Visiting Angels Walk To End Alzheimer’s Team Holding Fundraiser on June 2nd at Applebee’s
This is a press release from the Alzheimer’s Association:
Pictured above left to right: Lynn McKenna AIM Advocacy Chair, Jeanne O’Neale CEO of Visiting Angels, and team member Lori Cantu.
Come to Applebee’s Wednesday, June 2nd from 5:00-9:00pm and support the Visiting Angels Walk To End Alzheimer’s Team for our first fundraiser of the year. Funds raised help support world wide research to find a cure for Alzheimer’s, the 24/7 TollFree Helpline, respite grants, the Alz.org website and educational programs in both English and Spanish.The TollFree Hotline is staff by professionals who speak over 200 different languages. We want people to know that help and support is available both locally and national. If you or someone you know is dealing with dementia, please call Kim Coelho at 707-407-8826 to see how we can help. June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month. Come join us at Applebee’s to help support the fight to to have a World Without Alzheimer’s. You must present a coupon to your server when placing your order and Applebee’s will donate 15% of your total bill to our team. Coupons are available at the Visiting Angels office, 1112 5th Street Eureka (707-442-8001) or 1719 Main St. Fortuna (707-725-3611)
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Case Report Excerpts from Santa Rosa, CA by Sebastopol physician Jeffrey Hergenrather. They are from Alzheimer patients at a facility called Primrose.
*Patient has exhausted regular medications, now using cannabis has stopped her loud crying and agitation.
*Horrible hallucinations, delusions, and aggression…using cannabis only and stopped haldol.
*Alpha male with aggression and agitation got off a drug cocktail with multiple black box drugs…refused all other medicines except cannabis.
*A very pettite woman receiving full care had exhausted her behavioral medications, now she’s thriving on cannabis. It spiked her appetite and there’s a smile on her face.
*A fully immobile agitated woman on antipsychotics to the point of oversedation now on cannabis and is quiet and contented. The antipsychotics have been discontinued.
*A patient with severe aggression and agitation had a big problem with constantly picking at the skin and bleeding. Under the influence of cannabis the skin picking and aggression have ended.
Alpha female kicked out of another facility because of pushing and kicking other residents, on cannabis has calmed down and has pleasant affect.
*A hardworking gentleman with insomnia, agitation, and aggression, constantly restless. Cannabis has allowed him to slow down, stop his movement and sleep.
THC inhibits acetylcholinesterase. Compared to currently approved drugs prescribed for Alzheimer’s disease, THC is a superior inhibitor of alpha beta aggregation…cannabinoid molecules may directly impact the progression of this debilitating disease. (Scripps Research 2006, Eubanks et al)
Peeps we need to find ways to water this plant!
Somebody please send a care package to the Big Guy in D.C.
Marijuana is not medicine.
It is possible that over medicated patients act out because it’s how they communicate!
When you take away the Haldol or whatever, they probably communicate more effectively.
Being placed in an “Alzheimers Unit” is likely a horrible experience, both because you can’t leave, you feel abandoned, and you are afraid. Many medications commonly prescribed are either not given in adequate amounts or dispensed properly and regularly! The people who work in these places are poorly paid and very badly supported. If doses are missed or just never given, you will get bad behavior and withdrawal, which is very poor care indeed!
Elder care is awful, and it’s very difficult to get drugs from a physician for any patient, these days, and maintaining a supply is frustrating and difficult. SNFs are always running out, and scampering around to get the medications needed for another day!
I have personally been sent to the Rite-Aid to score the meds, and I work in the Lab!
Think about what you are saying! If the Doc is prescribing weed, he must be conducting an experiment: One I would not want to see the effects of, long term!
Weed is also expensive, and, Medicare will not pay! Many patients in “The Unit” can’t afford weed, and wouldn’t know what to do with it, much less be able to cope with being stoned instead of properly medicated…
Namaste, you jokers! Hope you never meet a bad doctor, as there are a lot of them…
Cannabis can be helpful in sooo many ways, and no real side effects like the pharmaceutical drugs. I’m a huge fan of modern medicine, but adding cannabis to the research & development process will be a good thing. The mental health experts pretty much agree that even the best drugs they offer aren’t really very helpful& they create side effects that then require more drugs.
Dope is not the answer!
Dope is a big problem…
Well, let’s get those people stoned, it makes them easier to handle.
After a while, dope won’t work either. All drugs lead to tolerance, but, marijuana will cause other behavioral conditions, like, an urge to drive a pickup that has the wheels sticking out of the wheel-wells, the urge to hide in the hollow and pinch leaves/pull tarps/build ever bigger greenhouses…
Marijuana makes you disrespect regular medicine, the rest of society, and makes you even less tolerant of general life. It makes you think you are special, when you are just another stoner.
Using marijuana on Alzheimer’s patients might calm them down a bit, but, any therapist will tell you that it’s not care, it’s just facilitative warehousing, and making the patient more comfortable for the CNA’s to handle…
Go work in a SNF before you prescribe weed for Dementia! Hope you never have to see your Mother or Father shoved into a corner bed and ignored until they die.
Namaste, Humboldt, smoke your dope, take your vaccine, enter the big drawing for $1.5 million, and, stay under the control of your benevolent government, which won’t let you have Cough Syrup with Codeine, a Vicodin under any circumstances, or, normal pain control meds or even a goddamn Xanax, which is a safe, cheap drug which will calm people down without all that stinky smoke…
And, if you let your Alzheimer’s patients have weed, you better drug-test your employees more often than once, when they are hired, or in the case of SHCHD, never…
VMG – Have you had personal experience with a spiralling Alzheimer’s patient? I have, normal meds do not work!!! When you see their face change, and their breathing return to normal, it is incredible. Get over your incredible judgmental attitude.
Namaste to all.
And where did you observe this? On you tube?
Most recently my mother died in a SNF in Yuba City. She had progressive dementia, and, a series of strokes. It was like pulling teeth to even get any controlled substances administered, even Vicodin or Xanax…
I did work in SNF’s all over Northern California. Some had Alzheimer’s Units, some didn’t.
Back in the 80’s I owned a commercial laboratory, and saw patients at 5 different Elder Care Facilities.
The mere suggestion that Marijuana, in uncontrolled doses, would be used this way, is very disturbing! Will you be there at 3AM? Around the clock? I hope this does not happen to you…
The worst thing about care facilities, is the lack of on-site physicians! They come in in the morning, do paperwork, and sign orders. Few of the patients will see an actual doctor, even once a month!
The few RN’s generally do the Admin Jobs, and everyday record keeping, administration of care and meds-dispense will be done by LVN’s. For the rest of it, “care” is delivered by CNA’s.
If Marijuana controls behavior, that’s one thing. If marijuana is “seen” to control symptoms, that’s quite another.
Medication is used in controlled doses, and under controlled conditions. The concept of medication is related to using safe amounts of known-effective medications.
Marijuana is not a known medication, and it has a constellation of effects, randomly mixed together, with an equivalent number of contraindications! Calling Marijuana “medicine” is completely ridiculous, since it can have many different effects, and have as many side-effects.
Each person’s experience is different! And, it might work today, but not down the road, due to tolerance or changing physical conditions of the patient…
A Physician that suggests trying marijuana, should be viewed with suspicion… Street drugs are never indicated, and it’s very difficult, in the ordinary facility, to get familiar drugs dispensed, much less Cannabis.
Namaste, Clear, I hope you find some Clarity without drugs.
MARIJUANA GAVE ME ALZHEIMERS , I FORGOT WHY ? ?