Can Gardening Help with Dementia? Research says yes.

Gardening can help with Dementia Care
Dementia patients are often treated with medication and maybe treatment in a nursing or care home. But a growing number of experts are saying that physical activity such as gardening and being outside could help with people with dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease.
Annie Pollack is a landscape designed from Dementia Services Development Centre, Stirling University. She says there is a lot of evidence that outdoor activities can be beneficial to patients with these conditions. 
Whilst this doesn’t mean the person no longer requires care or medication, it can mean that the person is fitter, feels less stressed, feels wanted and maintains their skills.
Also, being out in the sun helps people to maintain their levels of vitamin D, which is vital for our health and wellbeing.
Tracey Jones
Tutor
www.acsedu.co.uk
ACS Distance Education offers a range of gardening, psychology and health and wellbeing courses. To find out more, see www.acsedu.com or email info@acsedu.co.uk

Donating Your Brain to Science and Art? These People Did.

Brain Donation – Helping us understand the human brain
Twelve older people have agreed to donate their brains to neuroscience when they die (five have already died). But they have also agree their right to anonymity to take part in a new exhibition that combines art and science.
The aim of the exhibition called “Mind Over Matter” is to increase our understanding of dementia. So the people involved have agreed to have their brains studied for physical signs of the disease. Even though they might not be displaying symptoms while they are alive.
The exhibition, in London, looks at the past lives of the twelve people involved and tries to demystify what happens in brain research. The exhibition is designed by artist Ania Dabrowska and Dr Bronwyn Parry from Queen Mary, University of London.

 NEUROPSYCHOLOGY ONLINE COURSE

Until the late 1800’s, scientists did not know if the nervous system was made up vast networks of connected nerve cells, or whether the cells were separate. We now know that they are, and that they carry out their enormous task of keeping the body alive and functioning, and our minds working, by means of chains of action. The human brain is estimated to have around 100 billion nerve cells working to help create apparently seamless and integrated action, thought, and body function. To understand how they interact, we must learn about their individual structure and behaviours.

Develop your understanding of the way a person’s psychology is affected by anatomical and physiological characteristics of that person’s neurological system.

Lesson Structure

There are 10 lessons in this course:

1. Foundations of Neuropsychology
2. Neurophysiology
3. Neuroanatomy
4. Laterality and Callosal Syndromes
5. Cognition, personality and emotion
6. Perception Disorders
7. Motor Disorders
8. Language
9. Dementia
10. Neurodevelopment

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Find out more about the course at - http://www.acsedu.com/courses/neuropsychology-822.aspx

STRESS MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE - HELP OTHERS WITH THEIR STRESS LEVELS

Certificate in Stress Management

With the global economic climate, the difficult work-life balance many of us experience and the stresses and strains of modern living, many of us are stressed. We might recognise we are stressed or that others are stressed, but not know how to deal with that.  This brand new Certificate in Stress Management offers you the opportunity to study stress management in your own home. You will be supported by highly qualified tutors, who are VERY experienced in supporting distance learning students.

·       Learn to help yourself and others who are experiencing stress.

·       Consider stress management as a new career or as a way to enhance your own career opportunities.

Another excellent new course from ACS Distance Education. 

Study stress management as a way to a new career or to improve your own stress.

Study three core modules –

Stress Management

Life Coaching

Personal Energy Management

Then choose from three of the following electives –

Anger Management

Counselling Skills I

Counselling Skills II

Health and Fitness I

Human Biology 1A

Human Nutrition and Food

Introduction to Psychology

Counselling Techniques

Grief Counselling

Human Nutrition II

Nutrition for Weight Control

Business Coaching

Human Nutrition III

Nutrition for Sports

Find out more about the individual modules making up this certificate and/or enrol at –

http://www.acsedu.com/courses/qualification-certificate-in-stress-management-1086.aspx

Are we losing our Britishness? Is tea no longer the national drink?

Tea – The British Drink?

Tea epitomises the British doesn’t it? Well, apparently, not so much anymore.  Typhoo have carried out research and found that younger Britons are losing their taste for the drink.

They found that –

·       54% of tea drinkers are over 45 years old.

·       4% are under 25.

·       80% still have one or more cups a day.

They found that younger people are opting for bottle water, fruit juice and soft drinks instead.

Forty years ago, tea accounted for 50% of the fluid intake of Britons. Today, it accounts for 40%. 

AND the teapot is going out of fashion. Only 0.5% of  tea drinkers under 25 use a teapot. They prefer to put the tea bag straight in the cup.

Tracey Jones

Tutor

 HUMAN NUTRITION DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE AVAILABLE FROM ACS DISTANCE EDUCATION  http://www.acsedu.com/courses/human-nutrition-food-1-705.aspx

·       Learn about food, what we eat, how it affects our health

• Lay the foundation for better food management. 

This course is something that should be undertaken by everyone and anyone involved in the food industry, or influencing what people eat: from cooks and restaurant owners, to food manufacturers and processors, life coaches and fitness instructors.

Emphasis is placed on understanding the body, the food we eat & its affects, our mental, emotional health (state of mind), and physical health.

Lesson Structure

There are 9 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction to Nutrition
2. The Digestive System
3. Absorption & Enzymes
4. Energy Value and Foods
5. Carbohydrates and Fats
6. Proteins
7. Vitamins and Minerals
8. Water
9. Nutrient Disorders

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.