Research shows a 300% improvement in quality of life for dementia sufferers after a course of hypnotherapy. The study was conducted in the UK by Duff and Nightingale and was published in Alzheimer’s Care Today in 2013.
There is no cure
Dementia is
an umbrella term for about 100 different types of neurocognitive disorders. Of
these, 60% are diagnosed as having Alzheimer’s Disease and a further 20% as
having Vascular Dementia. The incidence increases with age. By the age of 65, 1
in 10 people are likely to get it. To this day, there is no cure. The greatest
difficulty for sufferers is to find an acceptable quality of life as they go
through this deterioration that can last up to 7 long years.
You forget what happened in your life
It is an
emotionally stressful and painful experience to realize that you cannot
remember things that you should. Patients begin by losing their short-term
memory and then by progressively losing memories of major life events such as
children, spouses, and all the memories accumulated throughout a lifetime.
Can you
imagine no longer recognizing people who tell you they are your children? Forgetting
how to do the most basic things like eating and dressing yourself, for example
forgetting whether underwear goes on top or underneath clothes? Being unable to
find the words to explain your distress or your needs, even forgetting where
the bathroom is that you went to a few hours before?
Patients suffer from chronic anxiety, depression and
fear of what they’ll forget next.
Hypnotherapy is one of the really good stories in this dismal disease
Fortunately,
hypnotherapy for dementia is one of the positive stories to help patients live
a better quality of life as they go through this difficult journey.
The effectiveness
of hypnotherapy is backed up by solid scientific research. The study was
conducted in the UK to evaluate the effectiveness of hypnotherapy at improving the
quality of life of sufferers. After a course of hypnotherapy, the quality of
life of patients receiving hypnosis in the study improved my 300%, based on the
7 most important criteria of quality of life.
Trained
nurses evaluated the patients before and after therapy, and then 12 months
after the last hypnotherapy session. The results were unchanged 12 months after
the end of hypnotherapy, proving its impact is long lasting.
The
criteria measured were:
1.Concentration
2.Relaxation
3.Motivation
4.Immediate memory
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5.Memory for
significant life events
6.Activities of
Daily Life
7.Socialization
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Ellen is a Dementia Therapy Specialist
If you would like to know more about hypnotherapy for Dementia, contact Ellen McNally at www.hypnosisinhongkong.com.Her email address is ellen@hypnosisinhongkong.com.
You can also reach her at her Hong Kong office at (852) 2523 7286.
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