Brain Exercises for Dementia

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Dementia, a condition affecting the brain, causes loss in memory and thinking skills. Dementia gets worse over time. The key is slowing down the progression of this condition. One way to do this is to engage those with dementia in mentally stimulating brain exercises. Exercising your brain throughout your life is beneficial if you succumb to dementia. After your loved one has dementia, the trick is finding the right activities so your loved one keeps functioning at the highest possible level.

Predementia
According to a study published in the August 4, 2009, issue of Neurology, people who devote effort to activities that exercise the brain, such as reading, writing, and playing card games, may delay the rapid memory decline that occurs if they later develop dementia. The study found that for every activity a person participated in, the onset of rapid memory loss in dementia was delayed by 0.18 years.

"The point of accelerated decline was delayed by 1.29 years for the person who participated in 11 activities per week compared to the person who participated in only four activities per week," said study author Charles B. Hall, PhD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y. This means start engaging in activities that exercise your brain.
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All About Apples

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Aceymac
Adams Pearmain
Adanac

Akane
Akero
Akifu Fuji

Albany Beauty
Alexander
Alfriston

Alkmene
Allington Pippin
Almata

Ambrosia, USPP #10,789
American Summer Pearmain
Ananas Reinette

Anaros Anderson Jonathan
Andre Sauvage
Anna
Antonovka
Api Etoile

Arkansas Black
Arlet
Aroma

Aromatic Russet
Ashmead's Kernel
Astrachan, Red

Aurora Golden Gala®
Austin Apple (Sponsel cv.)
Autumn Gold (Hein cv.), USPP #9,907

Autumn Pearmain

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-- B --
Bailey Sweet
Baldwin
Ballarat Seedling (Stewart cv.)

Barry
Batmans Tree Battleford
Beacon
Beautiful Arcade
Beauty of Bath

Beauty of Stoke
Bedfordshire Foundling
Belle De Boskoop

Belmac
Belmont
Ben Davis

Benoni Berne Rose
Bess Pool

Beverly Hills
Billie Bound
Bismark

Black Amish
Black Gilliflower
Black Oxford

Blackjon
Blacktwig
Blaze
Blenheim
Blue Pearmain
Blushing Golden

Boiken
Bolero ®
Bonnie Best

Bonza
Bottle Greening
Braeburn

Braestar ® (Brayleet cv.)
Bramley's Seedling
Breakey

Breakwell's
Britemac
Brock

Brown Sweet
Brownlees' Russet
Buckingham

Buff
Bulmer's Norman
Burgundy

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-- C --
Calville Blanc
Calville Rouge d'Automne
Cameo (Caudle cv.), USPP #9,068

Campfield
Canada Red Canada Reinette

Captain Kidd Cardinal Von Galen
Carlos Queen

Carmeliter Reinette
Carpentin Carroll

Cat's Head Champlain Cheddar Cross

Chehalis
Chenango Strawberry
Cherry Cox

Cherry Pippin Chestnut Crab
Chieftan

Chinook, USPP #10,669, PBR #0386
Chisel Jersey
Cindy Red
Cinnamon Spice
Claygate Pearmain
Cleopatra
Coe Fuji (Ebbourcoe cv.), PPAF
Coe's Golden Drop
Cole's Quince

Colvis Spice Connell Red
Coppertone
Corail (Pinova cv.), USPP #11,601
Cornish Aromatic Cornish Gilliflower

Cort Pendu Plat Cortland
Court Of Wick
Court Pendu Plat
Cox's Orange Pippin
Crawley Beauty

Crème D’licious
Creston, USPP #10,739
Crimson Crisp

Crispin
Criterion
Crofton

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-- D --
D'Arcy Spice
Dabinett
Dandee Red, PPAF

Davenport Russet Davey
Dayton,USPP #5,584

Delblush, protected in France
Delcon
Delicious

Detroit Red
Devonshire Quarrenden
Discovery

Doctor Dologo Doctor Hogg Doctor Matthews

Dolgo Crab
Dorsett Golden
Double Red Jonathan

Duchess
Dulcet

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-- E --
Earliblaze
Earlichief Delicious Earligold, USPP #4,820

Early Harvest
Early Joe Early Mcintosh

Early Red Early Strawberry
Early Victoria
Eddie April
Edith Smith Edward VII

Egremont Russet
Ellison's Orange
Elstar

Emperor Alexander Empire
Empress

English Beauty Enterprise (Co Op 30 cv.), USPP #9,193
Epicure

Erwin Bauer
Etter's Gold
Excel Jonagold, USPP #10,314

Exeter Extra Red Gala (Wyles cv.)

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-- F --
Fall Pippin
Fallawater
Fameuse

Fearns Pippin
Fiesta
Fireside

Firmgold
Five Crown Pippin Florina (Querina cv.)

Fortune
Foxwhelp
Franklin

Frauen Rotacher
Freedom
Freyburg

Fuji
Fuji Lynd Spur (Fuji Spike cv.)
Fukunishiki
Fukutami

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Gala
Gala Supreme
Galarina (Borkh cv.)

Galaxy Gala (Kiddle cv.)
Gano
Garden Royale

Garland
Geeveston Fanny Geneva

George Carpenter
George Cave
Gernes Red Acre

Gideon Gilbert Gold
Gilpin
Ginger Gold (Mountain Cove cv.), USPP #7,063
Gloster
Gold Rush, USPP #9,932

Golden Crab
Golden Delicious
Golden Earl

Golden Haralson
Golden Hervey Golden Noble

Golden Nugget
Golden Pearmain
Golden Pippin
Golden Reinette
Golden Russet
Golden Supreme ®

Golden Sweet
Goodland
Goof

Granny Smith
Gravenstein
Gray Stark
Green Sweet
Greensleeves
Grenadier

Grimes Golden
Grove

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-- H --
Haas
Hampshire, USPP #8,519
Haralred (Lautz cv.)

Haralson
Harcourt
Hauer Pippin

Hauxapfel
Hawaii
Hawkeye Delicious

Hawley
Hayne's Seedling
Hazen

Henry Clay
Herrings Pippin
Heyer 12

Heyer 20
Hidden Rose Hightop Sweet
Hokuto
Holiday
Holly

Holstein
Honeycrisp,USPP #7,197
Honeygold

Hoople's Antique Gold
Horei Horneburger Pancake

Horse
Howgate Wonder
Hubbardston Nonesuch

Hudson's Golden Gem
Hunt Russet
Hyde King
Hyslop Crab

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Idaho Spur
Idared
Imperial Gala ®, USPP #4,121

Imperial Red Delicious Ingrid Marie
Irish Peach

Itzstedster Apfel

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-- J --
Jacob's Strawberry
James Grieve
Jefferies

Jerseymac
Jesse Hall Jonafree, USPP #4,633

Jonagold
Jonagored Supra, ®, Jonagold (Morren cv.), USPP #10,401 and/or USPP #5937
Jonalicious

Jonamac
Jonathan
Jonica Jonagold, USPP #7,146

Jonnee Red Jonathan
Jonwin
Jordan Russet

Jubilee
Juliet July Red

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-- K --
Kandil Sinap
Karin Schneider
Karmijn De Sonneville

Katja
Keepsake
Kent

Kerry Irish Pippin
Keswick Codlin
Kidd's Orange Red

King
King Cole
King David

King of the Pippins
King Of Tompkin's County
King Russet
Kingston Black
Kinsei
Kleinheart (Sponsel cv.)

Knobbed Russet

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Lady
Lady In The Snow Lady Sudeley

Lady Williams Lakeland
Lamb Apple Pearmain

Late Harrison
Lawspur Rome
Laxton's Fortune

Laxton's Superb
Leather Coat
Lehigh Greening
Lemon Pippin
Liberty
Limbertwig

Lindamac
Lobo
Lodi

Lombart's Calville
London Apple (Sponsel cv.)
Lord Lambourne

Lord Nelson Lubsk Queen
Lydia's Red Gala (Hilltop cv.)

Lyman's Large Summer

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-- M --
Macoun
Macspur
Magiemer
Magnum Bonum
Magnum Gala (Stiekema 1 cv.), USPP #11,182
Mahogany
Maiden's Blush
Maigold
Malinda

Malus Floribunda
Mantent
Margil

McIndoe's Russet McIntosh
McLean

McLellan
McLicious
McShay

Medaille d'Or Melba
Melon

Melrose
Melrouge
Mendocino Cox

Merton Beauty Merton Delight
Merton Russet
Merton's Charm
Milo Gibson
Mio
Miracle Mac
Mollie's Delicious
Moore Sweet

Mother
Mountain Boomer
Moyer's Spice

Muscadet de Dieppe
Muscat de Bernay
Muster
Mutsu

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-- N --
Nectarapple
Nehou
Newell's Large Winer
Newell's Late Orange
Newtown Pippin
Niagra

Nittany Nonesuch
Norland

Northern Lights
Northern Spy
Northfield Beauty

Northwestern Greening
Nova Easy Gro
Novamac

Novaspy
NuRed Jonathan

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Ohio Nonpareil Old Nonpareil Oliver

Ontario
Opalescent Orange Sweet

Orenco
Orin
Oriole

Orleans Reinette
Ortley Ottawa

Ozark Gold

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-- P --
Pacific Beauty
Palmer Greening
Park's Pippen

Parkland
Patterson Paula Red (Arends cv.)

Peasgood Nonsuch
Peck's Pleasant
Perrine Transparent
Perry Russet
Pettingill
Pewaukee
Pilot
Pinata
Pine Golden Pippin
Pineapple (Sponsel cv.)
Pink Lady (Cripps cv.), USPP #7,880
Pink Pearl

Pink Pearmain
Pink Princess
Pink Sparkle

Pinova
Pioneer
Pitmaston Pineapple

Pixie Crunch
Plum Crabbie (Sponsel cv.)
Polka ®

Pomme Gris
Pomme Royale Porter


Porter's Perfection
Prairie Spy
Priam

Priestly Prima Prima, USPP #Reissue 28,435
Primate

Primevere Princess
Prinzenapfel
Priscilla, USPP #3,488
Pristine ®, USPP #9881
Pumpkin Sweet

Puritan

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-- Q --
Quebec Bell
Queen Cox
Quinte

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-- R --
Ralls Genet 'Rall's Janet'
Rambo
Ramsdell Sweet

Raritan
Razor Russet
Red Astrachan

Red Baron
Red Berlepsch
Red Bietigheimer

Red Bouquet Delicious
Red Cortland
Red Delicious

Red Gold
Red Gravenstein
Red Idared

Red June
Red King Red Delicious
Red Prince Red Delicious

Red Rome
Red Royal Limbertwig
Red Spy
Red Wealthy
Red Winesap
Redchief Delicious
Redcort ®
Redfield
Redfree, USPP #4,322

Redmac McIntosh
Redmax, USPP #7,167 Redsleeves

Redspur Red Delicious
Redwell
Regal Gala (Applewaites cv.)

Regent
Reine de Reinette
Reinette de Angleterre
Reinette Gris Du Canada
Reinette Russet
Retina

Reverand Morgan
Revival
Rezista Early Jon-like ®, PPAF
Rezista Gala-like ® (Releika cv.), PPAF Rezista Gold Granny ® (Goldstar cv.), PPAF Rezista Rome-like ® (Rajka cv.)
Rhode Island Greening
Ribston Pippin
Richared

Richelieu
Rocket Red Braeburn, PPAF
Rome
Rome Beauty
Ross Nonpareil Rouville

Roxbury Russet
Royal Court TM
Royal Empire

Royal Gala
Royal Red Delicious
Royal Russet

Rubinette
Rubinola
Runkel

Rusty Coat

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-- S --
Saint Edmund's Pippin
Salome Sam Young
Sandow
Sansa, USPP #6,519
Sayaka
Scarlet Crofton Scarlet Gala (Creech cv.)
Scarlet O' Haralson (Sponsel cv.)

Scarlet O'Hara (Co op 25 cv.)
Scarlet Pippen
Schmidtberger Reinette

Schweitzer Orange Scifresh (Jazz cv.)
Scotia
Scotian Spur McIntosh, USPP #10,770
Seek-no-further
Seiko-fu Red Fuji

Sekai Ichi
Senator
Senshu

September Wonder Fuji (Fiero cv.), USPP #11,193
Shamrock
Sharon

Shay
Shiawassee
Shinsei

Shizuka
Sierra Beauty
Signe Tillisch

Silken (BC 8S-4-33 cv.), USPP #10740, PBR #95-670
Sinta
Sir Prize, USPP #3,988

Skinner's Seedling
Smokehouse
Smoothee ® Golden Delicious

Snow
Somerset of Maine Sonata, USPP #11,601

Sops of Wine
Spartan
Spencer

Spigold
Spijon
Spitzenburg

Splendour
Sponselli (Sponsel cv.)
Spur Gala (Lynd cv.)

Spur Winter Banana
Spuree Rome
Stark Spur Delicious

Starking Delicious
Starkrimson Red Delicious (Bisbee cv.)
Starks Gala

Starr
State Fair
Staybrite Winesap
Stayman
Stayman Winesap
Stearns

Strawberry Strawberry Chenango
Strawberry Parfait

Strawberry Pippin
Sturdeespur (Miller cv.)
Sturmer
Sturmer Pippin
Sugar Shack (Sponsel cv.)
Summer Mac

Summer Pearmain
Summer Rambo
Summer Rose

Summer Treat
Summer Yellow Summerred
Sun Fuji, R Suncrisp (NJ55 cv.), USPP #8,648
Sundance

Sundown (Cripps II cv.), USPP #8,477
Sunny Brook
Sunrise

Sunset
Suntan
Superchief Spur Red Delicious

Surprise
Sutton Beauty
Swaar

Swayzie
Sweet Alford
Sweet Bough

Sweet Delicious
Sweet Gourmet Sweet Russet
Sweet Sixteen
Sweet Winesap
Swiss Gourmet (Arlet cv.), USPP #6,689

Swiss Limbertwig

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Tallow Pippin
Taylor
Telstar

Thome Empire
Tiger (Sponsel cv.)
Tioga

Tohoku Toko
Tolman Sweet

Tompkin's King
Top Red Red Delicious
Transcendent Crab

Transparent Tremlett's Bitter
Triple E Fuji (Torres cv.) USPP #12,219

Tsugaru
Tumanga
Turley Winesap

Twenty Ounce
Twin Bee Gala Tydeman's Early
Tydeman's Late Orange
Tydeman's Red

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-- U --
Ultrared Gala (Obrogala cv.)

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-- V --
Valstar Elstar ®, PPAF
Vanda
Vanderpool Red

Victory
Viking
Virginia Gold
Virginia Greening
Vista Bella

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-- W --
Wagener
Waltana
Walter Pease

Waltz ®
Wantage
Washed Russet

Wayne
Wealthy
Wellington

Wellington Bloomless Westfield Seek-No-Further
Westland

Wheeler's Golden Russet White Astrachan
White Winter Pearmain

Whitney Crab
Wickson
William's Pride, USPP #6,268

William's Red Willie Sharp Winesap

Winston
Winter Banana
Winterstein

Wismer's Dessert
Wolf River
Worcester Pearmain

Wyken Pippin

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-- X --
Xavier De Bavay
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-- Y --
Yakata Fuji, USPP #7,001
Yarlington Mill
Yellow Bellflower

Yellow Newton Yellow Transparent
Yellow Tremlett's
York
York Imperial

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-- Z --
Zabergau Reinette
Zestar ™ (Minnewashta cv.), USPP #11,367
Zuccalmaglio's Reinette

Flower songs

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Here are 7 flower songs

flower drum song, if you wore a tulip, my wild irish rose. sweet rosie o grady, tiptoe through the tulips, my blossom fell, yellow rose of texas, bicycle built for two

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Patient-Centered Care for People With Dementia

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For people with dementia, establishing an environment that focuses on the individual's strengths, interests, preferences and particular needs will provide the best patient care. Patients with dementia can live at home, in an assisted-living facility or at a nursing home. Wherever they reside, you must concentrate on the individuality of each person who has dementia.

Dementia

Dementia is not a specific disease, but rather a group of symptoms that occur because the dementia person's brain no longer works properly. This person's memory, ability to think clearly, communication skills and behavior are affected by dementia. Because each individual with dementia has particular strengths, interests, and conduct, patient-centered care is essential.

Patient-Centered care

Tom Kitwood and the Bradford Dementia Group in England designed Person-Centered Care in the late 1980s. Patient-Centered Care puts the person first regardless of his level of mental functioning. This type of care takes into account each person's experience of well-being, through the eyes of the person receiving the care. The person living with dementia can experience physical and mental well-being as well as social and even spiritual well-being from this type of care. Many places provide....
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Brain Hub That Links Music, Memory And Emotion Discovered

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This fMRI brain scan shows areas that respond to familiar music (green), salient memories (red), and music that is perceived as enjoyable (blue). The yellow area, in the medial prefrontal cortex, is a response both to music familiarity and salient memory. (Petr Janata/UC Davis)

ScienceDaily — We all know the feeling: a golden oldie comes blaring over the radio and suddenly we're transported back — to a memorable high-school dance, or to that perfect afternoon on the beach with friends. But what is it about music that can evoke such vivid memories?

By mapping the brain activity of a group of subjects while they listened to music, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, now thinks he has the answer: The region of the brain where memories of our past are supported and retrieved also serves as a hub that links familiar music, memories and emotion.

The discovery may help to explain why music can elicit strong responses from people with Alzheimer's disease, said the study's author, Petr Janata, associate professor of psychology at UC Davis' Center for Mind and Brain. The hub is located in the medial prefrontal cortex region — right behind the forehead — and one of the last areas of the brain to atrophy over the course of the disease.

"What seems to happen is that a piece of familiar music serves as a soundtrack for a mental movie that starts playing in our head. It calls back memories of a particular person or place, and you might all of a sudden see that person's face in your mind's eye," Janata said. "Now we can see the association between those two things – the music and the memories."

His study, "The Neural Architecture of Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories," will be published online on Feb. 24 in the journal Cerebral Cortex and will appear in the journal's print version later this year.

Earlier work of Janata's had documented that music serves as a potent trigger for retrieving memories. In order to learn more about the mechanism behind this phenomenon, he enrolled 13 UC Davis students into a new study.

While his subjects listened to excerpts of 30 different tunes through headphones, Janata recorded their brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI. To assure the best chance that students would associate at least some of the tunes with memories from their past, he chose songs randomly from "top 100" charts from years when each subject would have been 8 to 18 years old.

After each excerpt, the student responded to questions about the tune, including whether it was familiar or not, how enjoyable it was, and whether it was associated with any particular incident, episode or memory.

Immediately following the MRI session, students completed a survey about the content and vividness of the memories that each familiar tune had elicited.

The surveys revealed that, on average, a student recognized about 17 of the 30 excerpts, and of these, about 13 were moderately or strongly associated with an autobiographical memory. Moreover, tunes that were linked to the strongest, most salient memories were the ones that evoked the most vivid and emotion-laden responses.

When he took a look at his fMRI images and compared them to these self-reported reactions, Janata discovered that the degree of salience of the memory corresponded to the amount of activity in the upper (dorsal) part of the medial pre-frontal cortex.

While this correlation confirmed Janata's hypothesis that this brain region links music and memory, it was another discovery that sealed his conclusion.

A lifelong music buff, Janata had earlier created a model for "mapping" the tones of a piece of music as it moves from chord to chord and into and out of major and minor keys. By making tonal maps of each musical excerpt and comparing them to their corresponding brain scans, he discovered that the brain was tracking these tonal progressions in the same region as it was experiencing the memories: in the dorsal part of the medial pre-frontal cortex, as well as in regions immediately adjacent to it. And in this case, too, the stronger the autobiographical memory, the greater the "tracking" activity.

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A Discussion for Those with Dementia-Types of Apples

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Aceymac
Adams Pearmain
Adanac

Akane
Akero
Akifu Fuji

Albany Beauty
Alexander
Alfriston

Alkmene
Allington Pippin
Almata

Ambrosia, USPP #10,789
American Summer Pearmain
Ananas Reinette

Anaros Anderson Jonathan
Andre Sauvage
Anna
Antonovka
Api Etoile

Arkansas Black
Arlet
Aroma

Aromatic Russet
Ashmead's Kernel
Astrachan, Red

Aurora Golden Gala®
Austin Apple (Sponsel cv.)
Autumn Gold (Hein cv.), USPP #9,907

Autumn Pearmain

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Bailey Sweet
Baldwin
Ballarat Seedling (Stewart cv.)

Barry
Batmans Tree Battleford
Beacon
Beautiful Arcade
Beauty of Bath

Beauty of Stoke
Bedfordshire Foundling
Belle De Boskoop

Belmac
Belmont
Ben Davis

Benoni Berne Rose
Bess Pool

Beverly Hills
Billie Bound
Bismark

Black Amish
Black Gilliflower
Black Oxford

Blackjon
Blacktwig
Blaze
Blenheim
Blue Pearmain
Blushing Golden

Boiken
Bolero ®
Bonnie Best

Bonza
Bottle Greening
Braeburn

Braestar ® (Brayleet cv.)
Bramley's Seedling
Breakey

Breakwell's
Britemac
Brock

Brown Sweet
Brownlees' Russet
Buckingham

Buff
Bulmer's Norman
Burgundy

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Calville Blanc
Calville Rouge d'Automne
Cameo (Caudle cv.), USPP #9,068

Campfield
Canada Red Canada Reinette

Captain Kidd Cardinal Von Galen
Carlos Queen

Carmeliter Reinette
Carpentin Carroll

Cat's Head Champlain Cheddar Cross

Chehalis
Chenango Strawberry
Cherry Cox

Cherry Pippin Chestnut Crab
Chieftan

Chinook, USPP #10,669, PBR #0386
Chisel Jersey
Cindy Red
Cinnamon Spice
Claygate Pearmain
Cleopatra
Coe Fuji (Ebbourcoe cv.), PPAF
Coe's Golden Drop
Cole's Quince

Colvis Spice Connell Red
Coppertone
Corail (Pinova cv.), USPP #11,601
Cornish Aromatic Cornish Gilliflower

Cort Pendu Plat Cortland
Court Of Wick
Court Pendu Plat
Cox's Orange Pippin
Crawley Beauty

Crème D’licious
Creston, USPP #10,739
Crimson Crisp

Crispin
Criterion
Crofton

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D'Arcy Spice
Dabinett
Dandee Red, PPAF

Davenport Russet Davey
Dayton,USPP #5,584

Delblush, protected in France
Delcon
Delicious

Detroit Red
Devonshire Quarrenden
Discovery

Doctor Dologo Doctor Hogg Doctor Matthews

Dolgo Crab
Dorsett Golden
Double Red Jonathan

Duchess
Dulcet

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Earliblaze
Earlichief Delicious Earligold, USPP #4,820

Early Harvest
Early Joe Early Mcintosh

Early Red Early Strawberry
Early Victoria
Eddie April
Edith Smith Edward VII

Egremont Russet
Ellison's Orange
Elstar

Emperor Alexander Empire
Empress

English Beauty Enterprise (Co Op 30 cv.), USPP #9,193
Epicure

Erwin Bauer
Etter's Gold
Excel Jonagold, USPP #10,314

Exeter Extra Red Gala (Wyles cv.)

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Fall Pippin
Fallawater
Fameuse

Fearns Pippin
Fiesta
Fireside

Firmgold
Five Crown Pippin Florina (Querina cv.)

Fortune
Foxwhelp
Franklin

Frauen Rotacher
Freedom
Freyburg

Fuji
Fuji Lynd Spur (Fuji Spike cv.)
Fukunishiki
Fukutami

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Gala
Gala Supreme
Galarina (Borkh cv.)

Galaxy Gala (Kiddle cv.)
Gano
Garden Royale

Garland
Geeveston Fanny Geneva

George Carpenter
George Cave
Gernes Red Acre

Gideon Gilbert Gold
Gilpin
Ginger Gold (Mountain Cove cv.), USPP #7,063
Gloster
Gold Rush, USPP #9,932

Golden Crab
Golden Delicious
Golden Earl

Golden Haralson
Golden Hervey Golden Noble

Golden Nugget
Golden Pearmain
Golden Pippin
Golden Reinette
Golden Russet
Golden Supreme ®

Golden Sweet
Goodland
Goof

Granny Smith
Gravenstein
Gray Stark
Green Sweet
Greensleeves
Grenadier

Grimes Golden
Grove

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Haas
Hampshire, USPP #8,519
Haralred (Lautz cv.)

Haralson
Harcourt
Hauer Pippin

Hauxapfel
Hawaii
Hawkeye Delicious

Hawley
Hayne's Seedling
Hazen

Henry Clay
Herrings Pippin
Heyer 12

Heyer 20
Hidden Rose Hightop Sweet
Hokuto
Holiday
Holly

Holstein
Honeycrisp,USPP #7,197
Honeygold

Hoople's Antique Gold
Horei Horneburger Pancake

Horse
Howgate Wonder
Hubbardston Nonesuch

Hudson's Golden Gem
Hunt Russet
Hyde King
Hyslop Crab

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Idaho Spur
Idared
Imperial Gala ®, USPP #4,121

Imperial Red Delicious Ingrid Marie
Irish Peach

Itzstedster Apfel

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Jacob's Strawberry
James Grieve
Jefferies

Jerseymac
Jesse Hall Jonafree, USPP #4,633

Jonagold
Jonagored Supra, ®, Jonagold (Morren cv.), USPP #10,401 and/or USPP #5937
Jonalicious

Jonamac
Jonathan
Jonica Jonagold, USPP #7,146

Jonnee Red Jonathan
Jonwin
Jordan Russet

Jubilee
Juliet July Red

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Kandil Sinap
Karin Schneider
Karmijn De Sonneville

Katja
Keepsake
Kent

Kerry Irish Pippin
Keswick Codlin
Kidd's Orange Red

King
King Cole
King David

King of the Pippins
King Of Tompkin's County
King Russet
Kingston Black
Kinsei
Kleinheart (Sponsel cv.)

Knobbed Russet

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Lady
Lady In The Snow Lady Sudeley

Lady Williams Lakeland
Lamb Apple Pearmain

Late Harrison
Lawspur Rome
Laxton's Fortune

Laxton's Superb
Leather Coat
Lehigh Greening
Lemon Pippin
Liberty
Limbertwig

Lindamac
Lobo
Lodi

Lombart's Calville
London Apple (Sponsel cv.)
Lord Lambourne

Lord Nelson Lubsk Queen
Lydia's Red Gala (Hilltop cv.)

Lyman's Large Summer

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Macoun
Macspur
Magiemer
Magnum Bonum
Magnum Gala (Stiekema 1 cv.), USPP #11,182
Mahogany
Maiden's Blush
Maigold
Malinda

Malus Floribunda
Mantent
Margil

McIndoe's Russet McIntosh
McLean

McLellan
McLicious
McShay

Medaille d'Or Melba
Melon

Melrose
Melrouge
Mendocino Cox

Merton Beauty Merton Delight
Merton Russet
Merton's Charm
Milo Gibson
Mio
Miracle Mac
Mollie's Delicious
Moore Sweet

Mother
Mountain Boomer
Moyer's Spice

Muscadet de Dieppe
Muscat de Bernay
Muster
Mutsu

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Nectarapple
Nehou
Newell's Large Winer
Newell's Late Orange
Newtown Pippin
Niagra

Nittany Nonesuch
Norland

Northern Lights
Northern Spy
Northfield Beauty

Northwestern Greening
Nova Easy Gro
Novamac

Novaspy
NuRed Jonathan

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Ohio Nonpareil Old Nonpareil Oliver

Ontario
Opalescent Orange Sweet

Orenco
Orin
Oriole

Orleans Reinette
Ortley Ottawa

Ozark Gold

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Pacific Beauty
Palmer Greening
Park's Pippen

Parkland
Patterson Paula Red (Arends cv.)

Peasgood Nonsuch
Peck's Pleasant
Perrine Transparent
Perry Russet
Pettingill
Pewaukee
Pilot
Pinata
Pine Golden Pippin
Pineapple (Sponsel cv.)
Pink Lady (Cripps cv.), USPP #7,880
Pink Pearl

Pink Pearmain
Pink Princess
Pink Sparkle

Pinova
Pioneer
Pitmaston Pineapple

Pixie Crunch
Plum Crabbie (Sponsel cv.)
Polka ®

Pomme Gris
Pomme Royale Porter


Porter's Perfection
Prairie Spy
Priam

Priestly Prima Prima, USPP #Reissue 28,435
Primate

Primevere Princess
Prinzenapfel
Priscilla, USPP #3,488
Pristine ®, USPP #9881
Pumpkin Sweet

Puritan

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Quebec Bell
Queen Cox
Quinte

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Ralls Genet 'Rall's Janet'
Rambo
Ramsdell Sweet

Raritan
Razor Russet
Red Astrachan

Red Baron
Red Berlepsch
Red Bietigheimer

Red Bouquet Delicious
Red Cortland
Red Delicious

Red Gold
Red Gravenstein
Red Idared

Red June
Red King Red Delicious
Red Prince Red Delicious

Red Rome
Red Royal Limbertwig
Red Spy
Red Wealthy
Red Winesap
Redchief Delicious
Redcort ®
Redfield
Redfree, USPP #4,322

Redmac McIntosh
Redmax, USPP #7,167 Redsleeves

Redspur Red Delicious
Redwell
Regal Gala (Applewaites cv.)

Regent
Reine de Reinette
Reinette de Angleterre
Reinette Gris Du Canada
Reinette Russet
Retina

Reverand Morgan
Revival
Rezista Early Jon-like ®, PPAF
Rezista Gala-like ® (Releika cv.), PPAF Rezista Gold Granny ® (Goldstar cv.), PPAF Rezista Rome-like ® (Rajka cv.)
Rhode Island Greening
Ribston Pippin
Richared

Richelieu
Rocket Red Braeburn, PPAF
Rome
Rome Beauty
Ross Nonpareil Rouville

Roxbury Russet
Royal Court TM
Royal Empire

Royal Gala
Royal Red Delicious
Royal Russet

Rubinette
Rubinola
Runkel

Rusty Coat

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Saint Edmund's Pippin
Salome Sam Young
Sandow
Sansa, USPP #6,519
Sayaka
Scarlet Crofton Scarlet Gala (Creech cv.)
Scarlet O' Haralson (Sponsel cv.)

Scarlet O'Hara (Co op 25 cv.)
Scarlet Pippen
Schmidtberger Reinette

Schweitzer Orange Scifresh (Jazz cv.)
Scotia
Scotian Spur McIntosh, USPP #10,770
Seek-no-further
Seiko-fu Red Fuji

Sekai Ichi
Senator
Senshu

September Wonder Fuji (Fiero cv.), USPP #11,193
Shamrock
Sharon

Shay
Shiawassee
Shinsei

Shizuka
Sierra Beauty
Signe Tillisch

Silken (BC 8S-4-33 cv.), USPP #10740, PBR #95-670
Sinta
Sir Prize, USPP #3,988

Skinner's Seedling
Smokehouse
Smoothee ® Golden Delicious

Snow
Somerset of Maine Sonata, USPP #11,601

Sops of Wine
Spartan
Spencer

Spigold
Spijon
Spitzenburg

Splendour
Sponselli (Sponsel cv.)
Spur Gala (Lynd cv.)

Spur Winter Banana
Spuree Rome
Stark Spur Delicious

Starking Delicious
Starkrimson Red Delicious (Bisbee cv.)
Starks Gala

Starr
State Fair
Staybrite Winesap
Stayman
Stayman Winesap
Stearns

Strawberry Strawberry Chenango
Strawberry Parfait

Strawberry Pippin
Sturdeespur (Miller cv.)
Sturmer
Sturmer Pippin
Sugar Shack (Sponsel cv.)
Summer Mac

Summer Pearmain
Summer Rambo
Summer Rose

Summer Treat
Summer Yellow Summerred
Sun Fuji, R Suncrisp (NJ55 cv.), USPP #8,648
Sundance

Sundown (Cripps II cv.), USPP #8,477
Sunny Brook
Sunrise

Sunset
Suntan
Superchief Spur Red Delicious

Surprise
Sutton Beauty
Swaar

Swayzie
Sweet Alford
Sweet Bough

Sweet Delicious
Sweet Gourmet Sweet Russet
Sweet Sixteen
Sweet Winesap
Swiss Gourmet (Arlet cv.), USPP #6,689

Swiss Limbertwig

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Tallow Pippin
Taylor
Telstar

Thome Empire
Tiger (Sponsel cv.)
Tioga

Tohoku Toko
Tolman Sweet

Tompkin's King
Top Red Red Delicious
Transcendent Crab

Transparent Tremlett's Bitter
Triple E Fuji (Torres cv.) USPP #12,219

Tsugaru
Tumanga
Turley Winesap

Twenty Ounce
Twin Bee Gala Tydeman's Early
Tydeman's Late Orange
Tydeman's Red

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Ultrared Gala (Obrogala cv.)

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Valstar Elstar ®, PPAF
Vanda
Vanderpool Red

Victory
Viking
Virginia Gold
Virginia Greening
Vista Bella

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Wagener
Waltana
Walter Pease

Waltz ®
Wantage
Washed Russet

Wayne
Wealthy
Wellington

Wellington Bloomless Westfield Seek-No-Further
Westland

Wheeler's Golden Russet White Astrachan
White Winter Pearmain

Whitney Crab
Wickson
William's Pride, USPP #6,268

William's Red Willie Sharp Winesap

Winston
Winter Banana
Winterstein

Wismer's Dessert
Wolf River
Worcester Pearmain

Wyken Pippin

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Xavier De Bavay
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Yakata Fuji, USPP #7,001
Yarlington Mill
Yellow Bellflower

Yellow Newton Yellow Transparent
Yellow Tremlett's
York
York Imperial

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Zabergau Reinette
Zestar ™ (Minnewashta cv.), USPP #11,367
Zuccalmaglio's Reinette

“Preventive gerontologist” specializes in preventing memory loss

Activities directors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals,here is an article of interest.

By TONY CASTRO
Los Angeles Daily News

LOS ANGELES | If a picture is worth a thousand words, Arnold Bresky believes a painting is worth a million memories.

Bresky, a physician who calls himself a “preventive gerontologist,” has been using art therapy in working with Alzheimer’s and dementia patients — and he claims a 70 percent success rate in improving their memories.

“I have 96-year-old people who get better,” says Bresky, 69, who said he believed that encouraging Alzheimer’s and dementia patients to draw and paint exercised their brains and turns back the clock on their memory loss.

“I have patients ... learning to draw and paint for the first time in their lives, and their quality of life improves.”

The work of some of those patients recently was on display at City Hall in Los Angeles as part of Brain Health Month, and Councilman Dennis Zine recognized Bresky with a proclamation.

Patients like octogenarian Yolanda Wood of Camarillo, Calif., swear by Bresky’s program, which is covered by Medicare.

“I’ve been a patient of his for years, and I do his art therapy program all the time,” Wood said. “I’m always drawing, and it’s helped me. It’s even helped me pass my driver’s license test.”

Last spring, Wood was notified by the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles that, because of her age, she would have to retake her driving examination.

“I went to Dr. Bresky and I said, ‘Am I going to be able to do this?’ And he said, ‘Of course,’ and we went to work on learning all the driving laws. When I took the test, I made a perfect 100.”

“She’s a better driver now,” said Bresky, “and it’s because of my program.”

Bresky, who gave up his obstetrics practice 12 years ago to work on preventing memory loss, calls his program a “Brain Tune Up,” and includes a multidisciplinary approach that also includes the use of music.

“My program improves the memory function to enhance a person’s quality of life,” he said.

Bresky teaches his program to caregivers and nursing students at California State University, Northridge; Pierce College; and through his book “Brain Tune Up: The Secret for Caregiver Success,” published last year.

At the Sunrise Senior Living facility in Woodland Hills, Calif., Bresky on recently introduced his program to eight residents who had never worked with him before. He got remarkable results in getting them each to draw the face of a person by copying lines and patterns from one sheet of paper to a grid on another sheet.

The results were cubist-like renditions of faces.

By the end of the session, the octogenarian residents of the facility were animated and eager to discuss what they had just done.

“It got me concentrating, and I like that,” Molly Morgan said.

“The more I did this, the more I enjoyed it,” Irene Kowalski said.

The program gets people, especially those who are older and suffering from memory problems, exercising their brains. Bresky said.

“The brain works through numbers and patterns,” he said. “The numbers are on the left side of your brain, the patterns are on the right side. What I’m doing is connecting the two sides.

“And we’re getting the brain to grow new cells. It’s called.........read more of preventing memory loss

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Where To Live As We Age

Activities directors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals,this sounds good in theory. What do you think?
from
Parade

by Susan Fine

Christine Cleary, 91, puts down her crochet work as she happily describes her new residence in Cohoes, a suburb of Albany, N.Y. "It doesn't smell like a nursing home," she says appreciatively. "There's no disinfectant odor." Cleary also enjoys how much quieter it is than most nursing homes--no beeping machines and clattering carts.

Cleary lives with 11 other elderly people in a Green House home, a comfortable residence that offers meals, support, and nursing care at a cost comparable to that of a private room at a large, impersonal home. Each person has his or her own room and bath around a sunny living area with a big dining table that can accommodate all of the residents. An open kitchen allows seniors to put in their two cents about meal preparation, and they have easy access to a garden and patio.

Residential eldercare is a big business today. Nearly 1.4 million seniors live in nursing homes in the United States. But in 18 towns and cities from Birmingham, Ala., to Winthrop, Wash., a new model of care is being tested. While these Green House homes may not soon replace the 16,000 nursing homes in the U.S., they're changing the way our nation cares for its oldest citizens.

Geriatrician Dr. Bill Thomas, a professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, created The Green House Project with the hope of revolutionizing eldercare. In 2001, he wandered into the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation wearing a sweatshirt and Birkenstocks and shared his vision. The foundation was so impressed by his ideas it agreed to support a pilot program. With the foundation's help, Dr. Thomas eventually partnered with NCB Capital Impact, a national nonprofit organization that offers assistance to underserved communities, to roll out a plan. Two years later, the first Green House homes were constructed in Tupelo, Miss.

The success of the Green House model lies in.......read more

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