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- Neurobics and an Age Health Diet
EncouragingBrainHealthForSeniors.mp3
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17307601
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Let's start talking about memory issues in later life
http://studio5.ksl.com/index.php?nid=71&sid=8528130&autostart=y&recommend=true
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- These are “Pocket Videos” about Alzheimer’s disease.
Questions I pose to my students:
What does Alzheimer’s disease teach us about the nature of aging?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G0wuwOgn8M
Do you believe that Alzheimer’s disease is an epidemic?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCl4ezAWNRQ
How is Alzheimer’s disease treated?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r9waLfc8DE
Is there meaningful help for families?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBePUr7Lozw
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?mod=0&pkg=10012008&seg=4
A trajectory of decline in normal aging and in Alzheimer’s Disease
Okinawa: What explains the extraordinary longevity of older Okinawans?
Should we be ingesting Omega-3 regularly to preserve brain health?
What about Vitamin B12?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUtkA41A6a8
Aubrey de Grey, PhD, is a widely-known (and controversial) bio-gerontologist who has been working to develop a true cure for human aging. Will he achieve his goal? Who knows? Many of his ideas are compelling. This video covers his views about several “biological” reasons why we age. In this video, he gives no suggestions about what to do, but understanding how and why aging happens is an important first step towards knowing what to do about it.
http://www.videojug.com/interview/the-seven-deadly-causes-of-aging-2
How long we live is not always be explained by genes.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuYYiFYJdlo
This is a Discussion about strategies for keeping memory alive
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IMPORTANT ITEM:
Elderly people who exercise at least once a week, have at least a high school education and a ninth grade literacy level, are not smokers and are more socially active are more likely to maintain their cognitive skills through their 70s and 80s, according to research published in the June 9, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
The study followed 2,500 people age 70 to 79 for eight years, testing their cognitive skills several times over the years. 53% of the participants showed normal age-related decline and 16% showed major cognitive decline. 30% had no change or improved on the tests over the years.
The researchers then examined what factors made the people whose cognition stayed sharp different from those who lost some of their abilities over eight years.
people who maintain cognitive function from people who show age-related decline: people who exercise moderately to vigorously at least once a week are 30 percent more likely to maintain their cognitive function than those who do not exercise that often.
Those who have at least a high school education are nearly three times as likely to stay sharp as those who have less education.
Non-smokers are nearly twice as likely to stay sharp as those who smoke.
people working/volunteering are 24% more likely to maintain memory.
