Is Thanksgiving arriving just in time this year?  There are some years when Thanksgiving is a family/friend’s dinner of gratitude for who we have and what we have in our lives.  This year is so different.  It has been a year of turmoil, and we may very likely be suffering from Crisis Fatigue. I researched that term because it popped in my head and that usually means I need to look at it closely.  Rarely do I have the TV on anymore.  It is hard to watch the news and not feel t

Over the past twenty years I have everything I could about brain aging and brain health.  I am a leading-edge boomer, and I believed that all my friends, family, and acquaintances would be as excited as I was to learn that we could change our brains.  Alzheimer’s didn’t need to be the death sentence we all feared. I was in my fifties then and was absorbing all the knowledge I could about brain health because it was an unknown entity at that time.  My friends took it as inevit

Boomers and the Alzheimer’s Crisis Part One:  The Alzheimer’s Crisis In 2015, I started the My Boomer Brain blog.  One of my very first blogs was about the Elephant in the Room – Alzheimer’s disease.  Alzheimer’s and other dementias were my focus of study while I was getting my master’s degree in gerontology.  For the ten years prior to me going back to school, I had worked with physical and occupational therapists who were addressing the physical disabilities of later stage

Boomers and the Alzheimer’s Crisis Part Two:  The Alzheimer’s Crisis Is the Boomer’s Crisis Brain aging and brain health were gaining attention in the mid-2000s.  I was starting to experience some brain glitches during that time, and it scared me!  At a conference on aging in 2006 I visited a booth by Posit Science.  They had research to support that you could stop brain aging losses by living a brain healthy lifestyle.  The conference started me on a multiyear quest to learn

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