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Heads up For Healthier Brains
Julie Wong
www.alzheimertoronto.org
Julie Wong
Public Education Coordinator
• A set of symptoms, which include loss of memory,
understanding and judgment.
• Reversible: delirium, depression, thyroid or heart
What is Dementia?
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• Reversible: delirium, depression, thyroid or heart
disease, alcohol abuse, malnutrition, drug
interaction
• Irreversible: Alzheimer’s Disease, Vascular
Dementia, Fronto-temporal Disease, Lewy Body
Dementia
What is Dementia?
www.alzheimertoronto.org
Alzheimer’s Frontal Lewy Body Vascular Creutzfeldt
Disease Temporal Disease Dementia Jakob
Dementia Disease
• 36 million people worldwide have
Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia
Statistics
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• 500,000 people in Canada have Alzheimer’s
Disease or a related dementia
• 71, 000 under the age of 65
Progressive: the amount of damage done by the
disease increases over time
Degenerative: the nerve cells/neurons in the brain
Defining Alzheimer’s Disease
www.alzheimertoronto.org
Degenerative: the nerve cells/neurons in the brain
degenerate or break down
Irreversible: damage caused by the disease cannot
be repaired - at present there is no
cure
What causes AD?
www.alzheimertoronto.org
Normal Brain vs Alzheimer Brain
www.alzheimertoronto.org
Normal Brain Brain Atrophied by Alzheimer Disease
Signs & Symptoms
1) Memory loss
2) Difficulty performing
familiar tasks
3) Problems with language
6) Problems with
abstract thinking
7) Misplacing things
www.alzheimertoronto.org
3) Problems with language
4) Disorientation of time
and place
5) Poor or decreased
judgment
8) Changes in mood and
behaviour
9) Changes in personality
10) Loss of initiative
• Age
• Gender
• Genetics
Risk Factors Beyond Our Control
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• Genetics
Other Risk Factors
• Head injury
• Lack of physical
exercise
• Stress
• Heart disease
• Obesity
• High cholesterol
• High blood pressure
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• Stress
• Smoking
• Lack of mental or
intellectual challenge
• Low levels of formal
education
• High blood pressure
• Diabetes
• Depression
• Others
• Protect your head
• Be socially active
Take Action for a Healthier Brain
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• Be socially active
• Choose a healthy life style
• Challenge your brain
Protect your Head
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• Join a club, hobby group or take a class
• Attend church/synagogue/temple/mosque
• Volunteer
• Visit or be visited by relatives/ friends
Be Socially Active
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• Visit or be visited by relatives/ friends
• Be physically active
• Make healthy food choices
• Manage your stress
• Get enough sleep
Choose a Healthy Lifestyle
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• Get enough sleep
• Track your health numbers
• Stop smoking and moderate your alcohol
consumption
• 87% of people who own running shoes do
not run
• Effective exercise is regular, sustained,
Be Physically Active
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• Effective exercise is regular, sustained,
varied
• Choose activities you enjoy
• Mediterranean diet
– Quality/variety
– not quantity
Make Healthy Food Choices
www.alzheimertoronto.org
– not quantity
• Antioxidants
• Omega-3 fatty acids
• Vitamins
• Interferes with normal physiological
equilibrium in the body
• Increases the release of cortisol
– Prepares body for action
Stress
www.alzheimertoronto.org
– Prepares body for action
• Some stress is good and necessary
• Prolonged stress is damaging
• A good sleep is a necessity not a luxury
• Any amount of sleep deprivation will
diminish mental performance
• Practice good sleep habits
Sleep
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• Practice good sleep habits
• Be Heart healthy
– Body weight
– Blood pressure
– Cholesterol
Track your Health Numbers
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• Blood sugar levels
• See your doctor regularly
• Get treatment for depression
• Use it or lose it
Challenge Your Brain
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• Be a life long learner
• Technology and brain
health
• Stay curious
• Try something different
• Challenge your senses
Challenge Your Brain
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• Challenge your senses
• Do something new every day
What do you see?
www.alzheimertoronto.org
Riddle me this…
• If you drop me I'm sure to crack but give me
a smile and I'll always smile back. What am
I?
www.alzheimertoronto.org
I?
• It’s never too late to start
• The more you do – the better
• No guarantees
Conclusion
www.alzheimertoronto.org
• No guarantees
• Counselling
• Support groups (varied and ongoing)
• Education and Information
– Workshops/Forums
Alzheimer Society of Toronto
Services and Programs
www.alzheimertoronto.org
– Workshops/Forums
– Resource Centre/Lending Library
– In person/online
• Ipod Project
• Finding your way
Grounded in extensive neuroscience about brain-music
response, personalized music has been shown to;
Act as a conduit of memory
Improve cognition and communication
Alzheimer Toronto Music & Memory
iPod Project
www.alzheimertoronto.org
Improve cognition and communication
Improve mood
Produce other desirable forms of interaction
Key is person appropriate music selection, not age
appropriate.
o iPod Packages provided to individuals whom;
1. Diagnosis of dementia
2. Reside in Toronto (416) (caregiver or person w/ dementia)
3. Caregiver willing to provide scheduled feedback (3,6,12 mos.)
Alzheimer Toronto Music & Memory:
iPod Project
www.alzheimertoronto.org
Contact:
Sabrina McCurbin; iPod Project Coordinator
416-640-6305 smccurbin@alzheimertoronto.org
www.alzheimertoronto.org/ipod.html
Available at NO COST upon approval
Finding Your Way is a program designed to:
• Raise awareness of the risk of going missing for people with
dementia
• Help prevent missing incidents by promoting the creation of a
www.alzheimertoronto.org 2
8
• Help prevent missing incidents by promoting the creation of a
safety plan
• Support the safe return of people who do go missing
All the programs tools can be downloaded and printed from the
Finding Your Way website:
www.findingyourwayontario.ca
Questions?
www.alzheimertoronto.org
Questions?
20 Eglinton Avenue West, 16th Floor
416-322-6560

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Heads up for healthier brains

  • 1. Heads up For Healthier Brains Julie Wong www.alzheimertoronto.org Julie Wong Public Education Coordinator
  • 2. • A set of symptoms, which include loss of memory, understanding and judgment. • Reversible: delirium, depression, thyroid or heart What is Dementia? www.alzheimertoronto.org • Reversible: delirium, depression, thyroid or heart disease, alcohol abuse, malnutrition, drug interaction • Irreversible: Alzheimer’s Disease, Vascular Dementia, Fronto-temporal Disease, Lewy Body Dementia
  • 3. What is Dementia? www.alzheimertoronto.org Alzheimer’s Frontal Lewy Body Vascular Creutzfeldt Disease Temporal Disease Dementia Jakob Dementia Disease
  • 4. • 36 million people worldwide have Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia Statistics www.alzheimertoronto.org • 500,000 people in Canada have Alzheimer’s Disease or a related dementia • 71, 000 under the age of 65
  • 5. Progressive: the amount of damage done by the disease increases over time Degenerative: the nerve cells/neurons in the brain Defining Alzheimer’s Disease www.alzheimertoronto.org Degenerative: the nerve cells/neurons in the brain degenerate or break down Irreversible: damage caused by the disease cannot be repaired - at present there is no cure
  • 7. Normal Brain vs Alzheimer Brain www.alzheimertoronto.org Normal Brain Brain Atrophied by Alzheimer Disease
  • 8. Signs & Symptoms 1) Memory loss 2) Difficulty performing familiar tasks 3) Problems with language 6) Problems with abstract thinking 7) Misplacing things www.alzheimertoronto.org 3) Problems with language 4) Disorientation of time and place 5) Poor or decreased judgment 8) Changes in mood and behaviour 9) Changes in personality 10) Loss of initiative
  • 9. • Age • Gender • Genetics Risk Factors Beyond Our Control www.alzheimertoronto.org • Genetics
  • 10. Other Risk Factors • Head injury • Lack of physical exercise • Stress • Heart disease • Obesity • High cholesterol • High blood pressure www.alzheimertoronto.org • Stress • Smoking • Lack of mental or intellectual challenge • Low levels of formal education • High blood pressure • Diabetes • Depression • Others
  • 11. • Protect your head • Be socially active Take Action for a Healthier Brain www.alzheimertoronto.org • Be socially active • Choose a healthy life style • Challenge your brain
  • 13. • Join a club, hobby group or take a class • Attend church/synagogue/temple/mosque • Volunteer • Visit or be visited by relatives/ friends Be Socially Active www.alzheimertoronto.org • Visit or be visited by relatives/ friends
  • 14. • Be physically active • Make healthy food choices • Manage your stress • Get enough sleep Choose a Healthy Lifestyle www.alzheimertoronto.org • Get enough sleep • Track your health numbers • Stop smoking and moderate your alcohol consumption
  • 15. • 87% of people who own running shoes do not run • Effective exercise is regular, sustained, Be Physically Active www.alzheimertoronto.org • Effective exercise is regular, sustained, varied • Choose activities you enjoy
  • 16. • Mediterranean diet – Quality/variety – not quantity Make Healthy Food Choices www.alzheimertoronto.org – not quantity • Antioxidants • Omega-3 fatty acids • Vitamins
  • 17. • Interferes with normal physiological equilibrium in the body • Increases the release of cortisol – Prepares body for action Stress www.alzheimertoronto.org – Prepares body for action • Some stress is good and necessary • Prolonged stress is damaging
  • 18. • A good sleep is a necessity not a luxury • Any amount of sleep deprivation will diminish mental performance • Practice good sleep habits Sleep www.alzheimertoronto.org • Practice good sleep habits
  • 19. • Be Heart healthy – Body weight – Blood pressure – Cholesterol Track your Health Numbers www.alzheimertoronto.org • Blood sugar levels • See your doctor regularly • Get treatment for depression
  • 20. • Use it or lose it Challenge Your Brain www.alzheimertoronto.org • Be a life long learner • Technology and brain health
  • 21. • Stay curious • Try something different • Challenge your senses Challenge Your Brain www.alzheimertoronto.org • Challenge your senses • Do something new every day
  • 22. What do you see? www.alzheimertoronto.org
  • 23. Riddle me this… • If you drop me I'm sure to crack but give me a smile and I'll always smile back. What am I? www.alzheimertoronto.org I?
  • 24. • It’s never too late to start • The more you do – the better • No guarantees Conclusion www.alzheimertoronto.org • No guarantees
  • 25. • Counselling • Support groups (varied and ongoing) • Education and Information – Workshops/Forums Alzheimer Society of Toronto Services and Programs www.alzheimertoronto.org – Workshops/Forums – Resource Centre/Lending Library – In person/online • Ipod Project • Finding your way
  • 26. Grounded in extensive neuroscience about brain-music response, personalized music has been shown to; Act as a conduit of memory Improve cognition and communication Alzheimer Toronto Music & Memory iPod Project www.alzheimertoronto.org Improve cognition and communication Improve mood Produce other desirable forms of interaction Key is person appropriate music selection, not age appropriate.
  • 27. o iPod Packages provided to individuals whom; 1. Diagnosis of dementia 2. Reside in Toronto (416) (caregiver or person w/ dementia) 3. Caregiver willing to provide scheduled feedback (3,6,12 mos.) Alzheimer Toronto Music & Memory: iPod Project www.alzheimertoronto.org Contact: Sabrina McCurbin; iPod Project Coordinator 416-640-6305 smccurbin@alzheimertoronto.org www.alzheimertoronto.org/ipod.html Available at NO COST upon approval
  • 28. Finding Your Way is a program designed to: • Raise awareness of the risk of going missing for people with dementia • Help prevent missing incidents by promoting the creation of a www.alzheimertoronto.org 2 8 • Help prevent missing incidents by promoting the creation of a safety plan • Support the safe return of people who do go missing All the programs tools can be downloaded and printed from the Finding Your Way website: www.findingyourwayontario.ca