Welcome to the July newsletter!
The Unique Challenges of Dementia Caregiving
Douglas Scharre, M.D., author of Long-Term Management of Dementia and director of the division of cognitive and memory disorders at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, explains how to manage such often-difficult care.
With Alzheimer’s disease, a loved one can seem lucid one day and unrecognizable the next. Why?
Health Panel: Adults Under 65 Should Be Screened for Anxiety
If you’re under 65, your next check-up could include a new screening — one for anxiety.
A panel of medical experts is, for the first time, recommending that adults under the age of 65 get screened annually by their primary care physician for the increasingly common mental health condition, even if they don’t have symptoms.
How to Stop Getting Distracted
At 55, my focus started to fray. I had to ask my teenage daughter to stop chatting during tricky highway merges. I penciled “COUNT!!!” across my community orchestra music, to avoid getting lost in long strings of repeated notes. I wrote multiple to-do lists and forgot new neighbors’ names. Turns out, I was completely normal and there was something I could do about the problem.