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12 Science-Based Benefits of Meditation

By Matthew Thorpe, Rachel Link — 2020

Meditation is the habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. The popularity of meditation is increasing as more people discover its many health benefits.

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Legal and Financial Planning for People with Dementia

Legal and medical experts encourage people recently diagnosed with a serious illness—particularly one that is expected to cause declining mental and physical health—to examine and update their financial and health care arrangements as soon as possible.

National Institute on Aging

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How Dementia Changes Families

When my mom developed dementia, my dad tried to deny it and I tried to fix it. We both failed.

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Dementia Behaviors: Expert Tips for Understanding and Coping

Anger, confusion, and sadness are a few symptoms a person with dementia may experience regularly. Even though you know your loved one’s dementia behaviors are symptoms of a disease and not intentional, dealing with them is often emotionally and physically challenging.

Merritt Whitley

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Seeking that Elusive Good Night Sleep

Caregivers often find themselves exhausted at the end of the day, but many are still not able to sleep.

Family Caregiver Alliance Staff

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Dementia Care: Helping Your Loved One Stay Connected and Safe

Tips for meeting the unique challenges of caring for someone with dementia or Alzheimer's

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Dementia Care Guide: Memory Loss Care Solutions

Many family caregivers choose to support a relative with dementia at home. But as their disease progresses, caring for someone with dementia alone may become difficult to manage. If a time comes when you need help caring for your elderly loved one, help is available.

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How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know

Should a doctor replace an accustomed identity with a meaningless “reality”?

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Microglia: A New Target in the Brain for Depression, Alzheimer’s, and More?

As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.

Donna Jackson Nakazawa

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Yoga May Be Good for the Brain

A weekly routine of yoga and meditation may strengthen thinking skills and help to stave off aging-related mental decline, according to a new study of older adults with early signs of memory problems.

Gretchen Reynolds

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Why Marriage Is Linked to a Lower Risk of Dementia

People who have never married or whose spouse has died are at increased risk of developing dementia compared to married people, according to a new review in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. But being single may not be as big a health hazard as it once was, the analysis finds.

Amanda Macmillan

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