AgingME: TeleHealth

Optimizing Well-Being

AgingME is Maine’s Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program. Under the leadership of Dr. Susan Wehry, AgingME works to build an age-friendly healthcare system, “transforming primary care practices and engaging and empowering older adults”. The Dementia Action Alliance’s ongoing partnership with AgingME furthers our ability to create a better world in which to live with dementia. The below videos were recently produced to provide a better understanding of first-hand experiences of people living with dementia. Video #1: Dementia Action Alliance’s On […]

WHAT TO DO IN THESE STRESSFUL TIMES By – Susan Wehry, MD

Optimizing Well-Being

A blog from the Dementia Action Alliance The current pandemic is stressful. And like all stress, it sets off a cascade of reactions in our body/mind. Like releasing cortisol which gets us ready to flee or fight. And while heightening our awareness, focusing our attention, having a burst of adrenalized energy may be ok in the short term it takes a toll in the long term. A person of any age with a heart condition or diabetes or respiratory problem is […]

ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) for Dementia by Dr. G. Allen Power

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[BPSD – behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia] by: G. Allen Power, MD It is hard to believe that my first blog post on this subject was 8 years ago, colorfully titled ECT for AD and LBD? WTF…(https://changingaging.org/blogstream/ect-for-ad-and-dlb-wtf/). In that post, I criticized researchers for giving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to people living with dementia who were exhibiting “severe agitation or aggression.” This topic has jumped back into the limelight recently with the announcement of a new $11.8 million NIA grant—to […]

Six Lessons I Learned at the Dementia Action Alliance Conference

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With our sincerest appreciation to Juliet for allowing DAA to re-post her June 30th blog. Juliet Holt Klinger June 30, 2017 I have just returned from the first Dementia Action Alliance Conference: Re-Imagine Life with Dementia in Atlanta and I feel strongly compelled to share my experience. Frankly, I can’t think of a better way to wrap up Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month. The Dementia Action Alliance is an organization that was formed to give a voice to those living with dementia and […]

Let’s Change The Stories We Tell

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Anne Ellett, N.P., M.S.N. AANC Certified Gerontological Nurse Founder, Executive Director – Memory Care Support www.MemoryCareSupport.com With our sincerest appreciation to Anne for allowing DAA to re-post the following article from her April 2017 newsletter. Most of us are aware of research that shows that if teachers hold low expectations of a child’s abilities, that child is more likely to perform only to the level of the teacher’s low expectations. And conversely, if the teachers have high expectations, the child is much […]

Category: Optimizing Well-Being

AgingME: TeleHealth

WHAT TO DO IN THESE STRESSFUL TIMES By – Susan Wehry, MD

ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) for Dementia by Dr. G. Allen Power

Six Lessons I Learned at the Dementia Action Alliance Conference

Let’s Change The Stories We Tell