News – Tagged "Smell Training" – The Scent Guru Group

Just Published: A Celeb Scent Designer Brings Smell Therapy To Dementia Care - Being Patient

by Ruth Heagney March 18, 2022

I am hoping a bit of the luck of the Irish in my bloodline will allow me to go back to Assisted Living Communities for Memory Care and start giving Essential Awakenings® Smell & Memory Sessions again! A link (below) to yesterday's article in being patient (a newsletter dedicated to the latest news on Alzheimer's disease and brain health) was based on an interview 2 weeks ago includes a video from February 2020 that brings back fond memories of the seniors who attended the Essential Awakenings® sessions. The article includes a personal statement about how I felt leaving these sessions and how I felt like I had been to my own therapy, because I realized how happy they were, and that they were sharing their own personal stories with each other. Here is the article from Deborah Kan's newsletter, being patient: https://www.beingpatient.com/smell-training-for-dementia/?utm_source=Being+Patient+Newsletter&utm_campaign=667c95c16b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_11_06_03_59_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_95b92454c1-667c95c16b-220502033 For those of you who have elderly parents living with dementia, Alzheimer's or have diminished sense of smell, you may want to experience the Essential Awakenings® Sensory Kits for some Scent Therapy--whether it's for your memory care residents, for individual smell training, as a unique fun family guessing game (clue cards included), or even as prompts to help guide storytelling to your children, grandchildren or students. If you choose to purchase a kit, please write to me and I will give you a private code to use for a 20% discount.

Posted in activities for seniors, Alzheimers, Being Patient Newsletter, Deborah Kan, dementia, Essential Awakenings®, memory care, memoryrecall, sense of smell, sensory kits, smell and memory, smell training

Leave a comment

Essential Awakenings® and How "Humanity Vs. Vanity" Was My Guide

by Ruth Heagney October 19, 2021

This is where my motto “Humanity Vs. Vanity” came into mind, because I wanted to develop a tool that would have a positive effect on as many humans as possible—not only in the US, but worldwide, and from the very beginning of that Aha! moment, I kept these three words in mind as I worked through a very intense development process.

Posted in Alzheimers, Alzheimers Association Wellness Retreat, anosmia, Aroma Therapy, Assisted Living Communities, Atria Senior Living, Baby Powder, Benchmark Senior Living, Clairol, Coty, dementia, Dial Soap, Dr. Rachel Herz, Essential Awakenings®, fresh cut grass, gerontology, Hebrew Home At Riverdale, Humanity vs Vanity, InnovateHER, Irish Spring, libraries, neuroscience, Occupational Therapists, Orlandi, Pratt Institute, Program Directors, psychology, RiverSpring Health, Senior Centers, sense of smell, sensory kit, Shopify, Smell Training, social activities, socialization, Tadashi Shoji, that Aha! moment, The Greens At Greenwich, The Scent Guru Group, Tide Detergent, wellbeing

How Smell Training Can Help Reactivate the Sense Of Smell

by Ruth Heagney April 10, 2021

The word anosmia was virtually unknown amongst the general population until last year when COVID-19 arrived on our front doorsteps and took over world news. So what is anosmia? Anosmia, is a complete loss of sense of smell, and is often caused by an illness or head trauma.

Posted in anosmia, Chris Tillett, COVID-19, Dr. Rachel Herz, Essential Awakenings®, Lost sense of smell, mindful smelling, olfactory bulb, parosmia, scent molecules, smell and emotion, Smell and Memory, Smell and Memory Kits, Smell and Memory Sessions, Smell and Memory Tool Kit, Smell Training, Smell Training Gude

How Essential Awakenings® Activities Can Help Keep Seniors Stay Connected

by Ruth Heagney January 28, 2021

This blog discusses the various ways Essential Awakenings® Smell & Memory Activities and Kits can help enhance the lives of seniors living with dementia: As a vehicle for storytelling, socialization, connectivity and communication. Plus, how the awareness of the sense of smell can save your life.

Posted in activities for seniors, Aging Life Care Journal, Assisted Living Communities, Charles Nielsen, communication, COVID-19, Essential Awakenings®, Fight-or-Flight, History.com, how the sense of smell can save your life, how the sense of smell saved his life, La Marseillaise, Memory Care, Memory Recall, MI Blue Perspectives, Quora, River House Senior Day Center, Ruth Sutcliffe, Scent And Wellbeing With Ruth Sutcliffe, Scentguru, Senior Centers, sense of smell, Smell and Memory Kits, Smell and Memory Sessions, Smell Training, Smell Training Gude, socialization, storytelling, storytelling techniques, Survival Instinct, The Greens At Greenwich, The Scent Guru Group, The smell of fish, The smell of garlic, Timothy Huff, Vietnam, Vietnam Vet, WHO

Hello 2021: Smell Training, Homeschooling and Mindfulness

by Ruth Heagney January 03, 2021

Because of COVID-19, the world has learned more about the sense of smell and its importance to emotional wellbeing. As Dr. Rachel Herz states in The Scent Guru Group’s Smell Training Guide, “most fundamentally, our sense of smell gives us a sense of our self, our feel of connectedness with others, and is a central component to the overall quality of our life.”

Posted in anosmia, Assisted Living Communities, Brandon Hill, CDC, Cody Brand, COVID-19, Cristina Young, Dementia, Dr. Rachel Herz, Essential Awakenings®, multi sensory, NIH, Nursing Homes, Occupational Therapists, Otolaryngologist, quality of life, rhinologists, Sense of Smell, sensory activities, sensory experiences, sensory kit, sensory stimulation, Smell and Memory, Smell Training, Smell Training Guide, Speech Therapists, testimonials, The Scent Guru Group, wellbeing

Road Trip To The Heartland Of America During The Pandemic- Part 3

by Ruth Heagney November 19, 2020

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1857

Posted in Abraham Lincoln, anosmia, aromachology, Atria Senior Living, BikeAround, COVID Testing, COVID-19, dementia, Dr. Rachel Herz, Essential Awakenings®, Gettysburg Address, innovation, La Marseillaise, Marriott BonVoy, Memory Care, MindScent®, Road Trip, scent diffusion, Smell and Memory Kits, Smell Training, Smell Training Guide, The Thrive Center, Walgreens