News of the Week - 11/01/24
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Sage Stream Artist Sets Music to Poetry.
Grandma Goes on a Date.
Loneliness Increases Dementia Risk by 31%.
How elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns.
Off the ropes: Nursing home residents thrilled to host annual wrestling entertainment.
Divorce rates among older adults have almost tripled since 1990.
What Drugmakers Did Not Tell Volunteers in Alzheimer’s Trials.
A Mental Tightrope: When Instrumental Musicians Have to Sing, Too.
Carolyn Hax: A caregiver’s body is failing, but family’s needs persist.
Sage Stream Artist Sets Music to Poetry.
Bryan is a life-long friend living with cerebral palsy. When he made a shout-out for someone to put his poetry to music during the dark days of the pandemic, Sage Stream artist James Skarnikat took it up.
Grandma Goes on a Date
Loneliness Increases Dementia Risk by 31%
Neuroscience - A large meta-analysis of over 600,000 people shows that experiencing loneliness significantly raises the risk of developing dementia by 31%. Researchers found that loneliness is a key factor in cognitive decline, contributing to conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, regardless of age or sex.
How elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns
CNN - A CNN investigation reveals how deceptive political fundraising has misled elderly Americans into giving away millions of dollars. The Republican fundraising machine has been subject to more than 800 complaints to the Federal Trade Commission since 2022 — nearly seven times more than the number of complaints lodged against the other side.
Off the ropes: Nursing home residents thrilled to host annual wrestling entertainment
McKnight’s - One California nursing home is saying goodbye to soap opera reruns and hello to choke holds, body slams and leotards, as its residents cheer ringside at a pro wrestling entertainment set up just outside their facility.
Divorce rates among older adults have almost tripled since 1990
McKnight’s - New research finds an almost threefold increase in the percentage of divorced older adults compared with three decades ago. And an increasing number of older adults never have married.
What Drugmakers Did Not Tell Volunteers in Alzheimer’s Trials
NYT - Genetic tests showed that certain patients were predisposed to brain injuries if they took the drugs. That information remained secret.
A Mental Tightrope: When Instrumental Musicians Have to Sing, Too
NYT - Artists who take up contemporary music sometimes have to sing and play at the same time. The results can be extraordinarily powerful.
Carolyn Hax: A caregiver’s body is failing, but family’s needs persist
NYT - hat do you do when your body can’t handle the stress anymore, but the family struggles don’t stop?
“Hope’ is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tunes without the words, and never stops at all.”
– EMILY DICKINSON
I’m endorsing hope - Kamala Harris!
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