This Is Dementia

This is Dementia: Disrupting the Decline seeks to dispel the myths surrounding dementia. It invites you to take a journey to explore the misconceptions, stereotypes, and various perspectives surrounding this devastating disorder. This journey is an interactive one that requires you to engage. It asks you to bring, and challenge, your own perspectives and understandings of what dementia is. The reality is that dementia in and of itself is not a disease. At its core, dementia is accelerated aging of the brain. In other words, the brain is on a faster trajectory toward death when compared to the body. This understanding of dementia is important as it opens the possibility of disrupting, even preventing, this trajectory. This is Dementia offers crucial insights into how dementia impacts our brains and its ability to function. It provides information on the early often imperceptible changes, referred to as Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), that can begin as early as 30 or 40 years old. It dispels the myths that dementia is an inevitable part of aging and that it is not treatable. It offers five steps -- Awareness, Acceptance, Action, Allowance, and Attitude -- to guide your understanding of dementia and prepare you for your own diagnosis or that of someone close to us. Regardless of if you or a loved one have been diagnosed with dementia or not, This is Dementia provides a road map to empower you to slow, maybe even stop, the seemingly relentless march of this debilitating, "take-everything-from-you" disorder.

How to Navigate the Minefield That Is Dementia with Your Loved One: A Guide Born of Experience is a book that I felt called to write. As a physician and one well versed in geriatrics, I thought I knew how to navigate the system to get dementia care for my husband. I was very wrong. Dementia is a worldwide epidemic. At the moment, there is no cure. Our understanding of the disease process is incomplete and appears multifactorial. Everyone knows or loves someone who has been afflicted with it. The very thought of dementia is met with fear and avoidance. Little information is available to the lay public. This book is written for a lay audience. In my view, knowledge is power, and my goal is to empower the general public with basic knowledge of the disease and what steps can be taken to deal with it with confidence. It is written in three parts. Part 1 is a memoir designed to introduce you to Ollie, and I and tell the story of what we experienced in our journey both before and during the dementia years. Part 2 is a scientific literature review, written in lay terms, describing the most common types of dementia and the most up-to-date information on diagnosis, cause, prevention, and treatment. References are provided mostly from 2018 through 2020. The third part is designed to help the caregiver understand where and how to get help for loved ones without destroying themselves both physically and financially. This is a book that will help you if you are already caring for a dementia patient. It may help you even more if you are not yet in that situation, because you will need this information along the way in your life journey.

Explains the complex concepts of dementia, such as brain function, disease progression and death to pre-school aged children in a direct and age-appropriate way, as well as exploring children's feelings about these issues. This book caters for children aged 4+ who have a loved one at any stage of dementia.

This is Volume XII of nineteen in a collection of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. Originally published in 1925, this research stemmed from many discussions about the applicability of psychoanalytic principles to manic-depressive insanity, whether the symptoms could be traced to unconscious mental processes in the same way as Jung had demonstrated it to be possible in dementia praecox and ended up with the general objective moving from that of psychopathological to one of psychological conclusions .

Do you want to know how our mental processes impact our behaviour? Have you ever wondered about memory works and why is it flawed? Do you want to know how we think and what affects our decisions? If the answer to any of these questions is yes then this is the book for you. By the end of this book, you’ll learn: · What is cognitive psychology? · How memory works? · What affects our memory? · How we learn language? · How technology affects our mental processes? · And more… If you want a great, engaging, easy to understand book about cognitive psychology. You will love this book! BUY IT NOW! Cognitive Psychology Content: Introduction Part One: Memory Chapter 1: Introduction to Memory Chapter 2: Retrieval of Memory Chapter 3: Multi-Store Memory Model Chapter 4: Working Memory Model Chapter 5: Reliability of Memory Chapter 6: Episodic Memory Chapter 7: Emotion and Memory Part Two: Decision-Making, Thinking and Technology Chapter 8: Decision-Making and Thinking Chapter 9: Visual Imagery Chapter 10: Biases in Thinking Chapter 11: Decision Neuroscience Chapter 12: Cognition in A Digital World Part Three: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Learning Chapter 13: Learning: Habitual and Basis of Learning Chapter 14: Types of Learning Chapter 15: Biology of Learning and Memory Chapter 16: Schema Part Four: Social Cognition, Empathy and Emotion Chapter 17: Social Cognition, Empathy and Mirror Neurons Chapter 18: Emotion Chapter 19: Emotion Through A Social Psychology Lens Chapter 20: Emotion and Cognition Chapter 21: How Does Emotion Influence Cognition? Chapter 22: How Does Cognition Influence Emotion? Chapter 23: Does Cognition Cause Emotion? Chapter 24: The Conscious Chapter 25: The Basis of Conscious Part Five: Language Chapter 26: Language Chapter 27: How Do We Learn A Language? Part Six: Attention: Recognition, Altered Functions and Controls Chapter 28: Attention Chapter 29: Object Recognition Chapter 30: Facial Recognition Chapter 31: Altered Cognitive Functions and Neuropsychology Chapter 32: Cognitive Controls BUY NOW!

Discover how to thrive and live better for longer. By the time we turn 60 most of us will still have one third of our lives to live. How well we live these years will depend on our health: are we agile and disease free? Or dependent on medication and physical assistance? In Staying Alive you'll discover the science on how you can avoid or manage the major diseases that impact us as we age, including heart health, diabetes and dementia, and boost your everyday behaviours to improve your enjoyment of life. Specialist Australian geriatrician Dr Kate Gregorevic clearly outlines key lifestyle-enhancing strategies for nutrition, exercise, cognitive and emotional health, and the positive impact they will have as you age. Easy to understand and based on the latest research, this is the day-to-day lifestyle guide you need to benefit you now and into a long and healthy future.