Protect and Improve Brain Health
Life’s Essential 8
Eight simple areas to focus on to improve your cardiovascular health as a profound way to improve brain health and function as you age.
U.S. POINTER
Learn how four pillars - diet, exercise, heart health, and cognitive challenge/social engagement - can protect cognitive function in reduce your risk of dementia.
Proven Methods to Help Caregivers
The DICE Approach
A simple method to help caregivers reduce their loved ones’ agitation, depression, aggression, hallucinations, and wandering and thereby reduce their own stress and burnout.
Dementia CareAssist app
The University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center created this mobile application to help dementia caregivers manage challenging behaviors. The app walks caregivers through potential contributing factors to the problematic behavior, and provides tips to cope for each behavior.
Podcasts, Audiobooks, and eBooks
Age of Aging Podcast
Living well with an aging brain is the focus of this podcast, which is released every Tuesday and explores a broad range of topics, including new cutting-edge research and what it means to age with independence and dignity.
Books by Persons Living with Dementia
Do you have cognitive impairment or dementia? Reading books by people going through a similar experience can be extremely helpful, both emotionally and practically. We recommend checking out this great list of books written by persons living with dementia (PLWD) by the Dementia Alliance International.
MaineHealth Lending Library
This Lending Library is a fantastic resource for anyone in Maine to access a wide variety of health-related eBooks and audio books for free.
This library offers two of our favorite books for care partners, which you can find here:
National, State, and Local Organizations Here to Help
Alzheimer’s Association: alz.org
Alzheimer’s Association - Maine chapter: alz.org/maine/
A Place to Start:https://www.aplace2start.com/
Southern Maine Area on Aging: https://www.smaaa.org/
American Parkinson Disease Association
apdaparkinson.org, 1-800-223-2732
Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration: theaftd.org, 1-866-507-7222
Family Caregiver Alliance: National Center on Caregiving: caregiver.org/about-fca
Maine Parkinson Society: maineparkinsonsociety.org
The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA)
biausa.org, 1-800-444-6443
BIAA Maine Chapter: biausa.org/find-bia/maine
The Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) Coalition
multiplesystematrophy.org, 1-866-737-5999
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokeninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/frontotemporal-disorders
National Institute on Aging
nia.nih.gov/health/topics/frontotemporal-disorders
National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society
nationalmssociety.org, 1-800-344-4867