Seven years ago my wife started getting dementia. Later it was diagnosed as AD after extensive hospital examination including scans. She was like a zombie, eyes dead, no recognition, sleeping most of the time, fought when attempting to give her a bath or clean her after befouling the bedsheets.
Then I read in the British Medical Journal that aroma therapy might be helpful if genuine lavendar or lemon oils were used. After five days of this she ceased to fight being given a bath.
Then I heard about healing music. I bought a CD player and seven CDs. They now play 24 hours a day. Some sparkle came back to her eyes.
After massaging arms, hands, legs, feet with a Chinese balm, she sleeps better. As a result she now sits up 6 to 9 hours a day and watches TV, and a grand-nephew aged 18 months.
Finally, I give great credit to a very expensive holisitc medicine, PCA/rx, [US$125- for about a two week supply of liquid sprayed under the tongue] a peptide which is a chlatherate (which means that a molecule of it will enclose a molecule of heavy metal and expel it. This appears to have resulted in a gradual reduction of plaque in the brain cells, with a medical comment that some of these cells were not dead but only clogged. She does not understand the spoken word (her hearing is OK) but now can speak up to 4 words in context to what she sees or feels. She still must be spoon fed, however, which takes time and effort. Also, she now recognizes the half dozen persons with whom she comes in daily conduct - but still does not know relatives whom she sees on occasionally. With two persons assisting, we can eve get her to do a little (so far very little) walking each day.
After only a year of the above holistic treatment, I adjudge (my personal opinion only - not a scientific determination) that my wife has improved about 15% to 20%. This means it is so very much easier to take care of her.
We live in a third world country where I can afford two women to look after her 24 hours a day in our own place with a nice tropical garden. If I were in my home country, the regular medical establishment would not allow me to utilize all this holistic type treatment. Here the M.D. permits, and in fact has reduced the prescription drugs. Her blood pressure, colesterol, and triglyceride readings have all improved.
After having been assailed so strongly in my home country with: "There's no hope. Put her in a home and forget her", I only wish to suggest that perhaps some of the above methods may provide at least a bit of help to those so afflicted.
Sincerely,
bin Obed
Then I read in the British Medical Journal that aroma therapy might be helpful if genuine lavendar or lemon oils were used. After five days of this she ceased to fight being given a bath.
Then I heard about healing music. I bought a CD player and seven CDs. They now play 24 hours a day. Some sparkle came back to her eyes.
After massaging arms, hands, legs, feet with a Chinese balm, she sleeps better. As a result she now sits up 6 to 9 hours a day and watches TV, and a grand-nephew aged 18 months.
Finally, I give great credit to a very expensive holisitc medicine, PCA/rx, [US$125- for about a two week supply of liquid sprayed under the tongue] a peptide which is a chlatherate (which means that a molecule of it will enclose a molecule of heavy metal and expel it. This appears to have resulted in a gradual reduction of plaque in the brain cells, with a medical comment that some of these cells were not dead but only clogged. She does not understand the spoken word (her hearing is OK) but now can speak up to 4 words in context to what she sees or feels. She still must be spoon fed, however, which takes time and effort. Also, she now recognizes the half dozen persons with whom she comes in daily conduct - but still does not know relatives whom she sees on occasionally. With two persons assisting, we can eve get her to do a little (so far very little) walking each day.
After only a year of the above holistic treatment, I adjudge (my personal opinion only - not a scientific determination) that my wife has improved about 15% to 20%. This means it is so very much easier to take care of her.
We live in a third world country where I can afford two women to look after her 24 hours a day in our own place with a nice tropical garden. If I were in my home country, the regular medical establishment would not allow me to utilize all this holistic type treatment. Here the M.D. permits, and in fact has reduced the prescription drugs. Her blood pressure, colesterol, and triglyceride readings have all improved.
After having been assailed so strongly in my home country with: "There's no hope. Put her in a home and forget her", I only wish to suggest that perhaps some of the above methods may provide at least a bit of help to those so afflicted.
Sincerely,
bin Obed
which is a country that I once lived in and worked for 5 years until moving to Indonesia some 15 years ago where I now live, although I’m a British subject. 
