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Memories+ Group is so excited as three Stay Sharp programs have launched in the area and are attended well.  The understanding that the brain has plasticity and is enhanced by novel and complex thinking is catching on.  The fear of dementia, or any memory disease, has...

There are five critical areas of brain health: Socialization is one of these areas. As a person ages often isolation and socialization take a back seat. It is so easy just to kick back and watch some tv or pretend to be social on "social" media. Checking FaceBook is...

Food for thought! Education Focus: What to eat? So many aging adults eat way too much and much of the wrong things. Make it part of your aging practice to study and find out how foods affect you! Our Canada Food Guide is under a great change in appearance and the...

Do you have an aging adult in your life that has been diagnosed with a compromised memory? I do not mean idle forgetfulness such as I had today when I could not remember a phone number! I mean serious memory impairment where consistent short term thoughts are lost. As...

We hear in the news where aging adults are the target of unscrupulous people attempting to part the elder from their money.  Personally, this writer has watched as a woman’s family and her bank begged her not to send money to a scammer with no success.  She is her own power of attorney and all they could do was advise, begs and pleads while the ultimate decision lay in her hands and she was convinced the scammer was for real..Read More

Dementia is a word we are hearing more and more every day as the aging adult population grows with the pending swell of people who are born between 1944 -1964. In discussion with a colleague yesterday it was pointed out the leading adults of this swell are currently 73 years old. Our aging adult care system has not begun to see the “baby boomers” yet. So many changes will happen when we do…Read More