Mind Matters: A Podcast Produced by the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging

Dr. Shannon Macauley joins the podcast in honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Kentucky and recently joined the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging as an affiliate faculty member.

For more information about Dr. Macauley and her work, visit https://www.macauleylab.com/. Follow her on X at @macauleylab.  For more information about the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, visit us at ⁠https://medicine.uky.edu/centers/sbcoa.

Dr. Alaine Reschke-Hernandez joins the podcast to discuss her passion of music therapy and its effect on those with dementia. She is an assistant professor of music therapy at the UK College of Fine Arts and recently joined the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging as an affiliate faculty member.  

For more information about Dr. Reschke-Hernandez

Dr. Brian Gold, PhD joins the podcast to discuss cognitive reserve and lifestyle factors as they pertain to neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Gold is the director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging lab and a Professor in

In honor of National Family Caregiver Month and to honor the 157,000 unpaid Kentucky caregivers, Sarah Hatch joins the podcast. We talk about the needs of caregivers and how the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging can help!

Resources to Assist:

https://medicine.uky.edu/centers/sbcoa/how-can-we-help

https://dementiacaregiver.createuky.net/

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging 859-323-5550.

The Memory Cafe is 12 years old and we are celebrating! The UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging partners with the Alzheimer's Association each month to provide this social engagment program, where individuals with memory loss AND their loved ones gather for a time of togetherness, connection, and FUN! Special guests for this podcast include Sarah Hatch, MSW, CSW of SBCoA, Meredith Plant of the Alzheimer's Association, Ted & Gail Fraebel who are living with memory loss, and their care partner, Wendy Trivisonno.

To register or learn more about the Memory Cafe in Lexington, Kentucky, please call Sarah at 859-323-5550 or Meredith at 800-272-3900. For help with organizing a Memory Cafe in your area, contact the Alzheimer's Association at 800-272-3900.

October is Down Syndrome Month. People with Down Syndrome are living longer. The age at which they develop Alzheimer's disease is much younger than the general population. In this episode, we talk with researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging about their work with people with Down Syndrome and the hope this work brings! Special guests include Fred Schmitt, PhD, Jordan Harp, PhD, Amanda Glueck, PhD, Raven McCree, and Roberta Davis.

To find out more:

Alzheimer's Biomarker Consortium- Down Syndrome ⁠https://abc-ds.org/⁠

Fall 2021 Mind Matters Magazine link-  Probing the Connections Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Down Syndrome, Page 14

⁠https://medicine.uky.edu/centers/sbcoa/mind-matters-magazine⁠

For questions about Down Syndrome research or the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, reach out to Roberta Davis at 859-218-3865.

In this episode, Dr. Lance Johnson of the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging shares about his research on genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, and how modifying genetics may play an important role in risk reduction. For more information about the work Lance Johnson and his team are doing, visit http://www.ljohnsonlab.com/. To find out how you can get involved in research at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, visit us at https://medicine.uky.edu/centers/sbcoa/clinical-trials.