Does Having Wholesome Indian Diet Keep Alzheimer's At Bay?

With an ever increasing aging population we will be seeing lot of people battling Parkinson's , Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Cancer.



Is there something which can be done to protect oneself from these deadly diseases?

Yes!

1. Good diet. But what is a good diet? Traditional Indian food ? 
2. Exercise
3. Stress free life

Let us focus on food.

A recent study has found that western diet increases the risk for Alzheimer's.

US Diet- Highest Risk

Mediterranean Diet- 50% Less Risk

Indian Diet- 50% less than Mediterraneans! 

We of course need more holistic research and data gathering from across the country.

You may read the news article here

What To Do When Your Elderly Parents Refuse Elder Care?

We have come across many instances when either parent or both initially refuse to take outside help from a trained caregiver.

This can happen because of many reasons:

1. How to trust that person?

2. Where will that person stay? Where will they sleep? What will they eat?

3. We are still fit to carry on our routine activities!

4. Which religion or caste they belong to!

5. Language spoken and understood.

The best proof is always to speak to similar situation people who have taken help. Their words and experience can be most reassuring. Get in touch with us to speak to the right people. We will visit your place, understand, reassure, make them speak to our existing or past customers.

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5 Tips for Overcoming an Elderly Parent’s Objections to Home Care

Need Help To Take Care Of Elderly?

Taking care of your elderly parents can be made easy. You need to have the right people supporting you. Our team of experts make it easy for you to take care of your elderly parent and ensure they stay healthy, functional and happy.

Elderly people have diverse requirements. Also the challenges faced by them are multitude. With decreasing muscle mass, loss of balance and other health conditions, it can become difficult for them to manage their daily needs.

It is tough for the near and dear ones to provide constant care as expected by the elderly person on account of various reasons. Under such circumstances having an attender to take care of elderly makes a big difference.

Conditions where an attender can make life easy are:

1. People who are bed ridden

2. People with Parkinson's disease

3. People with Dementia and Alzheimer's.

4. People with Stroke/Paralysis

5. Cancer patients

6. Patients with tracheostomy

7. Patients with colostomy

Require An Attender or Elderly Care Provider? Get In Touch With Us

To know the benefits and how to get an attender to suit your requirement get in touch with us. You can call us on  9845900291, 080 65775557

Do You Need An Helping Hand In Taking Care of Your Near One?

Elderly people have diverse requirements. Also the challenges faced by them are multitude. With decreasing muscle mass, loss of balance and other health conditions, it can become difficult for them to manage their daily needs.

It is tough for the near and dear ones to provide constant care as expected by the elderly person on account of various reasons. Under such circumstances having an attender to take care of elderly makes a big difference.

Conditions where an attender can make life easy are:

1. People who are bed ridden

2. People with Parkinson's disease

3. People with Dementia and Alzheimer's.

4. People with Stroke/Paralysis

5. Cancer patients

6. Patients with tracheostomy

7. Patients with colostomy

Require An Attender or Elderly Care Provider? Get In Touch With Us

To know the benefits and how to get an attender to suit your requirement get in touch with us. You can call 09886455344

Diseases With No Cure-Alzheimer's Disease

A 73 year old person, let us a retired  scientist, who is an intellectual who solves puzzles and reads widely, starts forgetting things. Slowly he is unable to remember faces and people. If he goes alone outside, he forgets the route back to his home.

With more people living longer, the chances of old age related diseases afflicting is increasing. Dementia and Alzheimer's disease is one for which there is no definitive cure as of now. We are trying to understand who is at risk and what can be done to prevent oneself from it.

Alzheimer's disease(AD)  involves progressive decline in cognition, that is all functions related to brain like memory, behaviour, understanding continue to decline.

Risk of AD is higher in people above 65 years old. In AD brain cells progressive get damaged, beginning with an area called as Hippo-campus and later the whole brain atrophies.

Risk factors for AD:

1. The more the person's age the greater the risk. The risk of developing AD reaches 50% for individuals beyond 85 years.

2. Most AD are sporadic and only 0.1% can be related to genetic.

3.Diabetes, hypertension, obesity, smoking and dyslipidemia increase the risk.

4. History of brain trauma, cerebrovascular disease also increases the risk.

5. Lesser education increases risk of AD

With increasing elderly population in India, it is time for us to be aware about AD and take precautions.

There is no definitive evidence yet about what can prevent Alzheimer’s or age-related cognitive decline. What we do know is that a healthy lifestyle—one that includes a healthy diet, physical activity, appropriate weight, not smoking.

It has been found that people who play sports or who regularly exercise along with being mentally active are the one's who are protected against dementia.

Regular sports/exercise releases a factor called as Brain Derived Growth Factor (BDGF), which helps in formation of new cells in the brain. This has the potential to prevent onset and progression of dementia.

So, the bottom line is that one needs to be mentally and physically active to prevent oneself from the chronic conditions which can afflict in old age.