April, 2005
Brain Gum. Senior Moment. Brain Lightning. Brainworks. Deep Thought.
Those are among hundreds of herbal remedies and dietary supplements that baby boomers are snapping up to the tune of $450 million a year in a desperate hunt for what some experts call "brain Viagra" that might put some oomph back into their flagging memories.
Boomers also are buying memory-aid books - lots of them. Amazon.com alone carries some 30,000 tomes with "memory" or "brain" in the title, and the list is growing daily. And many are flooding the offices of their family doctors, armed with notepads full of questions about memory loss they're experiencing and asking about potential remedies. Full Article
"Doing whatever's needed." That's how Teresa Foy, OTR/L, therapy manager of the spinal cord injury program at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta sums up the role of the occupational therapist.
"OT is about teaching people skills for living and it's about adaptation," she said. "A patient wants to be able to do something and an occupational therapist will figure out a way to get him there." Full Article