Autumn Leaves

Aging With and Without Dementia

By Steven E. Rubin, MD

autumn leaves cover smIs it inevitable? Does everyone who lives long enough eventually develop dementia? Might dementia be prevented, modified, or even reversed?

Aging is as natural as leaves changing color at summer's end. We may be powerless against time and occurrences of nature, but we are not helpless when it comes to growing old with health and grace. Tending to good health throughout life results in aging with dignity.

In Autumn Leaves, Steven Rubin, a psychiatrist specializing in geriatric medicine, offers common-sense insights into the biological and psychological changes that confront us all, beginning in the middle years and progressing through late life, a stage the author has termed gerolescence. Who gets dementia, who doesn't, and why? Autumn Leaves not only addresses intellectual, emotional, and behavioral declines, but also provides a framework for evaluating, correctly diagnosing, and treating them with and without medications. You'll learn how to approach and manage the losses, challenges, and opportunities that accompany the aging process.

Steven Rubin, MD, has written a book that looks at growing older, with and without dementia. Autumn Leaves asks--and answers--the crucial question, How to you want to live your remaining seasons?

The Alzheimer's Process

Top Ten Causes

By Steven E. Rubin, MD

The Alzheimer's Process

The truth is we usually do know the reasons why people develop Alzheimer's.

We are touched by dementia. Whether we visit or provide care for someone with dementia or know someone who does, it’s challenging to observe the decline of a once vital loved one. Dementia is a robber of time and of life.

Society and physicians share a moral responsibility to understand dementia and Alzheimer’s, and it’s our goal to eradicate it. Many organizations are devoted to providing services and comfort to those who are afflicted. Research efforts, medication development, and education strive to someday prevent dementia from happening and best temper its course when it does.

At the same time, so much information about dementia is being disseminated that it’s becoming increasingly important to differentiate between objective, honest knowledge and that of marketing influences. Dementia is a devastating disease and also a multi-billion dollar industry.

The intent of this book is to convey, in brief and easily understood chapters, accurate and non-commercial information about the roots of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Though I present them as separate causes, it is my fervent hope that you will see how tightly they’re interconnected.

alzheimers grid thumbnail   "The more we know, the better we can prevent Dementia from occuring."

- Dr. Steven Rubin

"The Alzheimer's Grid:
Cause, Risk and
Prevention Assessment"

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