back as how you explained that electorate and again, and i think, you know, if and when we do that, that will have huge political implications. but the marches here wanted to restore the vote to 10 times that number more than 4000000 people in 48 states who were prevented from casting a ballot last year in the wider political context. it's also above the struggle between those who want to reduce voting rights and those who want to increase them . it's not just about congress, it's about who controls the court, the police stations, and the scoreboards. b. u. s. has over half a 1000000 elected officials and the demand in this crowd on this day is that they represent all the countries people. not just some of them by cana auto 0 washington. ah, this is out, is there a easier top stories?

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you are. you do not know what day it is. you can't tell the time anymore. these are a few of their distressing symptoms of dementia coating to the world health organization right now. 55000000 people are living with dementia, but by 2050, that number could go as high as a 153000000 to day on the street. we are looking at people living with dementia that care as the families and the advances and care and treatment. we start with barza, but don't go one of the most common misunderstandings about alzheimer's disease and dementia is that people often use the terms interchangeably. but there is a difference. demand shows an umbrella term used to describe and variety of symptoms associated with ob, no more changes to their brain. symptoms can include personality changes or communication difficulties. whereas alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia contribution to roughly 60 to 70 percent of cases in those disease. high

levels of misfolded protein 1st are to aggregate in a brain region called the hippocampus. this region is known as the center for learning and memory, hence why memory losses one of the earliest symptoms of all diamonds disease. we have such an amazing paddle, so glad that they are here savannah, andrew, and car, and you can ask them anything you want. also, but 1st of all, i'm gonna get them to introduce myself to you. tell them that connection with out simon. so savannah, welcome. please introduce yourself to our audience. hi me. i'm dr. maggie, i'm a professor of neurology at the nation institute of mental sciences in a city called dangler from india. i coordinate the service for people living with dementia and for the caregivers and some research and how we can actually prevent or the new service of developing dementia and improve caps. so get to have

a welcome andrei teller. what do you think of what you do? yes, andrew birdson, i'm the chief of cognitive behavioral neurology at the veterans affairs, boston health care system. i'm also a professor of neurology at the boston university school of medicine. and i've been doing research and caring for people with alzheimer's disease and related dementia for the last 25 years to have you and cara, welcome to festering, please introduce yourself. thanks so much for me. i'm car in brockovich. i found it an organization called to major south africa, and i had a mom who was diagnosed at the age of 62 and passed away at 83. so she just with the major 4 alzheimer's disease for 21 years. and i said, i'm a social activist yet, or in or making damage her

a healthcare priority in south africa. so you, you know who i am, but you probably don't know that i have a very close family relative who is currently living with outsiders and vascular dementia. i have so many questions for our expert panelist. i'm sure you have to. one of the most difficult things is just to talk about it. if you want to talk about a, you want to share your experiences. you've got questions to ask. this is the 30 minutes to do it in you to call it section is right here for you to jump into up guess 1st or let me just show you this graph. i did mention the rise in people living with dimensions. i picked the 3 countries that you are based in united states by 2050 a 100 percent more people living with dementia in india. by the same time period, i did 97 percent more people living with dementia, south africa, 181 percent more people living with dementia. we have to get so much better at dealing with dementia. it's going to be every day. life is this savannah,

i am just thinking this has got to be we are living longer. the chances of you having a cognitive disease into your eighty's gets more and more likely is this basically what is happening? absolutely. send me the numbers that you had just shown. those are still alarming. when i was a student rec training and urology, it was so unusual to find a person living but dementia and in the seventy's, the life expectancy for indians for 15. now the chances of living up to 70 or so high, the as rapidly aging and as you know is the most part in this class dementia. so every day the clinic we have so many people coming, trying to seek help for people living with dementia and neighbors. family members it's, it's really a problem that there's affecting everybody across class,

the site, the region, gender. yes, thanks so much andrew. the whole thing has been working on the show. and now understanding the risk factors of dementia and i life's always going to change immediately. but can you mention some of those risk factors because there are areas that you mentioned that we can be prepared for? we don't, it doesn't just have to happen to us. does that? it absolutely. the world health organization has estimated that perhaps as much as 40 percent of dementia can be prevented if people implement lifestyle changes, such as exercising regularly and particularly aerobic exercise, at least 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week, and eating a healthy diet. this is usually described as the mediterranean menu of foods,

but i think many regions around the world have similar types of diets that include fish, olive oil of a car, those fruits and vegetables, nuts and beans, whole grains, and poultry. but i'm sure why, why would that help your brain stay healthy? well, there is a very good question that i'm not sure what it is is you have those foods. but i will say, i think that those are foods that help people to stay healthy. it's good for the other organs in the body, including the heart. and those are foods that also help us to maintain a healthy body weight. i know, at least in our country, in the united states, there is an epidemic of obesity. but if you eat those foods i just mentioned, you're going to be less likely to become overweight. how?

and you know, often in situations where you are working with people with dementia, you have a lot of experiences, case stories. what happens the 1st moment when you realize that either you or relative or love one or friend is showing symptoms of cognitive impairment? how? how do you know that? what would you look for so see me, that's a very good question. and you know, that's usually the question which is, which is overlooked by, by family members, because they usually say when they do see behavioral changes will cognitive changes in the loved one. they usually always trying to protect her, particularly if it's a spouse. and it usually is that they am, you know, trying to avoid that question. and, you know, don't way to look for what it really is in terms of a diagnosis or,

and one must put into effect and in a memory problem at any age is not normal. and if you know it could be something that is a reversible disease, which i'm sure andrew or a savant, it could definitely elaborate on so and that sure one common cause of memory loss. this reversible are vitamin deficiencies in vitamin b. 12 is $15.00 them and that we now know can cause the dementia. if people don't take enough of it. so it's one of the tests that we are we screen for another very common test that we screen for arthur thyroid disorders. those can also cause a syndrome that looks just like dimensions. so absolutely, there's reversible causes that your doctor can screen for savannah. you very kindly

shed a clinic with us, which was really of a family member noticing that they've been changes in a family member. and he didn't realize that it was dimension, he was kind of learning that situation and then what to do about it. so this was a video that was really an educational and awareness video that comes from india. i want to share it with you in savannah, can you come off the back of it? because those early days are very difficult as have a look. i didn't do anything about dementia, but in mid she was being really comfortable. so i said, well, she was moving her other that would be like weren't to bathroom. you being no program has made me much more than

a lot to be your deck. veronica has made this is such a common situation that we see even today in the clinic. i would see people coming coming back to me, but the same story that they really didn't understand. sometimes they did not know right. it was behaving this me why, but they're not able to recognize their closest family members by but they're not able to dress them, says feed them sounds like a nice common object. and i think the lack of badness that this is a brain disorder, or something that was still called me. and then we started off about 2030 years ago . but even now we really don't know that these are common symptoms of dementia. there's an element of stigma, so there's a tendency to kind of deny that it could be fees and you know, they just will be put in to be put into the state of helplessness. and when they

talk to others about it, there is no help coming. so the person living with dementia and that can kind of good isolated and then with the symptoms, they face the consequences all by themselves. and this is such a common problem causing a lot of damage. that in fact, it can actually be held if they just came to us early. you could just educate the care to help the person living with dementia. and so much of these of the drama without actually been prevented. i do think we need to work to de stigmatize the disease. i saw a patient in clinic yesterday who told me he was so embarrassed about his memory troubles. and i sometimes hear this from families and we need to make society around the world understand that it's a medical problem. there's nothing to be embarrassed that nobody's embarrass if

they have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, you shouldn't be embarrassed. you have memory loss. you should do something about it and try to improve things. go ahead. yeah. i agree with you there, andrew and, and a savannah. so i think that one of the, one of the biggest challenges is fear because really they, you know, the fear is, is really, is they, you know, what will become, what will not be if i can take care of myself. how will my family cope it? so there's a number of those things in south africa, we have a very particular type of, of challenge, and that is the stigma around the cultural issues. so, you know, amongst many of our indigenous population, it's regarded as the person being possessed by the end or the day of bewitched. and particularly the women are the ones that are targeted. most likely. i want to just

get it not, i don't want to pick up on the idea of fear because of something that i've seen him in my family is that if you are having issues with remembering there are things that are then happening in the house. you know, remember them, so somebody is coming in and doing them. somebody is coming in a moving that how somebody is coming in. i'm making a floor because you have no memory of that happening. so the fear of being the person who has dementia and you're surrounded by these awful things that are happening to you. that is also really, really scary. we spoke earlier to write a code still, steve silverman and, and he reminded me that there are, there's a way to look at dementia where you think about what it is possible to do rather than what you can't do. and steve brought this up here. yes. my mom hear me when she was a teenager, so we've always been like friends,

as well as like mother and son. she taught me how to read. and now i'm a writer whose workers read worldwide. i owe that to her. now she has dementia. so sometimes it's hard for her to find the right words, but her weird and brilliance still shines through as the other day when i said to her that she seemed happier than she had seemed a couple of hours before. and she said, well, you know, i'm living in a very unstable universe. thank you ma'am. that is something we haven't talked about enough, which is wicked humor. if you don't laugh, you're going to be doing an awful lot of crying. let's talk about what is possible in terms of care and advances. can we help us with care from a south african perspective? what is out there? what is possible? what can you do as a community even? well, you know, from what we in dementia is they have experience,

is we still at the time of the pandemic, one for to remain relevant. and many of the doctors and memory clinics and, and assessment paces the hospitals that weren't open in available to people for any kind of of assessment tools, diagnosis. and so we did it a number of webinar and we started a what support group. and we made every and we still do the hinge and a half, you say to meet every thursday between $1.00 and $2.00 on a 3rd on zoom and met us become a lifeline. for many, many carriers who are in the various stages of, of, in the care of a loved ones. so you would have somebody that's just been diagnosed with somebody that is, you know, much further down the line. and you know, it's that information is the live experience that understanding of the good,

the good days, the bad days. and you know, how do we handle the situation? that's very encouraging. nothing for, for many kids and family. i love to ask a savannah. this question is something that we shared with our audience on line. so on twitter, we said the number of people living with dementia is expected to nearly triple by 2050. what do you think is needed to provide better treatment and support for people with dementia and their families? of course that's a different answer for different regions than possible, different families even. but savannah, what do we need to do better? i think we just need a very dementia friendly dimension and by meant every one to be sensitive to dimension the most important because of cause the policy makers, we need the w h, jo global action plan to demand ship to come into every country. we also need for society to be sensitive to the needs of people and the families. we need to have

parks friendly. we need to have like spaces friendly. we need to have home friendly, environmental design, friendly. we need people to understand what people are going through sort of in a pleasant dementia locks on the road. he's just, he just feels supported by everybody around him to policy and a demand shifting, the environment and health care system severely and social care systems to really up the game to prepare for taking care of people the dimensions. i have got you to have questions. andrea got answers as well. you can assess under that. i, i'll probably use the crisis really. you guys know i, i just wanted to add to the other thing that i've been working on that i feel is so important is that we need to educate everyone about this disorder. so that they'll know and be empowered with how to care for these individuals in care for themselves . so i've written one book for clinicians,

one for the individual themselves who has a memory loss in one book for the families. and i'm, i think that with education people will do better. what we go about say, go ahead, go ahead though, you know, i absolutely agree with andrew and a savant because i think that it is really that understanding of the stigmatization of awareness education that really does put to make sure as, as, as a priority, you know, as a health care party, i think, you know, social care, the availability of a way in the clinics and assessments clinics and you know, it has, it has to happen, you know, on it a number of different levels. so as andrew, as mentioned,

clinicians and those in terms of the families that it's not a communicable disease that you can't catch it. you know, it's just, it's, it's a matter of fact, it happened me and you know, see how best we can do with the family. i didn't think, i mean, i mean, you can't catch it. but if you have somebody in your family who has dementia a use and going to have dimension oh there's one more in here and you go 1st guy when you get a 2nd, i'm sorry, yes. who are slightly higher risk. if you have a family member with the disease, it depends a little bit on which family member it is. but in general, your risk is considered to increase to fall to for fault with a family member with the disease con agreed. so we live on an absolutely so you know, somebody like that. so for instance,

when my mother was 62 relatively young and it was the age of unsafe and diagnosis, they do have k is quite a significant role in it. you know, you live in fear. ah, but you know, at the end of the day, you know, with the modifications of diet and exercise, it's a safer and last choices. you know, what's good for the heart is good for the brain and that, that's exactly the adage that we all need to do a job. i mean, when i lose the keys, i'm to say i've got outside mister day, i am totally convinced the i have inherited it from a family member. and i'm dude. and then i go and do some yoga, drink water and hope that that will fix it. i have got so many questions and concerns from our audience. let me share that with you very quickly and get as many as possible. cow says if a loved one present symptoms, how do you start talking about it with them in an empathetic way savannah, you want to have a go with this one? yes, i think that's the 1st step. so then your love for losing good keys?

are they forgotten what you have told them? i've forgotten what they had for breakfast. you 1st have to be assured them that it's on right. and that you have to tell them. so this is what you had for breakfast, but this is what you did yesterday. yes, it might be a memory problem. it can be helped. let's go meet the doctor, but don't worry, i'm there for you, and we'll support you through all of the. i'll be your memory. ok, all be your memory. so we get you through this. try think reassuring a person's not denying that symptom strong or g a, shooting them and telling them you'll be there and you would make life easier for them. i love that you should go meet the doctor, and things will get you will, can get help really helpful. schuler off this on youtube. let me give this to you. andrew, as a health care provider, she says something i've noticed is combative or aggressive behaviors in seniors with dementia. what do you attribute that to?

a lot of it is simply that the individual with dementia is confused. as you brought up at the beginning of the broadcast and they don't understand what's going on and usually doing things with a calm voice, with good facial expression, good by the language that's all calming and you simply explain to them. everything is all right in. let's take a look at some of your old pictures or let's have a cup of tea or do another activity that will distract them from whatever is confusing them and help them feel more comfortable. so this is really interested in the last many of the shows i'm going to ask if it instant response here. short see says if we know more about what is bringing this on, dementia, cognitive issues. and we can at least begin to avoid these things and,

and help stop that should rise in the numbers of people living with dementia. so if there was one thing that you would say, curren andrew savannah, maybe it's some new tag or an ability to care better, or maybe it's you, your caregiver should be your family members. what is it that you would say to our audience that will really help them if they are living with dementia or maybe they will do later on down the line. karen, this is a one lie thought, go ahead. i think that and you know, for, for i think it would be, you know, be accepting, be more understanding and learn about is the all right, learn about the disease at we've been doing that to day and we'll go ahead no one thought j engage in aerobic exercise, it's the best thing for patients, families, caregivers, and so exercising andrea. so it's again, all right, thank you so much and savannah,

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