The 2021 Cannabis Helps Dementia podcast season launches with three episodes Friday May 14 with guests from all over the US, Canada and the world! As in the first season, co-creators Chela and Dave Coennen talk with Doctors, Nurses, Researchers and others on the front lines of senior care, as well as people living with dementia, their families and caregivers about how cannabis is helping ease symptoms associated with dementia.
With no effective treatment for Alzheimer’s and related dementias, and no cure in the pipeline, caring for people living with dementia, according to the 2021 Alzheimer’s Association Facts and Figures report, will cost the US $355B in 2021, by 2050 it could rise to $1.1Trillion.
And a panel discussion among Geriatric Specialists in the North Bay Area of California on How Cannabis Eases Anxiety and Depression among Seniors in Assisted Living and at home rounds out the first three episodes.
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Eloise Theisen, RN, Geriatric Nurse Practitioner, President of the American Cannabis Nurses Association with Geriatric Psychiatrist Dr.
Melanie Bone, pioneering medical cannabis program director of MorseLife, Florida’s only licensed “over-65 residential community, with a teaching nursing home, memory care unit, hospice, and rehabilitation facility on site” that allows medical cannabis.
Chela and the doctor do a deep dive on estrogen and THC, how menopausal hormonal imbalances increase risk for dementia and how HRT and cannabis is helping Dr.
Blake Pearson from Ontario, Canada, shares how he is successfully treating hundreds of people living with dementia using low dose, medical cannabis, reducing symptoms and polypharmacy.
Patricia Frye wrote, “The Medical Marijuana Guide: Cannabis and Your Health” which is now a textbook for one of the few Universities with a Medical Cannabis program at the University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy.
Throughout her journey, cannabis always made her seem light hearted and satisfied with life, we were so lucky to have found it,” said Chela Fiorini-Coennen, co-creator of Cannabis Helps Dementia podcast and AlzNotes.com.