Here is an announcement about the new grief support group I'll be leading for #HFC. The 1st meeting is on 3.19 at 2 pm ET, 11 am PT. Click enroll & sign up if you want to talk about your grief or listen to others share theirs. My experience comes from my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's. He was diagnosed in his mid 50s & died 15 years later. Looking back, he was sick well before then (the #prodromal phase). How I wish I knew then what I know now. I'll share this & more.
Here is an announcement about the new grief support group I'll be leading for #HFC. The 1st meeting is on 3.19 at 2 pm ET, 11 am PT. Click enroll & sign up if you want to talk about your grief or listen to others share theirs. My experience comes from my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's. He was diagnosed in his mid 50s & died 15 years later. Looking back, he was sick well before then (the #prodromal phase). How I wish I knew then what I know now. I'll share this & more.
How sad how this resonates. Looking back and realizing your loved one's disease was in the #prodromal phase. My father's early-onset #Alzheimer's began with hearing loss, too.
"As Bruce declines, his family is realizing that the signs were there earlier than they realized. “Something was wrong for a long time,” Tallulah admitted last year. “It started out with a kind of vague unresponsiveness, which the family chalked up to Hollywood hearing loss."
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bruce-willis-family-worries-may-134732695.html
What is known as the #prodromal phase, the years when #Alzheimer's is attacking the brain but the clinical presentations may not yet be apparent. "One early hallmark is that sticky protein called beta-amyloid, which over time builds up into brain-clogging #plaques. #Amyloid alone isn’t enough to damage memory — plenty of healthy people’s brains harbor a lot of plaque. An abnormal #tau protein that forms neuron-killing tangles is one of several co-conspirators."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/silent-brain-changes-precede-alzheimers-221628452.html
#Dr.BruceMiller of #UCSF with words of wisdom about #dementia. Like difficulties with sleep and hearing, mood changes, such as #depression, can be a #prodromal indicator of a #brain struggling with# dementia. This slide appears in the podcast I did with All Home Care Matters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_S5KXdLXZ8
#EndAlz
It's #WorldParkinson'sDay, and here is some information that might be useful: #depression and #Parkinson's often go together. A change in #mood can be an aspect of the #prodromal phase of the disease. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/parkinsons-disease/qa-parkinsons-disease-and-depression
