October 2015 Newsletter

October 2015
THE
Heritage Herald
943 N. Cascade Dr. Woodburn, OR 97071 (503) 982-1506
Celebrating October
Ergonomics Month
Organize Your Medical
Information Month
Cookbook Month
World Day of Architecture
October 5
Pet Peeve Week
October 5–9
THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW!!!
Our employee of last quarter was Flor Delgado.
Thank you, Flor for stepping up, being a team
player, and going above and beyond this last
quarter! Your co-workers and the residents truly
appreciate it!!!
We know as the holiday season approaches,
this can be a very stressful, sad, or lonely time
for some, especially if you are dealing with a
loved one who has dementia. If you find yourself
needing a little extra support, please remember
there are multiple support meetings held
monthly for family members and caregivers.
Balloons Around the
World Day
October 7
For more information, call
Christy Turner
503-530-6181
Columbus Day
October 12
We will be handing out candy on Halloween
night between 6:00pm and 8:30pm. Please feel
free to bring your ghosts and goblins by for a
treat!!
Chemistry Week
October 18–24
Count Your Buttons Day
October 21
International Artists Day
October 25
Halloween
October 31
We will also be having our
Annual Thanksgiving Dinner
November 25th
noon
Please join us if you can.
R.S.V.P.
no later than November 17th
for food purchasing purposes.
Shannon and the Heritage House Staff
October 2015
The Lady with the Lamp
Words of Wisdom
On October 21, 1854,
Florence Nightingale and
her staff of trained female
volunteer nurses set out
for Crimea near Ukraine’s
Black Sea. Reports had
reached Britain of injured
soldiers still fighting in the
Crimean War. When
Nightingale arrived, she
discovered medicine was scant, infections were
rampant, and food was in short supply. And the
hospital itself was overcrowded, poorly ventilated,
and backed up with sewage. So Nightingale
pleaded for government help in an article written
to Britain’s leading newspaper, The Times.
Holy cow, October 13 is Silly Sayings Day.
While this saying’s origins are a little obscure,
many believe it was an expression used by
baseball players in the early 1900s to tamely
express disgust while avoiding the ire of
umpires. It most likely references the cows held
sacred by Hindus.
The response was overwhelming. The
government would build a new hospital in Britain
that could be transported to and reconstructed in
Crimea. And, six months after Nightingale’s
arrival, the British Sanitary Commission ventured
to Crimea to fix the hospital’s most pressing
problems. Surgeon and biographer Stephen
Paget believes Nightingale’s actions were
responsible for reducing the hospital death rate
from 42% to 2%.
Florence Nightingale’s persuasive tactics to
improve hospital hygiene—with the government’s
help—are only part of her legacy. During the
Crimean War she earned the nickname “The
Lady with the Lamp.” Nightly, after the medical
officers had left for the night, Nightingale would
visit all the wounded soldiers, one by one, with a
lamp in her hands. This type of round-the-clock
care, coupled with her insistence on sanitation,
helped revolutionize modern nursing. She
returned to Britain a heroine and promptly
organized the Nightingale Fund to pay for the
improvement of Britain’s hospitals and the
Nightingale Training School to become the first
professional school for nurses. That legacy has
endured through the ages. Indeed, the Florence
Nightingale Museum in Britain hails her as the
most influential woman to have lived in Victorian
Britain, Queen Victoria excepted.
Perhaps silly sayings and baseball have a
special link, for one of the silliest sayers of all
was former New York Yankee Yogi Berra. He
said of his sport, “Baseball is 90% mental and
the other half is physical.” When giving directions
to his home, he once explained, “When you
come to a fork in the road, take it.” When he
saw Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris repeat
their feat of hitting back-to-back home runs, he
exclaimed, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” While
not his silliest, Berra’s most famous saying of
all remains “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”
When it comes to silly sayings, Mark Twain
may offer the best advice: “It is better to keep
your mouth closed and let people think you are
a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Heritage House Team
ADMINISTRATOR
~Shannon Souza~
AM
~Randi J~
~Flor D~
~Yuri R~
PM
~Lucy N~
~Raechel O~
~Irene B~
NOC
~Patty C~
~Maria T~
~Yleana P~
ON CALL
~June S~
~Maria M~
~Amanda C~
October 2015
What is Dementia With Lewy Bodies?
Dementia with Lewy Bodies Continued
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is one of the
most common types of progressive dementia. The
central feature of DLB is progressive cognitive
decline, combined with three additional defining
features: (1) pronounced “fluctuations” in alertness
and attention, such as frequent drowsiness, lethargy,
lengthy periods of time spent staring into space, or
disorganized speech; (2) recurrent visual
hallucinations, and (3) parkinsonian motor
symptoms, such as rigidity and the loss of
spontaneous movement. People may also suffer
from depression. The symptoms of DLB are caused
by the build-up of Lewy bodies – accumulated bits of
alpha-synuclein protein -- inside the nuclei of
neurons in areas of the brain that control particular
aspects of memory and motor control. Researchers
don’t know exactly why alpha-synuclein accumulates
into Lewy bodies or how Lewy bodies cause the
symptoms of DLB, but they do know that alphasynuclein accumulation is also linked to Parkinson's
disease, multiple system atrophy, and several other
disorders, which are referred to as the
"synucleinopathies." The similarity of symptoms
between DLB and Parkinson’s disease, and between
DLB and Alzheimer’s disease, can often make it
difficult for a doctor to make a definitive diagnosis. In
addition, Lewy bodies are often also found in the
brains of people with Parkinson's and Alzheimer’s
diseases. These findings suggest that either DLB is
related to these other causes of dementia or that an
individual can have both diseases at the same time.
DLB usually occurs sporadically, in people with no
known family history of the disease. However, rare
familial cases have occasionally been reported.
What is the prognosis?
There is no cure for DLB. Treatments are aimed at
controlling the cognitive, psychiatric, and motor
symptoms of the disorder. Acetylcholinesterase
inhibitors, such as donepezil and rivastigmine, are
primarily used to treat the cognitive symptoms of
DLB, but they may also be of some benefit in
reducing the psychiatric and motor symptoms.
Doctors tend to avoid prescribing antipsychotics for
hallucinatory symptoms of DLB because of the risk
that neuroleptic sensitivity could worsen the motor
symptoms. Some individuals with DLB may benefit
from the use of levodopa for their rigidity and loss of
spontaneous movement.
What research is being done?
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
Stroke (NINDS) conducts research related to DLB in
laboratories at the NIH and also supports additional
research through grants to major medical
institutions across the country. Much of this
research focuses on searching for the genetic roots
of DLB, exploring the molecular mechanisms of
alpha-synuclein accumulation, and discovering how
Lewy bodies cause the particular symptoms of DLB
and the other synucleinopathies. The goal of NINDS
research is to find better ways to prevent, treat, and
ultimately cure disorders such as DLB.
Working for Peanuts
On October 2, 1950,
cartoonist Charles Schultz
debuted his Peanuts comic
strip. Schultz actually hated
the name Peanuts. He had
originally named it L’il Folks,
but his publishers feared that this title was too
close to an earlier strip called Little Folks.
Schultz then decided to call it Good Old Charlie
Brown, after its lead character, but once again
his publishers intervened. Without even seeing
the strip, they named it Peanuts, which was a
common term for children in the 1950s—thanks
to The Howdy Doody Show’s “Peanut Gallery.”
The name stuck, and Charlie Brown, Snoopy,
Lucy, Linus, Sally, and the whole Peanuts gang
have become international stars, appearing in
2,600 newspapers all around the world.
© Peanuts Worldwide LLC
Is there any treatment?
Like Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease,
DLB is a neurodegenerative disorder that results in
progressive intellectual and functional deterioration.
There are no known therapies to stop or slow the
progression of DLB. Average survival after the time
of diagnosis is similar to that in Alzheimer’s disease,
about 8 years, with progressively increasing
disability.
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