Doubletake: Navigating the Wilderness of Grief

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🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

WORLD Radio’s Jenny Rough was worried. Last year, her memory seemed to be slipping, and few things scared her more than descending into dementia as she got older. She also came across some recent research that tied dementia and Alzheimer's disease to a person’s ability to navigate–and Jenny has always had a little trouble with maps. Worst of all, her own mother had passed away from Parkinson’s disease a few years before.So, naturally, Jenny went for a good long hike … and got lost.On this episode of Doubletake we’re going to navigate—metaphorically and literally. We’ll explore the pathways of the human brain, hike trails in the Rocky Mountains, and journey along the road of grief.Support WORLD News Group at wng.org/donate (http://wng.org/donate).

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0:00.0	From World Radio, this is Double Take.
0:04.3	I'm Les Silers.
0:05.5	I'm going to say some numbers. Listen carefully.
0:08.8	Okay.
0:09.6	Bill Beckwith is a clinical neuropsychologist, a memory care expert.
0:14.3	He lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
0:16.1	Because when I'm through, I want you to say them in the same order.
0:19.5	On a Wednesday afternoon last
0:20.9	January he met with world reporter Jenny Ruff to give her a memory assessment an
0:26.2	evaluation to see if he could detect signs of dementia 5-8-2 5-8-2
0:33.4	Jenny had noticed her memory seemed to be losing a bit of sharpness, and she does have some family history with dementia, a portion of the test focused on short-term memory.
0:44.3	Like reciting a list of phone numbers after hearing them only once.
0:48.3	Most people can retain about seven digits in their short-term memory. A phone number. But much more than that.
0:56.3	7-1-3-9-4-2-5-68. And our memory tends to fail.
1:02.7	7-4-3-9-1-4-2-6-8. He tested long-term memory, too, the ability to retrieve information Jenny learned decades ago in grade school.
1:14.0	Certain facts sprang right to mind.
1:16.2	How many minutes does it take for sunlight to reach the Earth?
1:19.3	Eight?
1:20.9	Others didn't.
1:22.8	What's the circumference of the Earth at the equator?
1:25.6	Bigger than Mars, smaller than Jupiter?
1:28.3	Uh...
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