasks

problems with language and understanding

changes in behaviour.

Dementia is progressive, which means symptoms may be relatively mild at first, but they get worse over time.

There are many different causes of dementia, and many different types.

People often get confused about the difference between Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia and, together with vascular dementia, makes up the majority of cases.

Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer’s disease is a physical disease that affects the brain. It is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German physician who in 1906, first described "a peculiar disease" — one of profound memory loss and microscopic brain changes. Microscopic changes in the brain begin long before the first signs of memory loss.  The brain has 100 billion nerve cells (neurons). Each nerve cell connects with many others to form communication networks. Groups of nerve cells have special jobs. Some are involved in thinking, learning and remembering. Others help us see, hear and smell.

To do their work, brain cells operate like tiny factories. They receive supplies, generate energy, construct equipment and get rid of waste. Cells also process and store information and communicate with other cells. Keeping everything running requires coordination as well as large amounts of fuel and oxygen.  Scientists believe Alzheimer's disease prevents parts of a cell's factory from running well. They are not sure where the trouble starts. But just like a real factory, backups and breakdowns in one system cause problems in other areas. As damage spreads, cells lose their ability to do their jobs and, eventually die, causing irreversible changes in the brain[2].

Vascular dementia

Vascular dementia is the second most common type of dementia (after Alzheimer's disease). Everyone experiences it differently. Symptoms vary depending on the person, the cause and the areas of the brain that are affected.  The most common symptoms of vascular dementia during the early stages are:

Problems with planning or organising, making decisions or solving problems

Difficulties following a series of steps (such as when cooking a meal)

Slower speed of thought

Problems concentrating, including short periods of sudden confusion.

A person in the early stages may also have difficulties with their memory and their language.

Many things increase a person’s chances of developing vascular dementia. For example, their age, other health conditions and lifestyle factors.

These are called ‘risk factors’:

Ageing – The biggest risk factor for vascular dementia is ageing. Once a person gets to 65, their risk of developing the condition roughly doubles every five years.

Health conditions – There are lots of health problems that increase a person’s risk of developing vascular dementia.  These include: 

cardiovascular disease

cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA)

sleep apnoea

Lifestyle factors, such as: 

Physical inactivity

Smoking

Unhealthy diet

Too much alcohol

Ethnicity – People from Black African, Black Caribbean or South Asian ethnic groups in the UK have a higher risk of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases than people from White ethnic groups, especially if they are overweight. This means they may also have a higher risk of vascular dementia.

Most people who are living with dementia have Alzheimer’s disease or vascular dementia. However, many other diseases and conditions can also cause dementia:

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) – is a type of dementia caused by Lewy bodies, which are clumps of protein in the cells of the brain. In this disease, tiny clumps of proteins known as Lewy bodies appear in the nerve cells of the brain. Lewy bodies cause a range of symptoms, some of which are shared by Alzheimer’s disease and some by Parkinson’s disease. For this reason, DLB is often wrongly diagnosed. About 1 in 10 people with dementia has DLB.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) – is sometimes called Pick's disease or frontal lobe dementia. The first noticeable FTD symptoms are changes in personality and behaviour and/or difficulties with language. There are two broad types of Frontotemporal dementia:

Behavioural variant FTD – where damage to the frontal lobes of the brain mainly causes problems with behaviour and personality.

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) occurs when damage to the temporal lobes – on either side of the head nearest the ears – causes language problems.

Mixed dementia – is a condition in which a person has more than one type of dementia

Young-onset dementia – There are around 900,000 people in the UK living with dementia, and the likelihood of developing dementia increases significantly with age. When a person develops dementia before the age of 65, this is known as ‘young-onset dementia’. Over 42,000 people in the UK are living with young-onset dementia. Like all people with dementia, younger people may experience a wide range of symptoms, especially in the early stages of dementia. However, they are likely to need different support from older people.

Alcohol-related dementia – is a type of alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD). If a person has alcohol-related ‘dementia’ they will struggle with day-to-day tasks. This is because of the damage to their brain, caused by regularly drinking too much alcohol over many years. The person may have memory loss and difficulty thinking things through. They may have problems with more complex tasks, such as managing their finances. The symptoms may cause problems with daily life. For example, the person may no longer be able to cook a meal.

And many others – see https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/types-dementia

Your role[3]

By developing an understanding of dementia, you could make someone who is feeling isolated feel valued and welcome. You are in a position where you can influence the experience of a person with dementia. Thoughtful and helpful service from you could make a big difference to someone who is feeling vulnerable. You could also directly help somebody in difficulty or a situation that is uncomfortable for them or others.

People experience dementia in different ways and they can be affected differently by the people and environment around them.  In the UK 900,000 people are living with dementia[4].  They – along with their carers, friends and family members – depend on a wide range of products and services. They are looking for organisations that show support and understanding.  Don’t underestimate how important your knowledge and understanding might be.

When you are assisting a person with dementia, remember the following points.

Firstly, allow the person to take their time.

Try to understand how they might be feeling.

Put the person at ease – be friendly and smile.

Consider their feelings and respond to the emotions they are expressing.

If they are experiencing difficulty or appear distressed, ask direct questions such as whether there is someone they would like you to call, rather than ‘What would you like me to do?’

Communicate clearly

The key to helping someone is being able to communicate with them. A person with dementia may not understand what you are doing or remember what you have said. Treat them respectfully by addressing them in conversation as well as any partner or carer they may be with.

Body language and physical contact

Make eye contact

Make sure that your body language and facial expressions match what you are saying.

Never stand too close or stand over someone to communicate.

Do not cover your mouth. The person should be able to see your face clearly.

Speak clearly and calmly.

Use short, simple sentences.

Speak at a slightly slower pace.

Avoid speaking sharply or raising your voice.

Don’t talk about people with dementia as if they are not there or talk to them as you would to a young child.

Listen carefully to what the person is saying, and give them plenty of encouragement.

If you haven’t understood fully, tell the person what you have understood and check with them to see if you are right.

If possible, use visual clues – write your message down if the person is able to read and use objects or pictures to help the person understand. For example, show the person photographs of meals they can choose from.

Dealing with a difficult situation

Customer service can sometimes be demanding and stressful.  Practise your techniques for coping when your role is challenging and you are helping someone with dementia who is experiencing difficulties. Remember the following tips:

Stay calm.

Keep your breathing even.

Reassure the person with dementia or anyone with them that they are not under any pressure.

Explain to anyone else concerned that the situation is under control and that it will be resolved as soon as possible.

If the situation remains difficult, ask a colleague or supervisor for assistance.

For more help read “How to help people with dementia” - A guide for customer-facing staff. ©Alzheimer’s Society 2015   ISBN 978-1-906647-32-2

A useful resource is the Dementia & Housing Working Group ‘dementia information hub’.  The Dementia and Housing Working Group brings you a home for all of the best information, advice and support for people with dementia, their families and carers as well as policy makers, practitioners and academics.  https://padlet.com/dementiaandhousingworkinggroup/Dementia_Information_Hub

[1] Statistical commentary: Dementia profile, March 2021 update – Updated 5 July 2022 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dementia-profile-updates/statistical-commentary-dementia-profile-march-2021-update#:~:text=Dementia%20and%20Alzheimer's%20disease%20prevalence,(%20CI%204.3%20to%204.3).

[2] https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-alzheimers

[3] For more help read “How to help people with dementia” - A guide for customer-facing staff. ©Alzheimer’s Society 2015   ISBN 978-1-906647-32-2

[4] https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-us/news-and-media/facts-media

How Old Age Home in India Make Healthy Living Easy?

Your riches lie in your health. It's the one thing that allows you to accomplish everything else in life, making it the most valuable item you own. Seniors who lead healthy lives have more time for the things that are important in life and more chances to enjoy them. 

In a Centres for Disease Control and Prevention poll, 82% of respondents between the ages of 65 and 74 said they were in good or excellent health. The proper atmosphere is essential, regardless of whether you are one of them or are battling health problems you would like to better manage. For the following ten, twenty, and more years, Old Age Home in India—also referred to as continuing care retirement communities or CCRCs—assist you in achieving and preserving excellent health. 

You could have developed a greater appreciation for excellent health as you've gotten older, as well as a stronger will to stay well. It's also possible that your idea of health has changed from being a fit body with lots of muscles to being more comprehensive. According to the research, social ties, vitality, emotional well-being, and an active lifestyle are considered essential elements of good health by older persons, and they have valid concerns. Reducing the risk of chronic illness can be effectively achieved by leading a happy and balanced life. 

Life Plan Communities are friendly places where you may start your next project. They provide elders with great cuisine, a safe and encouraging atmosphere, friendly company, and a dedication to leading healthy lives.

How the appropriate LPC may assist you in achieving your health. 

More Time To Do What You Love 

A fundamental part of living is vacuuming, cooking, thorough cleaning, and other routine tasks. They're also not particularly enjoyable. They can also become a major cause of worry as you get older. Maintaining a house might also become riskier for certain folks. Fall risk is increased by vacuuming stairs, cleaning gutters, and other important duties. Is it truly your desire to dedicate the next phase of your life to clearing an endless to-do list, even if your flexibility is at its peak? 

Daily chores like landscaping and house upkeep are assisted by an Old age home in India. You just need to visit the grocery shop and cook when you feel like it because they provide delicious dishes. More time to engage in your passions is the result. Enjoyment and happiness might inspire you to maintain your health as much as feasible. Also, lowering stress might enhance one's health. Anxiety, depression, cancer, and dementia are just a few of the illnesses that are linked to chronic stress. Including wellness in your day may seem simpler if you have more time and experience less stress. Healthy living may coexist with enjoyment, particularly when your stresses are less. 

An Environment That Prioritizes Health 

Whether you want to try going for more frequent walks or just want to spend more time having deep conversations with the people you care about, leading a healthy lifestyle becomes a habit. Good habits are simpler to establish and maintain in the correct setting. Just think of how much simpler it is to exercise every day in a lovely, walkable neighborhood and how challenging it may be to eat healthily when you don't have time to prepare meals or go grocery shopping. To make healthy living for seniors simple and enjoyable, Old age homes in India provide an extensive array of features and advantages. 

You're encouraged to come outside and move about by walkable green places. 

Fitness may be made safe and accessible with an enticing facility. 

Amicable neighbors guarantee constant companionability. 

Body, mind, and spirit well-being are the topics of several classes. 

In addition to lowering the chance of falls, a well-designed setting makes sure that extra assistance is always available. 

Some restaurants provide filling and delectable meals that simplify eating healthily. 

Activities such as cooking, exercise courses, buddy trips, and similar duties can be logistically challenging and need careful organization, appropriate transportation, and sometimes a significant financial investment. Everything is just outside your door at Life Plan Communities.  

Exceptional Food 

A nutritious diet lowers your chances of dementia, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and several cancers, which can help you live a longer and healthier life. But eating healthily needs some preparation and dedication. This can easily lead to discouragement and overwhelm, causing you to lose steam on your quest for a healthy diet. 

Meal planning, grocery shopping, and fridge cleaning don't have to take up hours of your week if you live in a Life Plan Community. Whether you're a vegetarian, trying to control your blood pressure, or just want to eat more fruits and vegetables, LPCs provide meals that suit a variety of palates and nutritional demands. Long-term adherence to healthy eating objectives is made simple by the tasty and expertly prepared meals.  

An Active Community 

It simplifies you to keep active when everyone else is having a good time. Seniors are encouraged to lead healthy lives by the dynamic, lively cultures found in Old age homes in India. Whether it's launching a new company or finally picking up that instrument you've always wanted to play, seeing people live life on their terms may encourage you to follow suit. 

Every community creates its programming with its people's needs in mind, and many times, the people who live there are the ones who initiate the programming. Dances, live music, game evenings, thought-provoking conversations, yoga sessions, and more are all available to you. This method incorporates exercise into everyday life as opposed to severing it from your favorite activities.

Plenty of Opportunities for Friendship 

In terms of social isolation, around 25% of older persons are. Keeping in touch with friends who live far away or no longer drive might make it challenging to stay in touch across time and distance. But companionship not only keeps you healthy but gives your life purpose. As detrimental to your health as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day, loneliness has been linked to research. 

Plans for life with prospects for new relationships just outside your door, and communities make friendship easy. Don’t worry if you find it difficult to strike up a conversation with strangers. Friendly neighborhood events guarantee that, despite your shyness, you may engage in meaningful social interaction. You can strengthen the bonds you already have with the appropriate kind of Old age home in India. Unplanned drop-ins seem more comfortable since you won't have to worry about keeping your house clean, preparing meals, or tending to visitors. Fun activities and cozy, welcoming surroundings might also encourage loved ones to come back more often.  

Less Stress

It feels terrible to be stressed. You have a higher chance of developing several chronic illnesses, which is also very bad for your health. Some catastrophes and traumas in life are unavoidable. On the other hand, there are many things you can do to lessen the stress associated with everyday tasks like cleaning, scheduling a nutritious meal, keeping up with housework, and managing money. 

Life Plan Communities provides community pricing that covers the majority of expenditures, which significantly stabilizes your monthly budget and helps to alleviate these typical worries. 

taking care of the planning and preparation of meals. 

having a well-kept home and cleaning services can lessen the amount of chores you have to do every day. 

giving your life more happiness and social support so that you may feel more prepared to write a better chapter in your life. 

Know that many previous occupants had similar worries if you're afraid about leaving your current residence. A lot of people who live in Old age homes in India are shocked by how easy the transition is and regret not moving sooner. Find out why you should think about moving to The Golden Estate if you're thinking about moving to a community that encourages seniors to lead healthy lives. 

Alzheimer’s disease – Why and how it happens, prevention and treatment

Alzheimer’s disorder takes place when the brain atrophies when the brain atrophies and the cells of the brain are about to die.

We’ve аll seen this disorder in old grandparents when they start forgetting small things and cannot function as before.

But you must know that is not only happening in aged persons, but these behavioral and mental changes also affect many young ones.

Overview

More than 50 million people are there living with this disorder or dementia.

Estimates show that around 5.8 million people in the US have Alzheimer’s disease among which 80% are 65 years and above and others are young-onset.

If you see the following signs in one, there may be a higher risk of Alzheimer's

Fail to recall the recent ceremony and talks are the early indicator.

They may forget to do the necessary routine of everyday which they have been doing for years.

Mental confusion and concentration becomes difficult.

Often dehydration and sudden weight loss or weight gain are an extreme mark

What are the exact symptoms of Alzheimer's ?

The essence of Alzheimer's is memory dropping. As it grabs the person's brain, this impairment becomes worse.

If a person is well aware of this , they must visit the doctor at the right time for the right treatment.

The inconvenience of Alzheimer's grows with

Inability to learn new things.

The person is confused about the evening hours of the day is it morning or afternoon, or is it breakfast time or lunchtime.

The person becomes isolated, socially inactive, and restless.

anger and mood swings hamper them.

No more trust in others And their daily schedule becomes confused.

Loss of appetite is a common symptom.

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New Days Could be Dawning

A 13-part series to illuminate the way forward in the grip of suicide, drug overdose, diabetic amputations, and mental health epidemics. Readers in this space are all familiar with the headlines: Football leads to brain damage and CTE.  Suicides continue to increase no matter how much more money DoD and the VA spend on Suicide Prevention strategies. Veterans are being subjected to BLAST injuries from their own weapons. Parents should avoid letting their children bang their heads in sports until they’re 14 years old. Society is experiencing increasing numbers of neurogenerative diseases at younger ages. More and more money is being spent on research to use psychoactive and hallucinogenic drugs to cope with mental health problems. 988 Suicide Crisis Line counselors are burned out, quitting, undertrained and understaffed. From football fields to battlefields to America’s classrooms and assisted living facilities, citizens and policymakers and the medical profession are wondering what can be done about suicides, “mental health” and the growing sense that daily life is causing damage to our brains. Whether it’s sports, or legal and illegal drugs, or violence, or online abuse and bullying and shaming, or mass casualty events, or the suicide and opioid epidemics, increasing numbers of young and old have “mental health problems.” We seem to be losing our minds. To a certain extent, what may seem like increased mental health challenges may be due to increased diagnoses stemming from better awareness and understanding. Increased media attention, social media, economic pressures, and isolation may contribute to higher awareness. Increased longevity and improved diagnoses may be behind seemingly larger numbers of age-related dementias. But doesn’t it just seem that there’s an abnormal number of people suffering from diminished capacity? And that no matter how much we spend, we keep getting more pleas from victims, survivors, care givers, politicians, medical staff and social media for solutions? Congressional hearings, Foundation Annual reports, investigative reporting, government fact-finding, and personal experience make it obvious that we’re falling behind while the suicide and drug overdose and mental health epidemics worsen. You’ve heard the adage: “Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” The TreatNOW Coalition has been taking steps for over 15 years to light candles, to educate, to end Veteran suicides, and to change medicine. Thus, the start of this 13-part series to light several candles. Not only to point out problems, but much more importantly to offer solutions that already exist. The choice is between politics and progress, between cursing “wicked complex problems” and applying proven solutions. This series will bring you  some central truths and, importantly, lay out solutions to the challenges posed by a perhaps misnamed “mental health crisis” in our military and across the country. Ensuing chapters will discuss the estimated $600 Billion per year mental health costs that are only projected to consume more of our national wealth. And the World Economic Forum projects that the cost of mental health conditions and their related consequences will rise to $6 trillion globally by 2030. Together with the GruntStyle Foundation, TreatNOW and multiple other organizations aim to arrest and reverse the suicide and prescribed drug overdose death epidemics afflicting our Veterans, Armed Forces, and society. Both the VA and DoD have declared that suicide prevention is their #1 clinical priority. Based on budget choices, it would seem we’re serious about finding and applying, quickly, some methods that will work against suicidal ideation almost the way penicillin works against bacterial infections like pneumonia, meningitis, and syphilis. Part 1. Just how big is the “problem?” This series intends to tackle a range of subjects that afflict Veterans, especially suicide and drug overdoses which, along with diabetic lower limb amputations, are at epidemic levels. Across military medicine and traditional approaches to “mental health,” there is a wide gap between the palliative care model – control symptoms – and root cause analysis that gets at the physical damage and whole body wellness called for. This includes proper diagnoses and a shift to an appreciation of polytrauma and brain wound healing.  Part 2. Modern War is just so damned dangerous: BLAST Injury, Burn Pits, and the nature of whole body damage/polytrauma. Includes a primer on brain wounding. Part 3. The VA/DoD Approach: Intrepid Center, DVBIC, Intrepid Spirit Centers, WRIICs, PREP, Care Coalitions, and Independent Wellness Centers. Part 4. VSOs and the Growth of 66,000 Veteran Help Organizations since 9/11 Part 5. The insidious Service Member Epidemics: Suicide, Drug Overdosing, and diabetic foot ulcers, lower limb amputations, and the hundreds of thousands of deaths directly attributable to lack of informed consent. Part 6. The Sports Industry: Making contact sports and life in general safer while engaging in a real scientific dialogue about brain wounding, the concussion cascade, "The Concussion Protocol,” and “the new normal” after brain wounding. Part 7. Eisenhower didn’t even get it half right: The Military, Industrial, Contractor, Research, Academic, Lobbyist, Insurance, and Pharmaceutical Complex. Lessons in Bureaucratic Politics and how to sort out a path to success. Part 8. Integrative/Functional/Wholistic/Complementary and Alternative Medicine. You don’t have to throw away institutions or current practices to make them better. Part 9. Alternative Therapies: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) and a new paradigm in whole body healing. Part 10. Alternative Therapies: Devices, Processes, Computers, and Artificial Intelligence. Part 11. Alternative Therapies: Non-Prescription Drugs/ Psychedelics/Supplementation/Nutrition/Diet/Lifestyle. Part 12. How to hold the Congress, White House, VA and DoD, and sports industry accountable for the Epidemics and lack of brain wound healing protocols. Part 13. SUMMARY: The Shortest Paths to Success. How to change the language around “mental health,” arrest and reverse upward trends in deaths through suicides, prescription drug overdoses, lower limb amputations, and restore Quality of Life to brain wounded Veterans and citizens. We welcome your comments. The TreatNOW Mission is ending service member suicides. Along the way, we have learned that we can end suicidal ideation, help end symptoms of PTSD, and heal brain wounds to end the effects of BLAST injury, mild TBI Persistent Post Concussive Syndrome, and polytrauma. www.treatnow.org Heal Brains. Stop Suicides. Restore Lives. TreatNOW Information provided by TreatNOW.org does not constitute a medical recommendation. It is intended for informational purposes only, and no claims, either real or implied, are being made. Read the full article

Does Staying Active Really Keep Your Brain Sharper in Old Age?

<h2>Regular Exercise in Old Age May Help Prevent Dementia</h2> <p>New research suggests that staying active as we age could protect our brain health and keep our thinking sharp well into older adulthood. A study from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland recently investigated this idea further.</p> <h3>The Study</h3> <p>The researchers examined 460 Scottish men and women over the age of 79 who did not have dementia. Decades earlier, when these participants were only 11 years old, they had taken cognitive tests measuring things like reasoning, math skills, and spatial awareness. Now at 79, they retook the same cognitive tests.</p> <p>The participants also completed three fitness tests to gauge their current physical ability: how quickly they could walk 20 feet, the strength of their grip, and how forcefully they could blow out air from their lungs. The results showed some interesting connections between physical fitness and brain health.</p> <h3>Fit at Both Ages, Sharp at Both Ages</h3> <p>The researchers found that those who scored highest on the fitness tests at ages 11 and 79 also tended to do best on the cognitive tests. This link remained strong even after accounting for other factors like smoking, education levels, socioeconomics, and risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life. </p> <p>In other words, staying physically fit throughout one's lifetime seems to support maintaining our thinking and reasoning skills well into older age. But does exercise directly impact brain aging?</p> <h3>Does Exercise Help the Aging Brain?</h3> <p>The researchers pointed out that more study is still needed on whether being active can help slow down age-related changes in the brain. However, they emphasized that as long as your doctor approves, there's no good reason for anyone of any age not to try and stay in shape. They recommend at least 30 minutes a day of moderate exercise on most days of the week.</p> <p>For older adults just starting an exercise routine, doctor supervision is advised. Aerobic activities like walking, dancing, swimming or cycling can help build endurance. Strength moves like lifting containers or light weights, along with stretches, can increase balance and flexibility too.</p> <p>Making physical fitness a lifelong priority may well support our ability to think clearly for many more years to come. So keeping active into our later years just might help exercise our bodies and our brains too!</p>