November 4, 2024 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Jenny Munro about what to do you when you are diagnosed with Dementia.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 4 (00:51):
Monday Morning. Here we go Monday afternoon. Goll lee, I
missed it bus six minutes. Maybe it's daylight sayaving time.
Well maybe I'm just confused by that. Honestly, I don't
understand the confusion. Does daylight Saving time really bother you
that much?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Will no now?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Nor I it really doesn't. The frustration over daylight saving
time ended long long ago when I stopped guiding waterfowl
hunts on the Katy Prairie. Because this opening this past
weekend was opening week end of the season. Saturday and
Sunday and on Saturday, you're kind of in the groove
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of what time it's gonna get light in the morning,
and what time you need to go meet all your
people and get them out in the field and start
wallowing in the mud and whatnot. And then Sunday morning
it gets light an hour earlier. So really the waterfowl
guides amongst us, the people who are looking at daylight
(01:52):
and the half hour before sunrise or sunrise to get
their day kicked off, they got to be out there earlier.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And that that hour of sleep that we miss, we
could have gained it if we didn't do what we
did back then, But doing what we did, we had
to get up that much earlier, and it was difficult.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
So anyway, moving in here, it's day before election day
in this country. I'm not sure which is gonna be scarier,
Halloween or the election. I do know this, whichever way
the cards fall tomorrow, about well, almost half the country's
gonna be happy, and almost half the country's gonna be
sad and disappointed, and the rest of them probably gonna
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forget to vote because you know, the clocks just have
them all messed up. Record setting early voting in many
parts of the country. I've been reading and lawyers just
lining up on both sides ready this time to challenge
the results from jump, which every way it goes, there's
gonna be challenged.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You can count on that.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It's become sort of a tradition almost in the past ten,
twelve years, twenty years.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Maybe it's a sad one, honestly, and but it's almost
necessary because there is so much evidence that there is
cheating going on. It's it's no secret that dead people
are voting.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
At least one so far non citizen has actually voted
and can't have that vote taken out of the tally
because of privacy laws.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I find that very interesting.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
This this person made it all the way past all
the checkpoints and fact got himself, got himself registered to
vote as a citizen of the United States, because that's
what it has to be. That's what you're supposed to
be to vote, and then cast a vote, gets caught,
which by the way, is a felony in the state
in which he did it, and we'll see how that goes.
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The long and the short of it is, now they
can't take that vote out of the out of the count,
so you have to won. How all that happened, why
it happened, and whether or not it happened just coincidentally.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You have to wonder.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Honestly, it's just very frustrating, very frustrating not to be
pushed into the backstage by or back page, onto the
back page that's maybe a better reference.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Nature decided to say, hey, wait, look at me over here,
look at.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Me, little tropical trouble down there in the Caribbean, heading
for the Gulf of Mexico. Gonna sling it right up
toward kind of toward us. The early models show that
this thing is gonna come into the Gulf of Mexico,
and for quite some time actually almost goes straight up
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from north or south to north, almost straight through the
Gulf of Mexico, south to north, headed for the coast,
probably somewhere between eastern we're in Louisiana and Alabama. That's
what most of the models show. Now, fortunately, and they
are only models, and you know how that works. But
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knock on wood, no indication that this thing is gonna
come to Texas. Most of the models show it getting
almost to the northern Gulf coast and then hanging a
righte and kind of going, God help them back kind
of back over where there've already been a couple of
hurricanes this year.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I just hope it.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I hope it just falls apart in the middle of
the Gulf of Mexico somehow and becomes just a windy,
rainy day. I've tracked enough of these things in my
life not to get cocky about where they're gonna go
and what they're gonna do when they get there and
not do or whatever. This one isn't especially late either.
Hurricane season runs through November, always has, always will, and
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just for as a reminder because I mentioned it, I
think in the past couple of weeks there have been
named storms that hit the American East or Gulf Coast
in all twelve months of the year, so you can
never really totally drop your guard around here. However, when
the water finally gets cool enough, it won't be able
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to fuel these low pressure systems that ultimately spin up
and become something, and then we can kind of chill
out into Oh man, I've got just barely enough time. No,
I'll tell you what, I'm gonna go ahead and wait
to deliver this week's highs and lows and high coup
I don't want to rush it. I want to give
myself an opportunity to present it just as I envisioned it,
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sounding as.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I wrote it. It's really special.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
One today will I'm sure you can well imagine it
might not be either. You'll just have to figure that
out for yourself, and I'll post my guess while we're
in the middle of the break on the way out
ut helse In Institute on Aging. The Institute on Aging
is where you or I or anybody else who's a
(07:07):
senior can go to not only find that the website
you go to uth dot eedu slash aging will take
you to just this wonderful collection of resources that are
of great value.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
To anyone in our age group. All you gotta do
is go there.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Just go there once and hang around and start scrolling
and looking and tapping, and you'll see all kinds of
wonderful things that will make you want to go visit
one of the providers who is also involved in the
Institute on Aging. Because every one of those providers, many
of whom contribute, by the way, to all the sourcing
and sources in the website. Many all of those providers
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have gone back and become further educated in their specializations,
whether it's athletic trainer, whether it's Dennis doctor, what nurse,
nurse practitioner, anybody who's in the medical field has the
opportunity to become part of this, and to do so,
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you have to get that extra education so that you
understand how to apply what you already know, specifically to
us to seniors.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's kind of a big deal, it really is.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
And they've been helping for the better part of ten eleven,
maybe twelve years now, I'm not exactly sure. It's been
quite some time since the Institute on Aging was initiated
by a woman named doctor Carmel dr And since then,
everybody who's come aboard, since she passed, everybody who's come
aboard has just made.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It better and better and better. Go to the website
look for yourself utch dot edu, slash aging utch dot
edu slash.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Aging Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
All right, welcome back this Monday edition of fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Thank you for listening.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I'm Doug pie Keyswill Melbourne, and we're gonna make it
to one o'clock one way or the other. By the way,
coming up at the bottom of the hour, I'm gonna
interview a woman named Jenny mon Roe, who is We're
gonna talk about dementia because this is Alzheimer's Awareness Month,
November is and we're not gonna talk specifically about that.
It'll come up in the conversation, but what we're gonna
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do is kind of talk about what you or anyone
you know, should do if you happen to end up
being diagnosed with one or some other form of dimension.
There's a lot of emotions are gonna boil up in you,
a lot of thought, a lot of frightening crazy things
(09:52):
they're gonna go through your head. Not crazy things, but
scary things. And we're gonna talk about how to navigate
that space and who to turn to to make sure
you can get through it.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Okay, today's highs and lows in high coup off we
slash huh. It's been a little wet lately, did Yeah,
didn't get rain for what a month? Maybe a little
bit more than All of a sudden, nature says, you
know what, I checked the dipstick and it's a little low,
so I better fill her up. This high coup.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
By the way, thanks to Texas Indoor Air Quality specialists,
because cleaner air is healthier air, and it truly is that.
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All right, will you ready? Yes, careful what you wish?
(10:52):
Ask for rain and get down poores more rain through Sunday.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I feel like in the past you've been asking for rain.
Recently and now you're regretting it, don't.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I don't see any regretting that. I feel a lot
of it's just explanation now, I feel a lot of
regretting that it's a caution. I feel like you're you're sad.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That it's raining now.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I never said that. I don't. I don't want it
to rain all the way through that.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
And actually, in fairness, the the highest chance of rain
is tomorrow morning on election day.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Whoopee. I'm kind of glad I voted early. Did you
vote early?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
No, I'm voting tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Well, wear your rubber boots and bring your umbrella, will
or you're gonna come in here soaking wet.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I'll do whatever I want. Well, I know that. So
you need to grade this, haikus, what you need to do?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
This one's a four for me before look I wrote
down Yeah, I mean it's a little more than that.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Oh yeah, I'm happy I wrote down two point seven.
From your first reaction, I knew it was.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You were just.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Gonna poopoo it the whole the whole way. You weren't
gonna appreciate the creativity that went into that.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, thought, Oh time.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
All that off the market now thanks to Houston Goldexchange
dot com, where only the Dow was down this morning,
everything else was up a little bit, including oil unfortunately
north of seventy one dollars a barrel. Again, just when
you get it kind of right, administration, you get it
kind of wrong and let it get out.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Of hand again. There's no reason for that.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Gold back up a few bucks to twenty seven fifty
four and change. Last I looked and there was a
headline at Yahoo Finance.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Actually it said Wall Street counting on Powell to keep
FED rate cuts on track, and we'll see about that.
We'll see about that.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
That's a lot there's a lot of information that's coming
out just after the election. So no matter which way
it goes, we'll still have things to preoccupy us and
to keep us thinking about the economy and everything else,
and hopefully about a reduction in inflation, because the chance
the shot that the shot that this current administration took
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it the reducing inflation when they printed about a bazillion
dollars that didn't really work out. The National Broadcast Network
aka NBC played a really dangerous game with its little
cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live of Kamala Harris. The
FCC has strict rules about giving candidates equal time and
(13:44):
opportunity to make their cases to the American people, and
dropping Harris into an SNL is gets so close to
the election. Honestly, for NBC, it looks pretty damning. We'll
see if the FCC has the courage to go after
NBC and maybe find a way either to put President
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Trump on live for a few minutes tonight National TV.
That would be equal time. That's about the only way
they could correct a really big error in a potentially
hurtful mistake.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
At some point. I've read a couple of stories that
said their license could be on the line, their broadcast
license could be on the line election interference. Maybe I
don't know. I'm not sure. I have no idea. We'll
see though.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Already NBC's filed an equal time notice with the FCC
that attempts to claim kind of a no harm, no
foul deal on that. Really, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr thought differently,
and he's not happy.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
He's not happy with that network.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
The left, including our current president, continues to claim inclusivity
by the way on one hand, and continue dividing the
country on the other. President Biden said in the speech
Kamala Harris this week that he'd like to give Republicans
quote and I listen for myself.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Sometimes I have to shake my heads. No, he didn't
really say that, did He said he'd like to give
Republicans a quote, a smack in the ass end quote.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
And he followed that by saying he was serious about it.
Keep it classy, Joe, Just keep it classy.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Case you're wondering.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
By the way, Cardi B came out and endorsed Kamala Harris.
Finally we know what Cardi B said and thinks about
the presidential election. Cardi B, by the way, the woman
who sung some of the most disgusting lyrics of all
time under the under the really.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Broad reaching title of art. That's that.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
If that's art, I'm I'm really confused, I really am.
She came out and endorsed Vice President Harris never saw
that coming up in New York, by the way, And
this is how the tis just they've run out of platform.
They don't have a platform that they can say, look,
if Kamala's elected, this is the good stuff that's gonna
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happen for America. Instead, Kathy Hokele, the governor up there,
just came out and said, anybody from New York who
votes Republican is anti woman and anti American.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
That's all they've got. If you won't vote for a.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Woman who still hadn't talked about what she'll do as
president and can't tell you anything positive positive she's done
so far, well if you're not doing that, then well
you're just anti American and nannty woman.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Straight up, I would vote.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I would absolutely one hundred percent vote for a woman
in a heartbeat if she stood there and just said, look,
this is what I think America should be. This is
exactly the course I will take to bring it there.
And if those ideas aligned with mine. Not a problem,
not a problem. I would vote for anybody who could
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do that, who could speak eloquently enough to explain exactly
how they feel about all the issues that face this
country right now. And if it, if it lined up
better than the other side, then I would have absolutely
no problem, no problem with it.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Boy.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
By the way, the White House is apparently altered yet
another transcript of the president's words, despite concerns that were
raised by the stenographers who actually write down what he
says and then forward them on into the National Archives
that's supposed to be accurate one hundred percent. A Press
(17:39):
Office supervisor outline the rules regarding official documents that go
into the National Archives and made it known that the
version presented by the Press Office is different from what's
in those archives.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
They changed it. They changed it to keep.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Him from looking bad again, and all the major media
backed the press for the insulting remarks he made against
Republicans that time cover up.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Once again.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
He let the truly his true feelings were bared in
that statement. We know how he feels about the right now,
and he said.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It right out loud. We heard what we heard, and
he knew what he said, he knew exactly what he
was talking about.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
All Right, we got to take a little break here
on the way back, or when we get back, I
will bring on missus Jenny Munroe, and we.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Will see what we can do to.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Make sure that anybody at Heaven forbid. I don't even
like to talk about it, but sooner or later, somebody
in this audience is going to be diagnosed with dementia
of some form. And what I'm going to try to
do with Jenny is find ways that you can prepare
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Speaker 2 (21:23):
By welcome back.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I'm not gonna waste any time. I want to get
as much time as I can with my next guest here. Uh.
We're gonna talk in this segment about something of increasing
importance among people our age, and that's dementia. And specifically
we'll deal with the avalanche of emotions that comes with
a diagnosis of one form or another this dreadful condition.
To help I'm going to bring in gerontologist Jenny Monroe
(21:44):
with Home Instead, which provides in home care to pretty
much any senior who needs it. Welcome to fifty plus, Jenny.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Thanks Doug, thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Oh yeah, So, for anybody who didn't know, November is
Alzheimer's Awareness Month, and that probably the most devast form
of dementia in that it steals your memories and really
is as hard on a family member as it is
on the patient themselves, maybe harder in some cases.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
So let's talk about the backlash though that. Let's take
it back a few pages.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
The backlash that occurs when somebody's essentially told that their
mind is failing them and isn't going to get better.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
What comes first? Anger, I would guess, maybe denial what.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Both of them douger denial. Even as weird as it sounds,
relief is really part of that emotion if you are
the individual diagnosed with dementia, because at times you might
you know what's going on with me. You want a diagnosis,
not that diagnosis, but relief is an emotion that you
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can have along with anger and denial, as well as depression, fear,
isolation and a really sense of loss.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah. The relief I think comes in the form of Okay, well,
at least I know what it is now exactly. Yes, yeah, sure, yeah,
because go ahead, you go.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I was gonna say. Those emotions also affect the family too.
You know, you've had our relationships, say with your mother
for years, and those those emotions come to the family
that are involved with their loved ones that have been
diagnosed with it as well.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I think I would be most concerned with just what
do I do now? Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
You know, for fear of the unknown? How fast is
this going to progress? How much am I gonna lose?
When am I gonna lose it?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
And they're just so many questions, so many questions.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
So let's get into that.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Let's get in It's important to get in front of
these negative emotions before they consume us.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
So talk about good ways to deal.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
With the emotions that we're gonna feel, because so they
don't really cause any more anxiety and fear than they
have to.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Right, Well, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She lived
with Alzheimer's for over thirteen years. Thank you, and the
first place I went to to learn more about this
disease is alz dot org. It is the number one
location to find information and learn about the disease and
all the different types of dementia that are out there.
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Another thing that you can do really to take care
of your emotional emotional needs is on that website you
can find a support group. They offer free in person
and virtual support groups for the caregivers, the family members,
and even the individual people living with dementia. I learned
so much on that website from UH. They offer talks,
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they offer webinars, they provide education and information and news,
as well as other resources of a variety of different
types of dementia and caregiving topics. It was really a
great resource for me and for my family to learn,
you know, everything I needed to know about dementia, Alzheimer's
and other types of dementia.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And say the website again because I want everybody else.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
It's al z dot org o RG. It has everything
you need on that website to really educate yourself and
to get resources and support.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
You know, I came up with a question that maybe
you've been asked this before, maybe not, but if someone
in your family and someone in my family, my grandmother
died from Alzheimer's years ago.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Somebody gets that diagnosis, what are the things that family
members and friends and anybody else who really wants to
help them? What should they not say?
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Oh, that's a great question. What should they not say?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I'll go first, don't worry, it's gonna be okay.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
No, it's not exactly You're gonna be okay, sugar exactly.
You know, find out how you can support them in
any way. Go to the website again. Together, have a
family meeting. How are we going to do this together
and work together on, you know, ways to bring the
family together to help the individual living with the disease.
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Is what I would do As.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I was asking you that question, I was writing down
a word and you just said it about five times together.
Tell just tell that person we're going to get through
this together, and that that would that would make me
feel better right away?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Me too, Me too, Doug Lee.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You're definitely gonna wind up in the doctor's office a
little more often when this happens. What should we be
asking doctors once that firm diagnosis is in place and
there's no turning back.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Right, One question I would ask is, you know, how
is this disease going to progress? What can I expect
in the future. Those are two really top questions that
I would address and ask my doctor and prepare myself
as best as I can, as well as my family.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Uh gerontologists jennyman Rowe here with home instead on fifty plus.
So Alzheimer's clearly the worst of the worst, but they're
so many different ones. Can you just kind of break
off for a second and talk about specifically a couple
of diagnoses we might get that aren't just devastating but
still need to be addressed as dementia.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Sure, so there's a lot of different types of dementia,
Alzheimer's being the number one type. There's also vascular dementia,
which is, you know, more so a result after a
stroke and the blood loss to the brain. There's frenchal
temporal dementia is another type of dementia too that you
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know is located in a certain part of your brain.
So there are different types, but as we know, the
Alzheimer's is the number one type of dementia.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
There is All roads eventually kind of lead to the
same place, too.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Don't they, Yes, yes they do.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
What a cruel trick to play on as I hate,
yeah for anybody who has to deal with this, so
hated Jenny mon Roe. Thank you so very much. Home Instead.
Tell me about Home Instead in thirty seconds or less.
What's your elevator pitch for Home Instead?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Oh, I said, well, you know, we provide non medical
home care to individuals so they can live comfortably and
the safety of their own home where we want to age, right.
We want to have that familiar place where you know
we've lived for years, and and Home Instead can provide
individuals with a care pro who is individually trained in
dimension Alzheimer's, so they're educated and it's a training program
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approved by the Alzheimer's Association. So our care pros really
know how to care and communicate with those individuals living
with dimension Alzheimer's, and we can keep them safe and
in the comfort of their own home.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
I may have to talk to you guys about maybe
representing you down there, down here, or somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Anyway. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I wish I'd had you on board when when my
mom's health was failing. Thank you so much, Thank you
very much. I hate to tell you, but we're out
of time.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I gotta run that one said I really appreciate.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
My pleasure. I hope we can do it again sometime.
All right, thank you, all right, we gotta take a
little break on the way.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Boy, that was good. That was it was so short.
I could have used another hour. I don't know. It
was so good though.
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your arteries to go to for example, that the the
procedure they do most often. It's called prostate artery embolization.
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plug it up, and like I've said before, I don't
know whether they use silly putty or plato or twigs
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or sticks or bricks or whatever, but whatever they put
in there shuts off that blood supply to that prostate.
It withers away. And as it withers, so with it
go the symptoms that we're driving you crazy. Same can
be done with fibroids for women. Same can be done
in some cases with head pain. There are some headpains
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that can be traced to vascular issues that can be
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that and probably in their sleep over there, go to
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I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Fifty plus continues here's more with Doug.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Well, welcome back forth. The final segment of the show
starts now. Thanks for listening to fifty plus with Will
Melbourne and Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
The ladder of the two, the older of the two,
and dog one. It just the more handsome of the two.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I think, well, that's so funny because I was going
to say the least handsome of the two.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Oh right.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
We had a discussion off air, but in the break
I had something from National Sandwich Day which I believe
might have been I think this past Thursday maybe, and
I asked Will. I didn't talk about it on the air,
but I asked him what he thought it might be,
and he threw out a hamburger. That was a very
legitimate guess that I wouldn't have been surprised, but maybe
(32:38):
technically they didn't put hamburgers on the list or.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Did a sandwich.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yes, it is, that's true. In any event, it wasn't
that at all what it was, and it won't take
me as long to get to it as it did.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Willing me is the one of my favorites as a kid,
for sure. Grilled cheese sandwich, just a grilled cheese sandwich.
Will snooty cheese kind of sewer that he is.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
What did you say? What kind of cheese did you like?
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Like?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
I like a soft cheese of a little little gooda action.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Put that thing on the grill, will all that cheese
is gonna soften up? You realize that, right, You don't
have to pre soften your cheese.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
You're so uncultured, doug.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Anyway, as we talked, it brought me back all the
way to my childhood when I would catch a little
cold or something like that and my mother would fix
me grilled cheese sandwiches, which, by the way, I like.
I like the bread buttered on the outside and grilled
in there with the sandwich, and I like a little miracle.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Whip on my grilled cheese sandwich. What was that you
heard me, Miracle did not stutter? You heard me?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I kind of wish you did, because I wish I
did not hear that.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
It's good. You should try it. So long.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Mayonnaise, No, not mayonnaise. No, oh, whip creamy, No miracle whip.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Have you ever even heard of that?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah, I've heard of it, but I thought it was
just mayonnaise.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
No, it's not not at all. So what is white different.
It's a little sweeter than mayonnaise, and it actually has
a taste of flavor. Anyway, she would fix one of those,
and then with it would bring a bowl of tomato soup,
and I guarantee you will. In this audience, a lot
of people are kind of nodding their heads and thinking back,
(34:34):
thinking back ten twenty thirty forty, well not ten, but
maybe thirty forty fifty years ago to when they two
were treated to tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich
for lunch when they just weren't feeling top of the world.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Well, you know, they could probably still do that.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
They could, and I bet you somebody does today, even
though it's a little late in the lunch hour, like
three minutes from the top. Maybe the same afternoon, just
a little snack, tomato soup, and a grilled cheese sandwich,
A memory sandwich, that's what we'll call that. It's a
good memory sandwich. I like that, and I know you don't,
(35:13):
but that's okay. I don't have time to get into
any of these newsy things here, even though some of
them are good. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow. No, I
will do this one right now because I'll make time
for it. If you're looking for a reason to get
off your backside and do some exercise, here, any exercise
here you go. Study of more than ten thousand people
(35:35):
ages eighteen to ninety four. Average age was about fifty four,
about half of them men, half of them women.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
So we're all in the group. Okay, we're all in
the group.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
The ones who exercised at least moderately and at least
two or three days a week had healthier, larger brains physically,
larger brains, and fewer issues. Right on the heels of
our interview, just now, fewer issues with cognitive and neurological problems.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
That's it for me. That's all it's gonna take. Get
me out there.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
My wife and I went for a walk yesterday afternoon,
as a matter of fact, before it got dark. I'm
gonna start walking more. I'm gonna walk on the golf
course more. I'm gonna have to build up to eighteen holes.
I may try to walk nine with a push cart
or one of those little fancy robot carts they have
out there.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
But I'm gonna walk even if I have to walk
in the dark. Now that daylight savings time's over one minute. Okay,
We're gonna go over to the little easier stuff.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
TikTok, mix and mingle or greetings Earthlings, readings Earthlings. According
to a new study of the states where you had
the best chance of surviving an alien invasion or Virginia
and Alabama, the ones where you're most doomed, Nevada and Idaho.
(37:06):
And you can write your own punchlines for anything that
you heard, just then maybe send them to me on
by email dougpick At, iHeartMedia dot com. I got one
more short one here will all right? Well you got
tens of ore. Wait, no, this is fine. A New
York City private school said students can skip classes the
day after the election on Wednesday if they.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Feel emotionally distressed. One hundred percent absentee that day guaranteed
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Monday Morning. Here we go Monday afternoon. Goll lee, I
missed it bus six minutes. Maybe it's daylight sayaving time.
Well maybe I'm just confused by that. Honestly, I don't
understand the confusion. Does daylight Saving time really bother you
that much?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Will no now?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Nor I it really doesn't. The frustration over daylight saving
time ended long long ago when I stopped guiding waterfowl
hunts on the Katy Prairie. Because this opening this past
weekend was opening week end of the season. Saturday and
Sunday and on Saturday, you're kind of in the groove
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of what time it's gonna get light in the morning,
and what time you need to go meet all your
people and get them out in the field and start
wallowing in the mud and whatnot. And then Sunday morning
it gets light an hour earlier. So really the waterfowl
guides amongst us, the people who are looking at daylight
(01:52):
and the half hour before sunrise or sunrise to get
their day kicked off, they got to be out there earlier.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And that that hour of sleep that we miss, we
could have gained it if we didn't do what we
did back then, But doing what we did, we had
to get up that much earlier, and it was difficult.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
So anyway, moving in here, it's day before election day
in this country. I'm not sure which is gonna be scarier,
Halloween or the election. I do know this, whichever way
the cards fall tomorrow, about well, almost half the country's
gonna be happy, and almost half the country's gonna be
sad and disappointed, and the rest of them probably gonna
(02:31):
forget to vote because you know, the clocks just have
them all messed up. Record setting early voting in many
parts of the country. I've been reading and lawyers just
lining up on both sides ready this time to challenge
the results from jump, which every way it goes, there's
gonna be challenged.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You can count on that.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It's become sort of a tradition almost in the past ten,
twelve years, twenty years.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Maybe it's a sad one, honestly, and but it's almost
necessary because there is so much evidence that there is
cheating going on. It's it's no secret that dead people
are voting.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
At least one so far non citizen has actually voted
and can't have that vote taken out of the tally
because of privacy laws.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I find that very interesting.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
This this person made it all the way past all
the checkpoints and fact got himself, got himself registered to
vote as a citizen of the United States, because that's
what it has to be. That's what you're supposed to
be to vote, and then cast a vote, gets caught,
which by the way, is a felony in the state
in which he did it, and we'll see how that goes.
(03:54):
The long and the short of it is, now they
can't take that vote out of the out of the count,
so you have to won. How all that happened, why
it happened, and whether or not it happened just coincidentally.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You have to wonder.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Honestly, it's just very frustrating, very frustrating not to be
pushed into the backstage by or back page, onto the
back page that's maybe a better reference.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Nature decided to say, hey, wait, look at me over here,
look at.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Me, little tropical trouble down there in the Caribbean, heading
for the Gulf of Mexico. Gonna sling it right up
toward kind of toward us. The early models show that
this thing is gonna come into the Gulf of Mexico,
and for quite some time actually almost goes straight up
(04:49):
from north or south to north, almost straight through the
Gulf of Mexico, south to north, headed for the coast,
probably somewhere between eastern we're in Louisiana and Alabama. That's
what most of the models show. Now, fortunately, and they
are only models, and you know how that works. But
(05:10):
knock on wood, no indication that this thing is gonna
come to Texas. Most of the models show it getting
almost to the northern Gulf coast and then hanging a
righte and kind of going, God help them back kind
of back over where there've already been a couple of
hurricanes this year.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I just hope it.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I hope it just falls apart in the middle of
the Gulf of Mexico somehow and becomes just a windy,
rainy day. I've tracked enough of these things in my
life not to get cocky about where they're gonna go
and what they're gonna do when they get there and
not do or whatever. This one isn't especially late either.
Hurricane season runs through November, always has, always will, and
(05:54):
just for as a reminder because I mentioned it, I
think in the past couple of weeks there have been
named storms that hit the American East or Gulf Coast
in all twelve months of the year, so you can
never really totally drop your guard around here. However, when
the water finally gets cool enough, it won't be able
(06:17):
to fuel these low pressure systems that ultimately spin up
and become something, and then we can kind of chill
out into Oh man, I've got just barely enough time. No,
I'll tell you what, I'm gonna go ahead and wait
to deliver this week's highs and lows and high coup
I don't want to rush it. I want to give
myself an opportunity to present it just as I envisioned it,
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sounding as.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I wrote it. It's really special.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
One today will I'm sure you can well imagine it
might not be either. You'll just have to figure that
out for yourself, and I'll post my guess while we're
in the middle of the break on the way out
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Speaker 2 (07:20):
To anyone in our age group. All you gotta do
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Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's kind of a big deal, it really is.
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It better and better and better. Go to the website
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Aging Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
All right, welcome back this Monday edition of fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Thank you for listening.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I'm Doug pie Keyswill Melbourne, and we're gonna make it
to one o'clock one way or the other. By the way,
coming up at the bottom of the hour, I'm gonna
interview a woman named Jenny mon Roe, who is We're
gonna talk about dementia because this is Alzheimer's Awareness Month,
November is and we're not gonna talk specifically about that.
It'll come up in the conversation, but what we're gonna
(09:31):
do is kind of talk about what you or anyone
you know, should do if you happen to end up
being diagnosed with one or some other form of dimension.
There's a lot of emotions are gonna boil up in you,
a lot of thought, a lot of frightening crazy things
(09:52):
they're gonna go through your head. Not crazy things, but
scary things. And we're gonna talk about how to navigate
that space and who to turn to to make sure
you can get through it.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Okay, today's highs and lows in high coup off we
slash huh. It's been a little wet lately, did Yeah,
didn't get rain for what a month? Maybe a little
bit more than All of a sudden, nature says, you
know what, I checked the dipstick and it's a little low,
so I better fill her up. This high coup.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
By the way, thanks to Texas Indoor Air Quality specialists,
because cleaner air is healthier air, and it truly is that.
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they do it, and why you should get it done.
All right, will you ready? Yes, careful what you wish?
(10:52):
Ask for rain and get down poores more rain through Sunday.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I feel like in the past you've been asking for rain.
Recently and now you're regretting it, don't.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I don't see any regretting that. I feel a lot
of it's just explanation now, I feel a lot of
regretting that it's a caution. I feel like you're you're sad.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That it's raining now.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I never said that. I don't. I don't want it
to rain all the way through that.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
And actually, in fairness, the the highest chance of rain
is tomorrow morning on election day.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Whoopee. I'm kind of glad I voted early. Did you
vote early?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
No, I'm voting tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Well, wear your rubber boots and bring your umbrella, will
or you're gonna come in here soaking wet.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I'll do whatever I want. Well, I know that. So
you need to grade this, haikus, what you need to do?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
This one's a four for me before look I wrote
down Yeah, I mean it's a little more than that.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Oh yeah, I'm happy I wrote down two point seven.
From your first reaction, I knew it was.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You were just.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Gonna poopoo it the whole the whole way. You weren't
gonna appreciate the creativity that went into that.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, thought, Oh time.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
All that off the market now thanks to Houston Goldexchange
dot com, where only the Dow was down this morning,
everything else was up a little bit, including oil unfortunately
north of seventy one dollars a barrel. Again, just when
you get it kind of right, administration, you get it
kind of wrong and let it get out.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Of hand again. There's no reason for that.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Gold back up a few bucks to twenty seven fifty
four and change. Last I looked and there was a
headline at Yahoo Finance.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Actually it said Wall Street counting on Powell to keep
FED rate cuts on track, and we'll see about that.
We'll see about that.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
That's a lot there's a lot of information that's coming
out just after the election. So no matter which way
it goes, we'll still have things to preoccupy us and
to keep us thinking about the economy and everything else,
and hopefully about a reduction in inflation, because the chance
the shot that the shot that this current administration took
(13:19):
it the reducing inflation when they printed about a bazillion
dollars that didn't really work out. The National Broadcast Network
aka NBC played a really dangerous game with its little
cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live of Kamala Harris. The
FCC has strict rules about giving candidates equal time and
(13:44):
opportunity to make their cases to the American people, and
dropping Harris into an SNL is gets so close to
the election. Honestly, for NBC, it looks pretty damning. We'll
see if the FCC has the courage to go after
NBC and maybe find a way either to put President
(14:04):
Trump on live for a few minutes tonight National TV.
That would be equal time. That's about the only way
they could correct a really big error in a potentially
hurtful mistake.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
At some point. I've read a couple of stories that
said their license could be on the line, their broadcast
license could be on the line election interference. Maybe I
don't know. I'm not sure. I have no idea. We'll
see though.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Already NBC's filed an equal time notice with the FCC
that attempts to claim kind of a no harm, no
foul deal on that. Really, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr thought differently,
and he's not happy.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
He's not happy with that network.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
The left, including our current president, continues to claim inclusivity
by the way on one hand, and continue dividing the
country on the other. President Biden said in the speech
Kamala Harris this week that he'd like to give Republicans
quote and I listen for myself.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Sometimes I have to shake my heads. No, he didn't
really say that, did He said he'd like to give
Republicans a quote, a smack in the ass end quote.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
And he followed that by saying he was serious about it.
Keep it classy, Joe, Just keep it classy.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Case you're wondering.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
By the way, Cardi B came out and endorsed Kamala Harris.
Finally we know what Cardi B said and thinks about
the presidential election. Cardi B, by the way, the woman
who sung some of the most disgusting lyrics of all
time under the under the really.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Broad reaching title of art. That's that.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
If that's art, I'm I'm really confused, I really am.
She came out and endorsed Vice President Harris never saw
that coming up in New York, by the way, And
this is how the tis just they've run out of platform.
They don't have a platform that they can say, look,
if Kamala's elected, this is the good stuff that's gonna
(16:08):
happen for America. Instead, Kathy Hokele, the governor up there,
just came out and said, anybody from New York who
votes Republican is anti woman and anti American.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
That's all they've got. If you won't vote for a.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Woman who still hadn't talked about what she'll do as
president and can't tell you anything positive positive she's done
so far, well if you're not doing that, then well
you're just anti American and nannty woman.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Straight up, I would vote.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I would absolutely one hundred percent vote for a woman
in a heartbeat if she stood there and just said, look,
this is what I think America should be. This is
exactly the course I will take to bring it there.
And if those ideas aligned with mine. Not a problem,
not a problem. I would vote for anybody who could
(16:59):
do that, who could speak eloquently enough to explain exactly
how they feel about all the issues that face this
country right now. And if it, if it lined up
better than the other side, then I would have absolutely
no problem, no problem with it.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Boy.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
By the way, the White House is apparently altered yet
another transcript of the president's words, despite concerns that were
raised by the stenographers who actually write down what he
says and then forward them on into the National Archives
that's supposed to be accurate one hundred percent. A Press
(17:39):
Office supervisor outline the rules regarding official documents that go
into the National Archives and made it known that the
version presented by the Press Office is different from what's
in those archives.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
They changed it. They changed it to keep.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Him from looking bad again, and all the major media
backed the press for the insulting remarks he made against
Republicans that time cover up.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Once again.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
He let the truly his true feelings were bared in
that statement. We know how he feels about the right now,
and he said.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It right out loud. We heard what we heard, and
he knew what he said, he knew exactly what he
was talking about.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
All Right, we got to take a little break here
on the way back, or when we get back, I
will bring on missus Jenny Munroe, and we.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Will see what we can do to.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Make sure that anybody at Heaven forbid. I don't even
like to talk about it, but sooner or later, somebody
in this audience is going to be diagnosed with dementia
of some form. And what I'm going to try to
do with Jenny is find ways that you can prepare
either yourself or a family member, or maybe somebody you
who is recently diagnosed. But we want to make sure
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they will show you pictures of it. They will explain
probably how it happened. If they know and whatever that
issue is, they'll let you know if they have the
tools and the materials to fix it that already with
them on the truck, or maybe it'll take a little longer,
they'd have to go get it, or maybe come back
(20:00):
the next day. Whatever, they'll tell you how long it'll
take to fix it and how much it'll cost. My
strong recommendation at that point is to say get started,
because otherwise you're just going to kind of waste time
trying to find better work at the same price, or
a cheaper price for maybe similar work. Bottom line is, Skeeter,
(20:23):
Brawn and Bronze Roofing are going to take care of
you right the first time, quality work at a fair price.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's all he's ever.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Pitched in anything he does with anybody's roof, quality work
and a fair price. Bronzeroofing dot com is website br
a uns. Put this number in your phone so you
don't have to remember who I told you to call.
I've trusted him with my roof a couple times, actually,
with my mother's roof when she was around out there
(20:49):
in Katie and my mother in law's roof all the
way up in the Woodlands, and a lot of my
friends in between. Two eight one four eight zero ninety
nine hundred two eight one four eight zero ninety nine hundred.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
They sure don't make them like they used to. That's
why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
By welcome back.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I'm not gonna waste any time. I want to get
as much time as I can with my next guest here. Uh.
We're gonna talk in this segment about something of increasing
importance among people our age, and that's dementia. And specifically
we'll deal with the avalanche of emotions that comes with
a diagnosis of one form or another this dreadful condition.
To help I'm going to bring in gerontologist Jenny Monroe
(21:44):
with Home Instead, which provides in home care to pretty
much any senior who needs it. Welcome to fifty plus, Jenny.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Thanks Doug, thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Oh yeah, So, for anybody who didn't know, November is
Alzheimer's Awareness Month, and that probably the most devast form
of dementia in that it steals your memories and really
is as hard on a family member as it is
on the patient themselves, maybe harder in some cases.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
So let's talk about the backlash though that. Let's take
it back a few pages.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
The backlash that occurs when somebody's essentially told that their
mind is failing them and isn't going to get better.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
What comes first? Anger, I would guess, maybe denial what.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Both of them douger denial. Even as weird as it sounds,
relief is really part of that emotion if you are
the individual diagnosed with dementia, because at times you might
you know what's going on with me. You want a diagnosis,
not that diagnosis, but relief is an emotion that you
(22:46):
can have along with anger and denial, as well as depression, fear,
isolation and a really sense of loss.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah. The relief I think comes in the form of Okay, well,
at least I know what it is now exactly. Yes, yeah, sure, yeah,
because go ahead, you go.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I was gonna say. Those emotions also affect the family too.
You know, you've had our relationships, say with your mother
for years, and those those emotions come to the family
that are involved with their loved ones that have been
diagnosed with it as well.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I think I would be most concerned with just what
do I do now? Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
You know, for fear of the unknown? How fast is
this going to progress? How much am I gonna lose?
When am I gonna lose it?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
And they're just so many questions, so many questions.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
So let's get into that.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Let's get in It's important to get in front of
these negative emotions before they consume us.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
So talk about good ways to deal.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
With the emotions that we're gonna feel, because so they
don't really cause any more anxiety and fear than they
have to.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Right, Well, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She lived
with Alzheimer's for over thirteen years. Thank you, and the
first place I went to to learn more about this
disease is alz dot org. It is the number one
location to find information and learn about the disease and
all the different types of dementia that are out there.
(24:12):
Another thing that you can do really to take care
of your emotional emotional needs is on that website you
can find a support group. They offer free in person
and virtual support groups for the caregivers, the family members,
and even the individual people living with dementia. I learned
so much on that website from UH. They offer talks,
(24:34):
they offer webinars, they provide education and information and news,
as well as other resources of a variety of different
types of dementia and caregiving topics. It was really a
great resource for me and for my family to learn,
you know, everything I needed to know about dementia, Alzheimer's
and other types of dementia.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And say the website again because I want everybody else.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
It's al z dot org o RG. It has everything
you need on that website to really educate yourself and
to get resources and support.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
You know, I came up with a question that maybe
you've been asked this before, maybe not, but if someone
in your family and someone in my family, my grandmother
died from Alzheimer's years ago.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Somebody gets that diagnosis, what are the things that family
members and friends and anybody else who really wants to
help them? What should they not say?
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Oh, that's a great question. What should they not say?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I'll go first, don't worry, it's gonna be okay.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
No, it's not exactly You're gonna be okay, sugar exactly.
You know, find out how you can support them in
any way. Go to the website again. Together, have a
family meeting. How are we going to do this together
and work together on, you know, ways to bring the
family together to help the individual living with the disease.
(26:06):
Is what I would do As.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I was asking you that question, I was writing down
a word and you just said it about five times together.
Tell just tell that person we're going to get through
this together, and that that would that would make me
feel better right away?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Me too, Me too, Doug Lee.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You're definitely gonna wind up in the doctor's office a
little more often when this happens. What should we be
asking doctors once that firm diagnosis is in place and
there's no turning back.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Right, One question I would ask is, you know, how
is this disease going to progress? What can I expect
in the future. Those are two really top questions that
I would address and ask my doctor and prepare myself
as best as I can, as well as my family.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Uh gerontologists jennyman Rowe here with home instead on fifty plus.
So Alzheimer's clearly the worst of the worst, but they're
so many different ones. Can you just kind of break
off for a second and talk about specifically a couple
of diagnoses we might get that aren't just devastating but
still need to be addressed as dementia.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Sure, so there's a lot of different types of dementia,
Alzheimer's being the number one type. There's also vascular dementia,
which is, you know, more so a result after a
stroke and the blood loss to the brain. There's frenchal
temporal dementia is another type of dementia too that you
(27:36):
know is located in a certain part of your brain.
So there are different types, but as we know, the
Alzheimer's is the number one type of dementia.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
There is All roads eventually kind of lead to the
same place, too.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Don't they, Yes, yes they do.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
What a cruel trick to play on as I hate,
yeah for anybody who has to deal with this, so
hated Jenny mon Roe. Thank you so very much. Home Instead.
Tell me about Home Instead in thirty seconds or less.
What's your elevator pitch for Home Instead?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Oh, I said, well, you know, we provide non medical
home care to individuals so they can live comfortably and
the safety of their own home where we want to age, right.
We want to have that familiar place where you know
we've lived for years, and and Home Instead can provide
individuals with a care pro who is individually trained in
dimension Alzheimer's, so they're educated and it's a training program
(28:36):
approved by the Alzheimer's Association. So our care pros really
know how to care and communicate with those individuals living
with dimension Alzheimer's, and we can keep them safe and
in the comfort of their own home.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
I may have to talk to you guys about maybe
representing you down there, down here, or somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Anyway. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I wish I'd had you on board when when my
mom's health was failing. Thank you so much, Thank you
very much. I hate to tell you, but we're out
of time.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I gotta run that one said I really appreciate.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
My pleasure. I hope we can do it again sometime.
All right, thank you, all right, we gotta take a
little break on the way.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Boy, that was good. That was it was so short.
I could have used another hour. I don't know. It
was so good though.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
A late health is a place that you or I
or anybody else can go who is dealing with things
that can be fixed with vascular surgery. And by vascular surgery,
I'm not talking about split you open like a Christmas
turkey or or anything like that. I'm talking about very
fine instruments that can be maneuvered through your veins, through
(29:43):
your arteries to go to for example, that the the
procedure they do most often. It's called prostate artery embolization.
And for guys who have in large non cancerous prostates,
you know what I'm talking about. You know the symptoms,
you don't like them, you want to get rid of them,
Well they can do that for you at a late health.
What they do is they go in and identify the
(30:04):
artery that is supplying that prostate, and then they go
in with a very fine, fine little tube and they
put that tube right to where it's going into that
prostate in that artery and they shut it off. They
plug it up, and like I've said before, I don't
know whether they use silly putty or plato or twigs
(30:26):
or sticks or bricks or whatever, but whatever they put
in there shuts off that blood supply to that prostate.
It withers away. And as it withers, so with it
go the symptoms that we're driving you crazy. Same can
be done with fibroids for women. Same can be done
in some cases with head pain. There are some headpains
(30:47):
that can be traced to vascular issues that can be
alleviated ugly veins. That's a no brainer. They can do
that and probably in their sleep over there, go to
the website, take a look at what they do. Know
that everything they do gets done in their clinics. You
don't have to go to the hospital and worry about
coming home with something you didn't have when you got there.
(31:07):
A latehealth dot com is a website. They do regenerative
medicine too. I can't neglect that because that's so helpful
with chronic pain. Seven one, three, five, eight, eight, thirty
eight eighty eight. Give them a call, get yourself set
up for a little consultation over there, maybe an appointment
to just get to know them and see what they
can do for you.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
A L. A T. E. A.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Latehealth dot Com seven to one, three, five, eight, eight,
thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch, uh.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Fifty plus continues here's more with Doug.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Well, welcome back forth. The final segment of the show
starts now. Thanks for listening to fifty plus with Will
Melbourne and Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
The ladder of the two, the older of the two,
and dog one. It just the more handsome of the two.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I think, well, that's so funny because I was going
to say the least handsome of the two.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Oh right.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
We had a discussion off air, but in the break
I had something from National Sandwich Day which I believe
might have been I think this past Thursday maybe, and
I asked Will. I didn't talk about it on the air,
but I asked him what he thought it might be,
and he threw out a hamburger. That was a very
legitimate guess that I wouldn't have been surprised, but maybe
(32:38):
technically they didn't put hamburgers on the list or.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Did a sandwich.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yes, it is, that's true. In any event, it wasn't
that at all what it was, and it won't take
me as long to get to it as it did.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Willing me is the one of my favorites as a kid,
for sure. Grilled cheese sandwich, just a grilled cheese sandwich.
Will snooty cheese kind of sewer that he is.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
What did you say? What kind of cheese did you like?
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Like?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
I like a soft cheese of a little little gooda action.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Put that thing on the grill, will all that cheese
is gonna soften up? You realize that, right, You don't
have to pre soften your cheese.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
You're so uncultured, doug.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Anyway, as we talked, it brought me back all the
way to my childhood when I would catch a little
cold or something like that and my mother would fix
me grilled cheese sandwiches, which, by the way, I like.
I like the bread buttered on the outside and grilled
in there with the sandwich, and I like a little miracle.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Whip on my grilled cheese sandwich. What was that you
heard me, Miracle did not stutter? You heard me?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I kind of wish you did, because I wish I
did not hear that.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
It's good. You should try it. So long.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Mayonnaise, No, not mayonnaise. No, oh, whip creamy, No miracle whip.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Have you ever even heard of that?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah, I've heard of it, but I thought it was
just mayonnaise.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
No, it's not not at all. So what is white different.
It's a little sweeter than mayonnaise, and it actually has
a taste of flavor. Anyway, she would fix one of those,
and then with it would bring a bowl of tomato soup,
and I guarantee you will. In this audience, a lot
of people are kind of nodding their heads and thinking back,
(34:34):
thinking back ten twenty thirty forty, well not ten, but
maybe thirty forty fifty years ago to when they two
were treated to tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich
for lunch when they just weren't feeling top of the world.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Well, you know, they could probably still do that.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
They could, and I bet you somebody does today, even
though it's a little late in the lunch hour, like
three minutes from the top. Maybe the same afternoon, just
a little snack, tomato soup, and a grilled cheese sandwich,
A memory sandwich, that's what we'll call that. It's a
good memory sandwich. I like that, and I know you don't,
(35:13):
but that's okay. I don't have time to get into
any of these newsy things here, even though some of
them are good. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow. No, I
will do this one right now because I'll make time
for it. If you're looking for a reason to get
off your backside and do some exercise, here, any exercise
here you go. Study of more than ten thousand people
(35:35):
ages eighteen to ninety four. Average age was about fifty four,
about half of them men, half of them women.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
So we're all in the group. Okay, we're all in
the group.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
The ones who exercised at least moderately and at least
two or three days a week had healthier, larger brains physically,
larger brains, and fewer issues. Right on the heels of
our interview, just now, fewer issues with cognitive and neurological problems.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
That's it for me. That's all it's gonna take. Get
me out there.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
My wife and I went for a walk yesterday afternoon,
as a matter of fact, before it got dark. I'm
gonna start walking more. I'm gonna walk on the golf
course more. I'm gonna have to build up to eighteen holes.
I may try to walk nine with a push cart
or one of those little fancy robot carts they have
out there.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
But I'm gonna walk even if I have to walk
in the dark. Now that daylight savings time's over one minute. Okay,
We're gonna go over to the little easier stuff.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
TikTok, mix and mingle or greetings Earthlings, readings Earthlings. According
to a new study of the states where you had
the best chance of surviving an alien invasion or Virginia
and Alabama, the ones where you're most doomed, Nevada and Idaho.
(37:06):
And you can write your own punchlines for anything that
you heard, just then maybe send them to me on
by email dougpick At, iHeartMedia dot com. I got one
more short one here will all right? Well you got
tens of ore. Wait, no, this is fine. A New
York City private school said students can skip classes the
day after the election on Wednesday if they.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Feel emotionally distressed. One hundred percent absentee that day guaranteed
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