{"id":4303,"date":"2012-05-11T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T12:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2012-05-11T20:48:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T12:48:45","slug":"dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4303","title":{"rendered":"Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that most of us have read about the rising incidence of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment,<br \/>\nand behavior. Most types of dementia are nonreversible (degenerative). Dementia<br \/>\nsymptoms include difficulty with many areas of mental function, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Language<\/li>\n<li>Memory<\/li>\n<li>Perception<\/li>\n<li>Emotional<br \/>\nbehavior or personality<\/li>\n<li>Cognitive skills<br \/>\n(such as calculation, abstract thinking, or judgment)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dementia usually first appears as<br \/>\nforgetfulness.<\/p>\n<p>There is growing evidence that some kinds of mental exercises can help slow down dementia. To this end, I<br \/>\nam contemplating developing a series of mental exercises which may be used<br \/>\nhopefully to help slow the effect of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>I have a series of mental<br \/>\nexercises which help children improve their learning abilities , you may want<br \/>\nto visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindmax.com.sg\/\">www.mindmax.com.sg<\/a> to know a little more. I intend to modify certain portions of the training protocol to<br \/>\nsuit senior citizens who may worry about the onset of dementia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What I have in mind is not something commercial, but a social outreach&mdash;with trainers (SHC members) going<br \/>\ndown to centres or elderly groups to train the centre helpers to run these programs.<br \/>\nSo, it remains for me to size up how many SHCian are interested to do such<br \/>\nsocial outreach programs.<\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that most of us have read about the rising incidence of dementia. Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior. Most types of dementia are nonreversible (degenerative). Dementia symptoms include difficulty with many areas of mental function, including: Language Memory Perception &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4303\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dementia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-35","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}