Bermuda Health-Abets
Bermuda Health-Abets
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This is a podcast where we discuss everything from A to Z on healthy living. With a mission of empowering, informing and motivating Bermuda residents to live well. Our guests will be experts, community partners and residents with lived experience who focus on, work with or live with all aspects of health, including social determinants of health.
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The podcast covers a wide range of healthy living topics, including HIV/AIDS awareness, population health surveys, CPR and AED importance, cancer prevention, and sickle cell disease, with episodes delving into areas such as stigma impact, early detection, community health initiatives, and personal stories from individuals affected by these health issues.
This is a podcast where we discuss everything from A to Z on healthy living. With a mission of empowering, informing and motivating Bermuda residents to live well. Our guests will be experts, community partners and residents with lived experience who focus on, work with or live with all aspects of health, including social determinants of health.
Dear Listeners,
September is World Alzheimer's Month. The purpose of this observance raise awareness, highlight prevention, dispel myths, promote early intervention, diagnosis, and support for affected individuals and their families. Bermuda, some of us think that Alzheimer's is something that just comes with aging and is just about memory loss but discourse tells us otherwise. According to the World Health Organization, many of the lifestyle behaviors that impact health and protect against chronic disease, are some of the same things we can practice to reduce our risks for Alzheimer's Disease. These things include, physically active, eating a healthy diet, not smoking, avoiding harmful alcohol consumption, and maintaining healthy blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels, staying mentally and socially active and more. Beyond prevent, early detection and understanding the local community resources for treatment and support can have a major impact on quality of life.
This episode of Bermuda Health-Abets, a podcast where we discuss everything from A to Z on healthy living, is dubbed Beyond Forgetfulness: Let's Talk about Alzheimer's Disease. #EmpoweringInformingandMotivating Bermuda residents to live well.
Our guests this episode is Dr. Jo-ann Cousins-Simpson, Functional Medicine/Primary Care GP and Dementia Certified from the BEAMS Clinic. During this episode Dr. Cousins-Simpson talks about the reasons for changing her way of practicing medicine to Functional Medicine, defines the difference between Dementia and Alzheimer's, talks about prevention, early detection, screening, diagnostic tools, sign & symptoms and more. As yo tune into this episode consider how this information can be helpful for you and your loved ones.
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Thank you for listening!
Empowering, Informing and Motivating Bermuda Residents to Live Well
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