Ep 10: Why You Should Try “Smell Training”: The Sensory Side of Dementia Explained

🧠 Have you ever heard of smell training? Well, if you want a new tool in your arsenal to stave off dementia - you might want to get sniffing! Your sense of smell is more closely connected to your brain health than you realise - and protecting it is crucial.

⚡As we’ve discovered in this series, dementia affects more than just your memory - it’s a full-body, sensory experience. And in this episode we explain exactly what that means. Not only do we tackle smell, but we learn how the other senses are impacted too - including touch, vision and hearing.

💡 In this episode of The Dementia Perspective you will learn:

➡︎ How to do “smell training” and why smell loss is so closely linked to brain health

➡︎ How dementia can distort a person’s vision

➡︎ Why attention is such an important element of brain health

👥 With thanks to guests Professor Thomas Hummel and Professor Andrea Tales

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