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Lisa Paglia-Skinner is a behavior expert in the field of Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia. In the past 25+ years, Lisa has been a community counselor, a regional director of senior care facilities, a trainer, speaker and private adviser; helping thousands of families and caregivers understand the daunting challenges of brain disease. She offers counter-intuitive solutions and tools to help people effectively manage the symptoms of brain disease. Lisa holds a degree in Human Behavior. Lisa is the author of the book, Not All Who Wander Need Be Lost" Follow Lisa's blog, by the same name. What is the difference between Alzheimer's disease, other brain diseases and dementia? What are the symptoms of Dementia? Short-term memory loss, confusion, lack of reasoning and judgement, inability to task sequence, delusions, confabulation, irritability, easily angered, obsessive. How does Trump’s behavior fit the dementia profile? Gests facts, dates and situations wrong, misses or mixes up names, or says wrong ones, slurs words How about Biden and dementia? We discuss example at youtu.be/PpMAd7uXMSY that’s included in Caitlin Johnstone’s article at Consortium News, Stop Calling It a Stutter consortiumnews.com/2020/03/06/stop-calling-it-a-stutter-dozens-of-examples-show-bidens-dementia-symptoms It looks like confabulation—common behavior of people with dementia. Vascular disease can be assessed via imaging but there’s no test for Alzheimers. Time from onset to diagnosis can be years. Average duration of time people have dementia is eight to twenty years. C. How and why dementia can manifest in the way of various behaviors. What do the behaviors mean: How to recognize and interpret the various behaviors that are common with dementia; How to react/respond to the common behaviors. D. Give real examples of some of the behaviors and the importance of how one should react/respond to them. Using the "light-bulb" analogy, explain what happens to the short-term memory through the progressive stages of dementia.
Lisa Paglia-Skinner is a behavior expert in the field of Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia. In the past 25+ years, Lisa has been a community counselor, a regional director of senior care facilities, a trainer, speaker and private adviser; helping thousands of families and caregivers understand the daunting challenges of brain disease. She offers counter-intuitive solutions and tools to help people effectively manage the symptoms of brain disease. Lisa holds a degree in Human Behavior. Lisa is the author of the book, Not All Who Wander Need Be Lost" Follow Lisa's blog, by the same name. What is the difference between Alzheimer's disease, other brain diseases and dementia? What are the symptoms of Dementia? Short-term memory loss, confusion, lack of reasoning and judgement, inability to task sequence, delusions, confabulation, irritability, easily angered, obsessive. How does Trump’s behavior fit the dementia profile? Gests facts, dates and situations wrong, misses or mixes up names, or says wrong ones, slurs words How about Biden and dementia? We discuss example at youtu.be/PpMAd7uXMSY that’s included in Caitlin Johnstone’s article at Consortium News, Stop Calling It a Stutter consortiumnews.com/2020/03/06/stop-calling-it-a-stutter-dozens-of-examples-show-bidens-dementia-symptoms It looks like confabulation—common behavior of people with dementia. Vascular disease can be assessed via imaging but there’s no test for Alzheimers. Time from onset to diagnosis can be years. Average duration of time people have dementia is eight to twenty years. C. How and why dementia can manifest in the way of various behaviors. What do the behaviors mean: How to recognize and interpret the various behaviors that are common with dementia; How to react/respond to the common behaviors. D. Give real examples of some of the behaviors and the importance of how one should react/respond to them. Using the "light-bulb" analogy, explain what happens to the short-term memory through the progressive stages of dementia.
