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Respite Care at NEMA: All You Need To Know!

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Respite care is a short-term stay for older adults who are cared for at home by their children, with or without a licensed caregiver's assistance. It is another word for a caregivers' short-term break. It can be scheduled for any length of time, depending on your circumstances or preferences; it can be for a single day or several weeks. Highly qualified specialists provide respite care to senior citizens in their residences or elder homes, allowing them to adjust to a new environment. It also aids in keeping you from being tired. It is primarily beneficial to the individual you are caring for. It can be given both at your home and the NEMA elder home. Why is Respite Care the need of the hour? If your family is going for a holiday or leaving for an emergency ride, you don't have to rely on reluctant relatives or neighbors to look after your elderly relatives. Your loved one can spend their holiday with us in one of our resort-style homes for senior citizens, where they can s...

NEMA Day Care: All You Need To Know!

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NEMA Daycare is a daycare for seniors who want to spend their days in a healthy, well-managed atmosphere with their friends and our resident family. It relieves the home caregiver, your children, from their daytime responsibilities while concentrating on social interaction, healthcare, and dementia care in a safe and secure environment. What makes Day Care at NEMA worth it? Elders, particularly those who have lost a spouse, feel lonely at home. Their working children leave for college, and their grandchildren attend kindergarten. Seniors seek company in stores, churches, banks, and parks or sit in front of the television for hours. Food could have been prepared early in the morning, and they may have to eat it cold or reheat it in microwaves. When their parents have a medical condition, children are worried about their parents' wellbeing and dangers. Why should life be so uninteresting and unhealthy? These are the golden years of an older adult's life, and they should be cheris...

Everything You Need To Know About Alzheimer’s Disease

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 Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common form of dementia and has shown an incidence of 11.67 per 1000 persons less than or equal to 55years of age. In India, more than 4 million people are estimated to be suffering from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, giving the country the third highest caseload in the world, after China and the US. It is challenging to deal with patients with Alzheimer’s disease because of its severe health complications. It is a neurodegenerative disease that is a progressive form of dementia. It gradually worsens as the disease advances. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases. Most people with the disease get a diagnosis after age 65. If it’s diagnosed before, it’s generally referred to as early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease causes and risk factors Alzheimer’s disease affects the elderly, I.e., Above the age of 65 years. It can be a genetic or hereditary disorder. Y...

Could some antibiotics help treat early-onset dementia?

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 Some form of dementia-like frontotemporal dementia can show early symptoms at 40. Frontotemporal dementia, or frontotemporal lobar dementia, is an umbrella term that refers to a range of early-onset dementias characterized by the progressive atrophying of the brain’s frontal lobes, temporal lobes, or both. Cognitive function impairments and personality and behavioral changes, difficulty in writing, and speaking are the significant symptoms of this kind of dementia. They are mostly genetic or hereditary. Studies suggest a genetic mutation that prevents brain cells from making a protein called progranulin. The absence of Progranulin is associated with this kind of dementia. The role of antibiotics  The brain cells that are mutated and show an absence of progranulin synthesis, in the presence of antibiotics, 'trick' the cellular machinery into making it. The researchers found two specific aminoglycoside antibiotics -- Gentamicin and G418 -- were influential in fixing the mutatio...