Video News - August 2009 Archive

August Videos by Topic or Title:
(Last updated: 23 August 2009)

Maintaining Brain Health
All about Alzheimer's
Early Stage Alzheimer's
Protecting Dementia Patients Bill
Safe Return Program
Mediterranean diet & staying active
Clinical Studies Participation
Raising Money for Research - AU
The Coconut Oil Story
Mt Sinai Research Funding
Communicating and Dementia
Dogs & Dementia
Reasons to be Optimistic
CNN: Marijuana & Alzheimer's Disease
Medication Abuse and Alzheimer's
Higher cholesterol levels - Dementia

Alzheimer's Drug Study
What is dementia?
Areas of the Brain - Dementia
Temporal Lobe Symptoms
Frontal Lobe Damage
Parietal Lobe Damage
Limbic System Symptoms
Helpful Activity in Dementia
Sleep Problems in Dementia
Stress Reducing Techniques
Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease
Caregiving & Alzheimer's Disease
Senile Dementia - Health Byte
Living With Dementia - Carers
Early Onset Alzheimer's



 

Maintaining Brain Health (9 Part Series)

Aspen Center for Integral Health 2006 Summer Symposium 'A Better Brain - Alzheimer's Disease is Preventable' presentation. Links to the other eight parts are provided below:

- Part 2    - Part 3    - Part 4    - Part 5   

- Part 6    - Part 7    - Part 8    - Part 9

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All about Alzheimer's

From the Alzheimer's Association Greater Richmond Chapter...

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Unmasking Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease

Apple Science Profiles - Unmasking Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease podcast...

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Protecting Dementia Patients Bill

Rep. Allen Peake presenting HB 457, the Alzheimers and Dementia patients protection bill, United States...

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Alzheimer's Disease-Safe Return Program

Phyllis Lane's safe return story featured on WHAS in Louisville, KY raises awareness of the Safe Return program for Alzheimer's patients. Alzheimer's patients are prone to wandering away and the en...

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Mediterranean diet and staying active - lower risk for Alzheimer's

Eating a Mediterranean-type diet and staying active both linked to a lower risk for Alzheimer's disease...

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Clinical Studies Participation

ICAD 2009 Press Room Video - Ulrika Akenine discusses why people with Alzheimer's and their relatives participate in clinical studies in order to further inform the clinical study recruitment process...

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Raising Money for Research - Australia

Glenn Rees, National Chief Executive Officer of Alzheimers Australia, says his organisation is incredibly grateful to Richard for his significant pledge to support dementia research....

Melbourne developer and adventurer Richard Buxton flew a light plane and sailed a small yacht around Australia and has written a book about it. All proceeds go to Alzheimer's research in Australia...

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The Coconut Oil Story

Last year there was a story about a doctor who found that coconut oil appeared to help her husband who suffers from early onset dementia. This video is an interview with the doctor and her husband,, posted on YouTube this month...

- Part 2    - Part 3    - Part 4    - Part 5    - Part 6

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Mt Sinai Alzheimer's Disease Research Funding

The direct and indirect costs of Alzheimer's and other dementias amount to more than $148 billion annually. The Mann Foundation has made a multi-million dollar pledge to Mount Sinai's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center...

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Communicating and Dementia (Six Part Series)

- Part 2    - Part 3    - Part 4    - Part 5    - Part 6

Presentation on communicating more effectively with people with dementia...

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Dogs & Dementia

News story about Alzheimer's patients finding comfort/therapy from dogs...

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Reasons to be Optimistic

HBO's John Hoffman talks about The Alzheimer's Project and how there is now genuine reason to be optimistic about the future...

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CNN: Marijuana & Alzheimer's Disease

The active ingredient in marijuana may stall decline from Alzheimer's disease, research suggests. Scientists showed a synthetic version of the compound may reduce inflammation associated with Alzheimer's disease...

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Medication Abuse and Alzheimer's Disease

Even as you view this message thousands of elderly dx with Alzheimer's disease are being given psychotropic medications without proper treatment ...

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Higher cholesterol levels might lead to dementia

A new study reveals a correlation between cholesterol levels and the chances of developing dementia...

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Alzheimer's Drug Study - NJN News Healthwatch Report

Experts are hopeful that a new drug that is in late-phase clinical trials will combat Alzheimers Disease, which is a disorder that robs a patient of memory and mobility...

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What is dementia?

This video gives a brief outline of what we mean by dementia...

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Areas of the Brain affected in Dementia

This video gives an overview of the main regions of the brain important in dementia...

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Symptoms of Dementia and the Temporal Lobe

A brief user-friendly explanation of what happens as the temporal lobes are affected by dementia...

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Frontal Lobe Damage in Dementia & Picks Disease

What happens as the frontal lobes of the brain are affected by dementia. This video is particulalrly useful for those looking after people with frontal dementias such as Picks disease but also those...

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Symptoms of Dementia - Parietal Lobe Damage

A brief user friendly description of what happens when the Parietal Lobes are affected in dementia...

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Symptoms of Dementia - the Limbic System

A video about what happens when the limbic system of the brain is affected by dementia...

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Helpful Activity in Dementia

Some suggestions about how activity may help someone with dementia.

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Sleep Problems in Dementia

This video describes some of the sleep problems which may occur in dementia and some techniques to try.

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Stress Reducing Techniques in Dementia

This video explores some ways of reducing the stress of dementia to both sufferer and carer...

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Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease

 
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Caregiving & Alzheimer's Disease

 
Alzheimer's disease usually affects people over the age of 65. Learn what it is like to be a caregiver for a family member who has Alzheimer's in this disease condition video...
 
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Senile Dementia - Health Byte

Senile Dementia is a steady decline of mental faculties in a person, primarily elderly, for various reasons including Alzheimer's disease and strokes. Watch this video for more information on this...
 
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Living With Dementia - Caregiving

Two carers talk about their experiences of caring for someone with dementia. With advice, help and support for anyone newly diagnosed with dementia, worried they have early signs of dementia, or ca...

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Early Onset Alzheimer's

An estimated 200,000 Americans have it...

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