AGL 408: Alzheimer’s with Lisa Skinner

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About Lisa Lisa Skinner is a behavioral specialist in the field of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. She is a Certified Dementia Care Trainer through the Alzheimer’s Association. In her 25-year career as a community counselor, private adviser and Regional Director of senior care facilities, she helped thousands of families and caregivers understand the daunting challenges of brain disease. Her #1 Best-seller book “Not All Who Wander Need Be Lost,” was written at their urging. Her latest book, “Truth, Lies & Alzheimer’s – Its Secret Faces” continues Skinner’s quest of working with dementia-related illnesses and teaching families how they can have a better-quality relationship with their loved ones through education and offering workshops on counter-intuitive solutions and tools to help people effectively manage the symptoms of brain disease. Lisa Skinner has appeared on many national and regional media broadcasts. For more information contact her at www.AuthorLisaSkinner.com Today We Talked About Lisa's background Alzheimer's Dementia Alzheimer's is trippling world wide Risk Factors - Genetics, Age, Gender APOE4 Heart Disease - increases inflamation Diabetes Sleep Apnia is coorliated to Alzheimer's disease lifestyle choices Mixed Dementia What to do? Inflamation from Ultra-Processed and Processed Foods Mediterranean Diet Stimulate Your Brain (start at a young age) Walking Support my friend Greg's Walk To End Alzhiemer's Connect with Lisa Book LinkedIn Leave me a tip $ Click here to Donate to the show I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word. Thanks again!