Incontinence Management Change Up Could Make Dad ’s Buddy Trip Possible
Dear Carol: My father is 72 and is in the moderate stages of dementia. Before his dementia diagnosis, he was an active hunter and fisherman. He also has incontinence issues due to prostate cancer, surgery, and treatment. This requires an external urinary attachment system to maintain an active daily life. My mother, as his primary caregiver, works diligently to keep the system and attachments clean and in working order. However, he is at the stage in his dementia journey where he is not able to maintain this attachment on his own. Yet he is defiant when we try to explain that he cannot go on trips with friends becaus...
Source: Minding Our Elders - December 10, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Family Perspective on Mental Illness
What’s it like growing up with a sibling with mental illness? In today’s show, we hear it straight from Gabe’s little sister Debbie, who shares what it was like living with Gabe well before anyone knew he had bipolar disorder.
Join us for a great discussion on mental health issues in families. While it’s always hard, there is often a silver lining.
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Source: World of Psychology - December 1, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: Bipolar Family General Not Crazy Podcast Source Type: blogs
Digital Otoscope Enhances Decision-Making and Improves Outcomes
Procedural equipment will help you make accurate diagnoses and formulate treatment plans. You want the equipment to work, be readily accessible, and be easy to clean and store. It's also nice when it fits in your pocket.You also want to be sure your staff is trained to use it. Not everyone in your department may want to break out the nasal endoscope for a quick ENT exam, as we discussed last month. (See post below.) But specialized ENT equipment may make your life a bit easier and improve patient outcomes. Using a digital otoscope to view the tympanic membrane is fast, easy, and safe. This particular model costs $24. ...
Source: The Procedural Pause - November 30, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Sculpt not!
With Deuteronomy 4, Moses begins a long spell of hectoring. There ' s a lot of scolding in general about following the law exactly, but there ' s also a particular emphasis on not making graven images. The New International Version, which I ' ve been using, translates the word as " idols, " which would seem to imply that it ' s only bad if you ' re planning to worship the thing, but most translations just have " images, " including the Revised Standard Version I present here. This is evidently consistent with the Hebrew because over the millennia rabbinical authorities have interpreted the prohibition as restricting any fo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 29, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Demarcation Problem
" Demarcation " is the fancy term used by philosophers of science for making the distinction between science and basically every other kind of belief or kind of statement. Since science claims to be about distinguishing what is true, it also comes down to what is basically another word for epistemology, the branch of philosophy which deals with how we decide what is true. But by reframing epistemology as the effort to define science, philosophers have essentially made the word " science " a synonym for epistemological validity. I ' m going to be very careful not to get too deep into the weeds here. Philosophers pulp w...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 25, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Egrets, I ’ ve seen a few – Cattle Egret
Back in the early 1990s, Mrs Sciencebase and I visited Botswana and Zimbabwe. It was wonderful. The people, the landscapes, the wildlife. There were so many superb species around such as Golden Weaver Birds, Oxpeckers, Superb Starlings, various storks, ibis, vultures, Fish Eagles, Eagle Owl, and Little Egrets (probably Cattle Egrets too).
We were quite confused on our return on a visit to the North Norfolk coast (a place that would become a favourite haunt) that we saw a Little Egret there. Over the next three decades or so little egrets seem to have become increasingly common in East Anglia and although it’s still ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 23, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Egrets, I ’ ve seen a few – including the Cattle Egret
Back in the early 1990s, Mrs Sciencebase and I visited Botswana and Zimbabwe. It was wonderful. The people, the landscapes, the wildlife. There were so many superb species around such as Golden Weaver Birds, Oxpeckers, Superb Starlings, various storks, ibis, vultures, Fish Eagles, Eagle Owl, and Little Egrets (probably Cattle Egrets too).
We were quite confused on our return on a visit to the North Norfolk coast (a place that would become a favourite haunt) that we saw a Little Egret there. Over the next three decades or so little egrets seem to have become increasingly common in East Anglia and although it’s still ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 23, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Intermittent fasting: Does a new study show downsides — or not?
Intermittent fasting (IF) is an approach to eating based on timing. The idea is that fasting for long enough allows insulin levels to fall low enough that our body will use fat for fuel. Growing evidence in animals and humans shows that this approach leads to significant weight loss. When combined with a nutritious, plant-based diet and regular physical activity, IF can be part of a healthy weight loss or maintenance plan, as I described in an earlier blog post.
Now, a randomized controlled trial published in JAMA claims that IF has no significant weight loss benefit and a substantial negative effect on muscle mass. News o...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Health Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Temporarily Switching up Incontinence Management Could Make Dad ’s Trip Possible
Dear Carol: My father is 72 and is in the moderate stages of dementia. Before his dementia diagnosis, he was an active hunter and fisherman. He also has incontinence issues due to prostate cancer, surgery, and treatment. This requires an external urinary attachment system to maintain an active daily life. My mother, as his primary caregiver, works diligently to keep the system and attachments clean and in working order. However, he is at the stage in his dementia journey where he is not able to maintain this attachment on his own. Yet he is defiant when we try to explain that he cannot go on trips with friends becaus...
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 26, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 19th 2020
In conclusion, we found that regardless of the presence of multimorbidity, engaging in a healthier lifestyle was associated with up to 6.3 years longer life for men and 7.6 years for women; however, not all lifestyle risk factors equally correlated with life expectancy, with smoking being significantly worse than others.
A Hydrogel Scaffold to Encourage Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/10/a-hydrogel-scaffold-to-encourage-peripheral-nerve-regeneration/
The nervous system of mammals is poorly regenerative at best. The use of implantable scaffold materials is one of th...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 18, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
More Work on Proteomic Clocks to Measure Biological Age
Researchers are these days producing a fair number of novel metrics capable of measuring age and mortality. Machine learning or similar approaches are used to mine epigenetic, proteomic, and transcriptomic data sets, in order to establish algorithmic combinations of epigenetic marks or expression of specific genes that change in characteristic ways with age. The work here is an example of the type, focused on the proteome, the set of proteins produced by cells, and how it shifts over the course of a lifetime. Unlike first generation epigenetic clocks, this approach appears to be able to pick up the difference to the pace o...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 16, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Understanding a Dysfunctional Childhood
Let’s discuss the nuances of dysfunctional parenting. In today’s Not Crazy podcast, Gabe recalls the relationship he had with his parents when he was young. As a teen, he thought his parents were being overly harsh, but now he sees they were trying to punish symptoms of his undiagnosed bipolar disorder — and were doing the best they could.
Join us for a great discussion on how the parent-child dynamic can go wrong when undiagnosed mental illness is involved.
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Source: World of Psychology - October 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: Bipolar Children and Teens Disorders Family Not Crazy Podcast Parenting Source Type: blogs
Changes In Incontinence Management Could Make Dad ’s Adventure Possible
Dear Carol: My father is 72 and is in the moderate stages of dementia. Before his dementia diagnosis, he was an active hunter and fisherman. He also has incontinence issues due to prostate cancer, surgery, and treatment. This requires an external urinary attachment system to maintain an active daily life. My mother, as his primary caregiver, works diligently to keep the system and attachments clean and in working order. However, he is at the stage in his dementia journey where he is not able to maintain this attachment on his own. Yet he is defiant when we try to explain that he cannot go on trips with friends becaus...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 30, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Incontinence Management Changes Could Help Dad Rejoin His Friends
Dear Carol: My father is 72 and is in the moderate stages of dementia. Before his dementia diagnosis, he was an active hunter and fisherman. He also has incontinence issues due to prostate cancer, surgery, and treatment. This requires an external urinary attachment system to maintain an active daily life. My mother, as his primary caregiver, works diligently to keep the system and attachments clean and in working order. However, he is at the stage in his dementia journey where he is not able to maintain this attachment on his own. Yet he is defiant when we try to explain that he cannot go on trips with friends becaus...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 25, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Even When You ’re A Member Of An Elite Group, It Can Be Demoralising To Rank Lower Than Your Peers
In this study, some participants in the huge-fish-tiny-pond condition were told they had done better than 35% of all American test-takers, while some in the tiny-fish-huge-pond condition were told they had done better than 65% of Americans. This meant that participants in the huge-fish-tiny-pond group were 30 percentile points lower than those in the tiny-fish-huge-pond group. And yet, the effect still occurred (albeit at a smaller scale): they rated their abilities as higher than those in the latter group.
Finally, the researchers found evidence that this effect is driven by people focussing on their own rank within ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Educational Social The self Source Type: blogs
