As many sports fans know, Pat
Summitt was an amazing basketball coach. Scanning Wikipedia falls short to
explain how successful Summit really was. Yes, she won a silver medal in the
Montreal Olympics, as a player, in 1976, but her destiny was to become one of
the greatest basketball coaches of all time. Over the decades, the
championships kept piling up. You would have to go back to the era of John
Wooden at UCLA when to find an apt comparison. From the early 1970s, to find a
coach who was so fabulously successful. Better
to recall the good days, when her players—most of them—adored her. Why wouldn’t they. Sure, there must have
been rivalries among the players, but that is typical.
But here are some examples, from Coach Sumitt. Candace Parker
was the star of that team, from 2004 to 2008. Parker also was the first
women to dunk in an NCAA tournament.
Summitt
had several sayings.
Attitude is a choice. What you can think
you can do, whether positive or negative, confident, or scared, will most
likely happen. In a more aggressive
stance, Summitt would say, Here’s how I’m
going to beat you. That it. And finally, It’s harder to stay to on the top than it is to make the climb.
Continue to seek new goals.
And
keep in mind that Summitt was living with the disease, without knowing it. And
it seemed that her case had moved fairly swiftly. What a shame. She was
diagnosed in 2011 at age 59. What a
terrible loss . Others have gone on to live in with many years in relative good
mental health. Pat Summitt was robbed. But she would not have put it that way. After
all, the team is called the “Lady Volunteers.”
Also
in the spring edition is a feature about myths about Alzheimer’s. Progress continues, but there
are still pockets where some people are in denial. Accordingly, ALZ has published a “myth or fact”
feature.
The most misleading of the “facts” is that Alzheimer’s is
just another part of aging. Even doctors, in the early years of the 21st
Century, most doctors thought that senility was a normal process of aging. And
even more hoary was the claim that one could not die from Alzheimer’s. The next
“myth” is close to my heart. “Only old people get Alzheimer’s.” Well, I have
been writing a book about early-onset Alzheimer’s
over the past several years.
At least the myth about aluminum can sounds plausible. But
there is no evidence whatsoever that flu shots can contribute to dementia. The
last “myth” noted is more subtle: “It would be wonderful if a particular food
or supplement could delay or prevent Alzheimer’s disease, but we do not have
the science evidence that these claims are true. “We need clinical trials to
evaluate whether any food or supplement will have…It is unlikely that one food
or supplement will have a significant supplement. The Alzheimer’s Association
encourages everyone to eat a healthy diet and balanced.”
Also in this issue, Candace Parker, one of the great
women’s college basketball teams, leading to the Ladies Vols to two championships.
Then came the devastating news: Summit was diagnosed with early-onset
Alzheimer’s. There are about 200,000 cases in the United States. But back to
back are two features. The first one is “Ask us.” The writer asked this: My
78-year sister hasn’t been herself. Her house has always really neat and tidy
last time I visited it was a mess! It didn’t look at all at the place she for
more than 50 years….I’m worried something more is going on.”
And here is the reply: “As someone who knows, you are
right to be concerned. When there are distinct changes in a person’s behavior…With
that said, it can be difficult to approach someone with your concerns and recommendation.
Sometimes people may not see changes in themselves. If you are holding this
magazine in your hands, you can just look at the next at page. The title is “10
steps to memory concerns:
1. What’s the person doing or not doing
ordinary?
2. What other health or lifestyle could
be a factor
3. Has anyone noticed the change (or
changes)?
4. Who should have the conversation? Important!
5. What’s best time and place?
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