Holistic massage and reflexology aid alzheimers

The ultimate goal is to have treatments that completely prevent or cure Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. However, this report illustrates, even modest and, perhaps, more readily available treatments could prove to be tremendously valuable.

The analysis offers an array of stark statistics and estimates.

Among them:

- 2010 - number of Americans 65+ with or that will have Alzheimers - 5.1 million.
- 2050 – number of Americans 65+ with or will have Alzheimers - 13.5 million.

However, if we could delay the age of onset by five years by 2015 we could decrease the total number of 65+ Americans with the disease by 5.8 million by 2050, the report states.

In the interim, caring for those with Alzheimers continues and this is stressful for both patient and carer. Holistic therapies such as massage can help to de-stress the carer and reflexology has been shown to calm down an Alzheimers patient confused about where they are via its re-balancing of the body.

Tami Dennis