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Bridging the gap: Dementia communication strategies

Communicating with someone with dementia can be tricky, since their ability to understand others and express themselves fluctuates and declines. Certain communication strategies can help smooth interactions between caregivers and dementia patients. They include being an active listener, avoiding confrontation, agreeing with the patient's reality, removing distractions, using shorter sentences and smaller words, asking yes-or-no questions, using written lists and schedules, and incorporating touch.

Mediterranean diets lower blood sugar levels and slow brain shrinkage

Eating a traditional Mediterranean diet or green Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes more foods high in plant foods, including green tea and duckweed, may help reduce brain shrinkage, a 2024 study suggests.

Eating more fruit at midlife may help ward off later-life depression

A 2024 study found that eating more fruit during middle age may be linked with a lower risk of developing depression later in life.

Think your child has ADHD? What your pediatrician can do

Problems with attention and focus, impulsivity, and constant motion are possible symptoms of ADHD.

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