Nonprofit organization.
Community Educators in Disease Prevention.
Certified Specialists and Master Trainers (DD-I) of Alzheimer’s disease.
Lifestyles Coaches of National Diabetes Prevention.
It has a Staff made up of graduate students and external collaborators.
Dedicated to educating on controllable external accelerators of disease.
We work in the Spanish-speaking Latino Community generating quality of life in the patient, the main caregiver, the family group, and the environment in their community.
We give weekly classes where we cover the different topics inherent to slowing down the disease in diagnosed patients and in all members of the community who are interested in understanding and preventing memory loss, through work on therapies to connect thinking skills (cognitive abilities and all the information material accumulated in memory)
We teach the Certified Specialist classes in Dementia Originated by Alzheimer’s,
6-hour class endorsed by the University of South Carolina and the Utah State Department of Health.
That Qualifies and Qualifies graduates to care for and cognitively stimulate diagnosed patients.
We teach classes on the prevention of prediabetes, an annual course, in which Quality of Life is acquired through changes in habits and customs, taught by our collaborators Lifestyle coaches certified by the CDC.
Within the educational communicative activity, we have sections on our Facebook page with different topics focused on disease prevention.
Let´s talk about Alzheimer
The loss of a person’s ability to use their mind and the progressive decline of their cognitive abilities, to a level that interferes with social and occupational functioning: it is known as DEMENTIA caused by Alzheimer’s.
In 1906 Dr. Alois Alzheimer noticed changes in the brain tissue of a person who died of mental illness.
The most striking symptoms were:
-Loss of memory
-Language deficit
-Erratic behavior
Which led him to investigate the causes, establishing the first clinical case of the disease.
We must understand that none of these symptoms is a sign of aging, it is that there is a problem in our BRAIN!!
Learning what are the signs and symptoms of the disease, the possible causes and treatment strategies, for people living with DEMENTIA caused by Alzheimer’s, is what will alert us to this disease.
Active Minds. DD-I UT 026/029
Community Educators in Disease Prevention
Certified Specialists in Alzheimer’s Dementia
If you have questions, or need more information, do not hesitate to contact us: 801-651-6928 http://www.facebook.com/mentesactivasutah/
