Pacific Living Centers, Inc. October 2019 Heritage Harold Admin: Shannon Souza RN: Debbi 943 N. Cascade Dr. Woodburn, OR 97071 503-982-1506

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

Once again, the holidays will be among us before

we know it. We thought we would get ahead of Celebrating October the game and throw out some dates. These dates are subject to change, so stay tuned for further Bat Appreciation Month details.

Italian-American Heritage We will be handing out candy to all the ghosts, Month goblins, princesses, and other characters this year. If you are in the neighborhood, please stop by and show off the fun costumes!! Our residents would Positive Attitude Month love to see all of your littles again this year.

Mystery Series Week We will be having Thanksgiving dinner this year on October 6–12 Thursday November 28th. If you are able to come, please R.S.V.P. by November 15th, so we can plan World Day of Architecture accordingly. If you have a family favorite dish, feel October 7 free to bring it for everyone to enjoy.

National Chess Day We will have details on our Christmas party in next October 9 month’s newsletter. Be sure to stay tuned for that as it is always a blast and fun is had by all!! Be Bald and Free Day October 14 Here is wishing all of you a warm and joyful Autumn!! Enjoy the leaves changing and pumpkin International Artists Day spice in the air!! October 25

P.S. STAY DRY!!!!!! All Hallows Eve October 31

What is Dementia With Lewy Bodies? Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, such as donepezil and rivastigmine, are primarily used to treat the cognitive Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is one of the most symptoms of DLB, but they may also be of some common types of progressive dementia. The central benefit in reducing the psychiatric and motor feature of DLB is progressive cognitive decline, symptoms. combined with three additional defining features: (1) pronounced “fluctuations” in alertness and attention, Doctors tend to avoid prescribing antipsychotics for such as frequent drowsiness, lethargy, lengthy periods hallucinatory symptoms of DLB because of the risk of time spent staring into space, or disorganized that neuroleptic sensitivity could worsen the motor speech; (2) recurrent visual hallucinations, and (3) symptoms. Some individuals with DLB may benefit parkinsonian motor symptoms, such as rigidity and the from the use of levodopa for their rigidity and loss of loss of spontaneous movement. People may also spontaneous movement. suffer from depression. The symptoms of DLB are What is the prognosis? caused by the build-up of Lewy bodies – accumulated Like Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, bits of alpha-synuclein protein -- inside the nuclei of DLB is a neurodegenerative disorder that results in neurons in areas of the brain that control particular progressive intellectual and functional deterioration. aspects of memory and motor control. Researchers There are no known therapies to stop or slow the don’t know exactly why alpha-synuclein accumulates progression of DLB. Average survival after the time into Lewy bodies or how Lewy bodies cause the of diagnosis is similar to that in Alzheimer’s disease, symptoms of DLB, but they do know that alpha- about 8 years, with progressively increasing synuclein accumulation is also linked to Parkinson's disability. disease, multiple system atrophy, and several other disorders, which are referred to as the What research is being done? "synucleinopathies." The similarity of symptoms The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and between DLB and Parkinson’s disease, and between Stroke (NINDS) conducts research related to DLB in DLB and Alzheimer’s disease, can often make it laboratories at the NIH and also supports additional difficult for a doctor to make a definitive diagnosis. In research through grants to major medical institutions addition, Lewy bodies are often also found in the across the country. Much of this research focuses on brains of people with Parkinson's and Alzheimer’s searching for the genetic roots of DLB, exploring the diseases. These findings suggest that either DLB is molecular mechanisms of alpha-synuclein related to these other causes of dementia or that an accumulation, and discovering how Lewy bodies individual can have both diseases at the same time. cause the particular symptoms of DLB and the other DLB usually occurs sporadically, in people with no synucleinopathies. The goal of NINDS research is to known family history of the disease. However, rare find better ways to prevent, treat, and ultimately cure familial cases have occasionally been reported. disorders such as DLB.

Is there any treatment? There is no cure for DLB. Treatments are aimed at controlling the cognitive, psychiatric, and motor symptoms of the disorder.

October 2019

The Funny Pages Heritage House Staff

Be sure to pick up a newspaper ADMINISTRATOR on October 18 so that you can Shannon Souza celebrate Newspaper Appreciation Day. The DAY SHIFT; very first comic strips appeared in the giant rivals of New York’s Lucy N. newspaper industry during the Flor D. 19th century. Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World featured the first comic strip in Mayra B. 1894, The Yellow Kid, about a down-on-his-luck SWING SHIFT; boy who hung out in Hogan’s Alley. Two short years later, William Randolph Hearst’s Morning Randi J. Journal jumped on the comic strip bandwagon Rosa C. and introduced a weekly full-color comic strip supplement. Hearst even went so far as to lure Luz M. The Yellow Kid and his creator Richard Outcault NOC SHIFT; away from the New York World. Patty C. By 1897, comics were in high demand, and Eddie S. Hearst meant to capitalize on the phenomenon. He called upon Rudolph Dirks to create a new Monica M. strip for the Sunday edition of his New York Journal. The strip followed two boys, Hans ON CALL; and Fritz, who were constantly running into Iris Z Alondra C trouble with their parents and schoolteachers. , which ran continuously A Howling Good Time from 1897 to 2006, remains the longest-running comic strip in history. Falling just a few days before Halloween, October 26 is Howl Soon, all newspapers wanted in on the comic at the Moon Night. To hear a strip act. In 1915, the San Francisco Chronicle pack of wolves howling at the debuted the first daily black-and-white comic, moon might make your hair Bud Fisher’s Mr. A. Mutt, which would later stand on end, but there become . Classics like Gasoline Alley, is really no scientific evidence to Popeye, Krazy Kat, , Li’l Abner, and show that wolves do howl began to appear all across the country specifically at the moon. The truth is that thanks to syndication. It was only a matter of time wolves howl for a variety of reasons, none before publishers realized that they could create of which have to do with the moon. Some entire books from comics. Detective Comics and howl when they are lonesome. Some howl Action Comics soon spawned enduring heroes in confrontation. Others howl to share their like Batman and Superman. Even Walt Disney, location or to warn of danger. The howling that beloved master of on-screen animation, of a pack is done to exaggerate their numbers started serving audiences a Mickey Mouse daily to rivals. Interestingly, wolves have been comic strip in 1930. Lucky for us all, comic strips associated with the moon since ancient times. endure with an almost unlimited variety. All So, too, have werewolves, that gruesome we have to do is pick up any newspaper to transformation of people into wolves. Luckily, find our favorite comic characters. werewolves are also just a myth.

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