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Signs of Alzheimer’s disease may be present decades before diagnosis - “A team of U.S. scientists report on Monday that people who develop Alzheimer’s disease may show signs of the neurodegenerative illness many decades earlier in life, including compromised educational achievement…” (more)
Physical frailty linked to dementia pathology - “Physical weakness or “frailty” among elderly people […]
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I was asked, in a recent comment on a post, what a daughter should do when her elderly father, who had broken a leg and was in a nursing home, acted like a zombie. That previous post concerned overmedication, with a link from a post by Liz Lewis. I had related an experience with my mom.
Since I’m not trained in […]
Here’s a two part video presented by The Better Part, a program by and for seniors.
Tags: Alzheimer’s patients, Alzheimer’s Research, Alzheimer’s Videos, Alzheimers-disease, caregivers
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UCI Professor of Clinical Family Medicine Dr. Laura Mosqueda talks about Alzheimer’s disease at a lecture hosted at California State University Long Beach.
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Can Alzheimer’s drug halt progress? - “A new drug can slow Alzheimer’s disease progression by up to 80 per cent, according to reports…” (more)
Tracking bracelets protect Alzheimer’s patients - “Westchester County will begin offering radio tracking bracelets to Alzheimer’s patients who tend to wander- a technology, officials say, that might have found a missing 93-year-old […]
I wrote in June about the silver alert system for people with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Here’s Congressman Tom Latham, one of the original co-sponsor of legislation known as the Silver Alert Grant Program Act. Congressman Latham is no stranger to the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease as his own father suffered from it.
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More Doubts On New Alzheimer’s Drug - “In a packed room before thousands of neurologists, Elan and Wyeth presented long-awaited trial results for one of their drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, probably the most watched experimental medicine in the pharmaceutical industry…” (more)
New Tests Could Predict Alzheimer’s - ” New tests promise to detect Alzheimer’s disease before […]
The International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease started on July 26th and will be running until 31 July in Chicago. This annual conference brings together more than 5,000 world-renowned researchers to discuss new knowledge, research, and findings about dementia.
Here’s some of the breaking news that has come out of the conference so far…
Controversy About Lack of […]
It might sound a little strange, but the Alzheimer’s Association is calling on people to ‘host an Alzheimer’s Party’ to watch The Forgetting is an Emmy Award-winning documentary based on David Shenk’s best-selling book.
This documentary will air nationally Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 9:00 pm ET on PBS (local broadcasts may vary).
The idea is that […]
The BBC World News America has put together a series of films that spotlights Alzheimer’s around the world.
Alzheimer’s: A Global Health Emergency airs in four parts on BBC World News America next week from Monday, July 28 to Thursday July, 31. The nightly newscast airs weeknights at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT on BBC AMERICA and BBC […]
Encouraging Alzheimer's caregivers from someone who's been there.
Written by Mary Emma Allen [email], and Liz Lewis, RN for b5media.
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