1. Missing? The Strongest link! Gloucestershire Training & Education strategy

2. Welcome - join in some fun learning! The quiz consists of 12 questions... You have 10 minutes to complete your answers..... The correct answers some with additional information are posted at the end.... How did you do..............

3. (Q1) What was Dr Alzheimer's first name?

4. (Q2) What is this Lobe of the Brain called?

5. (Q3) Which one of the following bands are supporting the Alzheimer's society with downloads of their new album. (a) Arctic Monkeys (b)Kaiser Chiefs (c)Franz Ferdinand

6. (Q4) Which national flower is being grown to use in the future treatment of Alzheimer's Disease?

7. ( Q5) Well known characters from long running soaps have given moving portrayals of living with dementia.. - Mike Baldwin in Coronation Street. - Jack Woolley in the Archers. Which East End character played by Edna Dore made a last on screen appearance 29 th November 1990?

8. (Q6) What perceptive high street test could be introduced in the future to screen for Alzheimer's Disease?

9. (Q7) Name the 5 psychological needs represented in Kitwoods flower?

10. (Q8) According to the Alzheimer's society, how many people under the age of 65 in the UK today are thought to have dementia? a) Over 15 000 b) Over 5 000 c) Over 10 000

11. (Q9) Which system in the brain is thought to be responsible for emotions and smell?

12. (Q10) The memoir “Elegy for Iris,” tells the tender & extraordinary story of novelist Iris Murdoch & her husband John Bayley from their meeting in 1950s Oxford to her life with Alzheimer’s Disease. In the film adaptation “Iris” - Which actor portrayed husband John?

13. (Q11) Who of the following are known to have been diagnosed with a form of dementia ? Ronald Reagan Charlton Heston Sugar Ray Robinson Peter Falk James “Scotty” Doohan Rita Heyworth Glen Campbell

14. (Q12) This abnormal structure found in the brain has given it’s name to a type of dementia – What is it?

15. ANSWERS....... Q1 Alois Q2 Parietal Q3 Kaiser Chiefs Q4 The Daffodil Q5 Mo Butcher Q6 Opticians Q7 Attachment, comfort, inclusion, occupation & Identity Q8 a) Q9 The limbic system Q10 Jim Broadbent Q11 All of them Q12 A Lewy body

16. Daffodils contain Galantamine. Worth pound for pound as much as gold Galatamine has the potential to slow the progress of moderate Alzhiemer’s disease. Previously only extracted from wild snow drops in the Balkans there are now 60 acres of Daffodils being grown for Galantamine in Powys, Mid Wales. The Daffodil

17. Mo Butcher Frank Butcher’s Mum

18. Opticians Scientists at University College London believe neurological damage could be detected by peering into a patient’s eye. Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease result in the death of retinal cells. The UCL team found a way of detecting whether these cells have died or not by attaching fluorescent markers to them. Alzheimer's is known to affect eyesight, and 60 per cent of sufferers have impaired vision Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/809097-new-eye- test-could-detect-alzheimer-s#ixzz1OsKvG7QEhttp://www.metro.co.uk/news/809097-new-eye- test-could-detect-alzheimer-s#ixzz1OsKvG7QE

19. The Limbic System Our sense of smell (olfactory cortex) is embedded within the brains Limbic system where emotions are born & emotional memories stored. That’s why smells, feelings & memories become so closely entangled. Smell memory is long & resilient & the earliest odour associations we make often stick.