Dementia
Summer 2018, Issue #92
Dementia
By Renee Meyer, MD
There is an advertisement picturing a middle-aged couple walking down the beach. As they walk, the woman’s image slowly dissolves, leaving just one beach walker. Families of people with dementia experience this feeling of dissolution and loss. In the early stage of dementia, the afflicted patients themselves can often feel loss and sorrow as their own organizational principle weakens; their ego (as described by Rudolf Steiner) loosens, leaving them to battle with confusion and disinhibited impulses. Dementia may present as personality changes, delusions, or agitation, as well as declining memory and cognition. The disease will relentlessly progress to increasing dependence for all daily activities, and to shortened life expectancy. There are no cures and few palliative treatments, but there may be some preventive strategies.
The International Youth Initiative Program - A Personal History
By Silas Beardslee
The only truthful way for me to illustrate the International Youth Initiative Program (YIP) in Sweden, I believe, is with the story of my own experience as participant, alumnus, co-worker, and then contributor. With each passing year, and each group of individuals passing through the program, YIP becomes ever more diverse, and continues to prove that it is what you make of it.
I heard about YIP in the winter of 2007 from my sweet mother who came across a display ad in an anthroposophic magazine (it may even have been LILIPOH!).
Editor's Note
By Christy Korrow
Hello Dear Readers,
I am writing this note to you while sitting in my favorite rusty lawn chair, parked in the middle of my flower bed, Pacific Northwest Style, in full bloom.
I am filled with gratitude and more than ever, as our social and political systems are under increased pressure, I am acutely aware of my place of privilege as a white woman in our society.
LILIPOH has always had the impulse of a resistance magazine. Anthroposophic doctors struggle to have access to their preferred remedies because of FDA restrictions and the pharmaceutical industry’s influence and control over our US government regulatory systems. We have published consistently about the concerns of over-vaccinating children.
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