ARTICLE

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.

Read on www.healthline.com

FindCenter Post-Image

Ayahuasca Tea Could Be a Breakthrough Treatment for Alzheimer’s

Its potential for treating dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases is just one category of many illnesses doctors hope could be helped with the ancient medicine, prescribed by shamans for millennia.

FindCenter Post-Image

Why We Can and Must Focus on Preventing Alzheimer’s

A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed how levels of blood sugar directly relate to risk for dementia.

David Perlmutter

FindCenter Post-Image

FMLA and Caring for Elderly Parent with Dementia

An employee who is eligible for Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave has asked to use it to spend time with her father, who is in a nursing home but having difficulty settling in. He has dementia and will listen only to family members. Is this a qualifying event?

FindCenter Post-Image

Alzheimer’s in the Family

Dementia affects the person diagnosed but also raises fears for siblings and children. Here are the facts.

Harvard Health Publishing

FindCenter Post-Image

Caught Between Young Kids and a Parent with Alzheimer’s, I Found a Lifeline on the Playground

My mom’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and decline were a painful and lonely journey, one that coincided with an otherwise unbearably hectic time. My two children were still in diapers.

Meg Ounsworth Steere

FindCenter Post-Image

Responding When Someone with Dementia Wants Her Mom or Dad

It can be helpful to arm yourself with understanding about why this happens and have a couple of responses prepared to try to help your loved one.

FindCenter Post-Image

How to Know If Your Parent Has Dementia

A little forgetfulness can be brushed off as aging, but a repetitive pattern of memory loss or recurring signs of behavior change may lead to larger concerns about an elderly parent.

FindCenter Post-Image

Financial Problems May Start Earlier in Dementia Than Many Think, Duke Study Finds

The study also found that financial problems were correlated with changes in the brain that are a sign of Alzheimer's disease.

Stacey Burlilng

FindCenter Post-Image

New Therapies Help Patients with Dementia Cope with Depression

Many patients with cognitive impairment have anxiety or depression, but standard treatments are difficult for people with memory issues.

Andrea Petersen

FindCenter Post-Image

How Everyday Objects Can Improve Quality of Life for People with Dementia

A new training programme in care homes shows how mundane tasks like making a drink or polishing is good for residents’ wellbeing.

EXPLORE TOPIC

Meditation