Entries by Janet Rich Pittman, SCALA, CDP, MCWC

ObamaCare, TrumpCare and Dementia

Star Com Radio Network, The Ed Tyll Show, 21 minutes: Ed hosted me to talk bout TrumpCare vs. ObamaCare and its impact on dementia, specifically Alzheimer’s. Enjoy listening to our conversation [21 Minutes] (or you can read the transcript below) and let me know if you have any questions. {Editor’s Note: this is a transcript […]

The List for Concentrating

  The Concentration Cheat Sheet Fight your Senior Moments and Brain Accidents Pay Extra Attention by: writing things down, keeping lists, setting alarms and reminders on your computer, laptop and/or cell phone, completing a single task before another (no multi tasking) and by organizing your priorities. How to Remember Names: When introduced to a new person, […]

Why you need to start running..

Here is Fuel for your Resolution to Workout More      It was just reconfirmed yet again, through another study publicized in the Journal of Neuroscience, that running, actually any aerobic exercise, grows new brain cells. (See photo below.) There are many types of brain exercises but aerobic exercise is the number one brain exercise.     […]

Alzheimer’s Plaques May Be Good After All

Beta Amyloid Plaques* In the Alzheimer’s world the overproduction of these miss-folded proteins are thought to be a main cause of this deadly and family altering disease.  A team co-led by Drs. Deepak Kumar Vijaya Kumar of Massachusetts General Hospital and Robert Moir and Rudolph Tanzi of Harvard Medical School[i] showed from their study released mid […]

THE AGE WHEN OUR BRAIN IS AT ITS PEAK PERFORMANCE

  Our brain growth peaks about age 26 where it weighs in at roughly 1450 grams or about 3.2 pounds.      Canadian scientists, John Philippe Rushton and D. Davison (Dave)  Ankney , reviewed nearly 100 scientific cognition (brain function) studies and they site that by age 80, from our peak brain weight at around age 26, our brain […]

What to do with Willie… An Alzheimer’s Dilemma

This article is a reprint from The Mobile County, Alabama Sherriff’s Magazine. The story is true.  Names have been changed for privacy.      Bob, a police officer of one of Mobile’s suburbs, had been called to investigate and remove a middle to elder age man caught urinating in a corner of the local elementary school.  With […]

The FINGER study shows the PROOF!

FINGER study just released this past March 12, 2015.  The Finnish Geriatric Intervention study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Decline (FINGER) was a longitudinal randomized study of 1260 seniors ranging in age 60 to 77 which showed that it is possible to reduce cognitive decline with lifestyle changes incorporating resistance muscle training (lifting light weights) one to three […]