SPECIAL SECTION
HEALTH & WELLNESS
HEALTH for the
Whole Family
Pets Too!
Advice to help your family
embrace a healthier lifestyle.
Brain Games
As you age, your brain continually changes. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is
important to your body and your mind. Just like it is important to exercise daily to
keep your body in shape, it is equally as important to exercise your brain. Memory
loss doesn’t occur simply due to aging, but because of brain injury, illness or disorders.
Many of these issues are due to unhealthy habits or poor lifestyle choices that could
be avoided.
Dementia is one of the most common categories of brain diseases. A common
misconception is that dementia itself is a disease, but it is not. Dementia is a term that
defines a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life including
impaired memory, communication and language, ability to focus, reasoning and
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