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Seven Tips to Alzheimer's-Proof Your Home When an Alzheimer's patient moves into a home many considerations and adjustments must be made to ensure their safety and security. Follow these tips to keep your home safe.
10 Signs of Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's is a serious degenerative brain disease that affects memory, reasoning and general thinking skills. Here are the signs to look for to identiy this condition.
Five Easy Tricks to Keep Your Brain Young
Losing your memory entirely as you age does not have to be a foregone conclusion. Follow these tips to keep your brain sharp and stave off dementia as you age.
Choosing a Nursing Home: 10 Considerations
10 Things to Do After an Alzheimer's Diagnosis
A loved one has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. What now? Here are 10 ways to cope with a recent Alzheimer's diagnosis and prepare for living with and taking care of people with Alzheimer's.
Seven Facts You Should Know About Alzheimer's Disease
7 Great Gifts for Caregivers
How to Die Organized: Ten Tips
The death of a loved one is an emotionally taxing time. Much of the stress can be taken out of the immediate aftermath if the loved one's wishes are explicitly spelled out well in advance. A little prior planning and open communication can ease much of the burden off the surviving family so that healing can begin.
What We Learned This Week: September 7th, 2012
Enjoy HealthCentral's pick of the five most interesting, thrilling, frightening and amusing health stories we found this week.
What We Learned This Week: September 14th, 2012
Enjoy HealthCentral's picks of five interesting, thrilling, frightening and amusing health stories we found this week.
Five ways Alzheimer's affects women more than men Women shoulder a disproportionate burden of the devastating effects of Alzheimer's disease, both as patient and caregiver.
What We Learned This Week: October 26th, 2012
Check out five interesting, thrilling, frightening and amusing health stories we found this week.
What We Learned This Week: December 7th, 2012 Enjoy HealthCentral's picks of five interesting, thrilling, frightening and amusing health stories we found this week.
What We Learned This Week: December 14th, 2012 Enjoy our picks of five interesting, thrilling, frightening and amusing health stories we found this week.
10 Ways to Protect Your Brain Against Alzheimer’s Alzheimer's is becoming more and more common. But there are ways to protect your brain now.
10 Surprising Things That Influence the Brain There’s no question that the brain is a profoundly complex organ that is shaped by all kinds of external circumstances and behaviors. But some are not what you’d expect.
The History of Alzheimer’s Disease
All diseases have a history. When did Alzheimer’s disease catch the attention of scientists and doctors? And where is research headed today?
10 Questions About Alzheimer’s Here are questions HealthCentral visitors have asked about Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, along with my answers.
12 Ways to Slow Mental Decline As Americans live longer, more of them have growing concerns about their cognitive decline as they age. And the truth is, there are no magic cures. But recent research has determined that there are steps a person can take that may help slow down the process. Here are 12 of them: