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Check out Carol Bradley Bursack’s blog and learn how to enter a drawing for her book, Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories. You’ll need to take a survey about caregiving, but it’s easy and quick.
Then your name will be entered into the random drawing for one of ten copies of Carol’s book.
(c)2008 Mary […]
Low Childhood IQ Linked to Type of Dementia - ” Children with lower IQs are more likely decades later to develop vascular dementia than children with high IQs, according to research published in the June 25, 2008, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology…” (more)
Alzheimer’s Drug Shows Early Promise […]
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Something may occur that brings back memories of a special occasion with your Alzheimer’s parent. The announcement of children’s book author/illustrator Tasha Tudor’s death, at age 92, although sad, brought to mind my meeting with her years ago. Mother also was involved in this special day.
Perhaps some of you have her enchantingly illustrated books, have read […]
Second Genetic Risk Factor For Late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease Found - ” Researchers have discovered the second, strong genetic risk factor for developing late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new report in the June 27th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication…” (more)
Gene Variant May Contribute to Alzheimer’s Disease - “Researchers say they’ve discovered […]
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Our first random drawing at Alzheimer’s Notes offers as the prize, Finding the Joy In Alzheimer’s, a book edited by Brenda Avadian and containing two of my essays.
These include: A Child Shows the Way and Generation to Generation.
Simply leave a comment with your name and e-mail and state how you’re connected with Alzheimer’s…caregiver, family member, victim, friend, concerned […]
Second Wind Dreams, a national non-profit organization with a mission to change the perception of aging, one dream at a time, has a Virtual Dementia tour kit. It’s a training tool that provides people with the opportunity to experience how it might feel to have dementia.
Sounds like something everyone who works with dementia […]
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Ever wish you could take a nap during the day, when lack of sleep overwhelms you? Yet you feel guilty if you do. Or your Alzheimer’s patient doesn’t remain napping if you try to catch forty winks at the same time?
Today, if someone else watches your patient or they nap, too, you also can take a “power […]
The scientists at The University of California, San Francisco have teamed up with YouTube in order to create UCSF Aging & Memory Center, a place to medical research.
According to the Press Release…
“The channel is intended to increase awareness among patients, their families — and physicians — about the various forms of dementia, with the […]
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Many Alzheimer’s caregivers are caught in that “Gen Between” situation, with parents they’re responsible for as well as children. Elizabeth at b5media’s Gen Between blog relates her own and other’s experiences.
Gen Between’s parents may or may not have some form of dementia. However, their independence is waning, and the need for care by their children […]
New drug may mitigate Alzheimer’s disease - “A U.S. scientist says he and his German colleagues have created an experimental medicine that might mitigate the effects of Alzheimer’s disease…” (more)
Scientists Isolate a Toxic Key to Alzheimer’s Disease - “Scientists have long questioned whether the abundant amounts of amyloid plaques found in the brains of patients […]
Encouraging Alzheimer's caregivers from someone who's been there.
Written by Mary Emma Allen [email] for b5media.
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