Author Archives: Maureen
How singing sessions are helping people suffering from dementia
The Chron investigates how singing sessions are helping people suffering from dementia
“WITHOUT a song or a dance what are we? So I say thank you for the music,” the Abba lines are being sung enthusiastically to me by around 20 people, some of whom suffer from dementia.
They have all been brought together at a group called ‘Singing for the Brain,’ by a disease that can cruelly steal away people’s most precious memories, and can be devastating for both those affected by it, and those closest to them.
Yet listening to the jubilant singing, you would not think they had a care in the world.
Diabetes Raises the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease: Study
September 20, 2011 11:33 AM EDT
Diabetes does not just take its toll on the heart, a new study in Japan has found. It dramatically increases the risks of developing Alzheimer’s or dementia in later life.
Researchers from Kyushu University in Japan found that even when other risk factors of dementia such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking were taken into the account; the risks of vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s from diabetes was still extremely high.
Live online learning a key technology for charity L&D
Live online learning a key technology for charity L&D
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Delegates at the Charity Learning Consortium Conference, held in London last week, said that live online environments would be their preferred L&D technology for the coming 18 months.
During a conference session on “E-learning secrets of success”, delegates were asked which technologies they would be using in the coming 18 months. Live online learning was followed by custom content, cloud computing, ideo/user generated content, mobile and inhouse and external social media.
