Monday's New York Times article Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's Deepens provides alarming statistics indicating that increases in diabetes may contribute to the rising toll from Alzheimer's.
Expert Caregiver Carol Bradley Bursack, author of Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories, expert caregiver and journalist Dorian Martin and caregiver expert Lynne Taetzsch, author of The Bipolar Dementia Art Chronicles: How a Manic-Depressive Artist Survives Being the Primary...
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The Alzheimer's Association reports that 200,000 Latinos who live in the United States currently have Alzheimer's disease. By 2050, the... Read more »
Researchers around the world are working feverishly to develop a drug that will prevent or cure Alzheimer's. There's a lot of pressure to... Read more »
Coffee is really, really good for our brains and may prevent Alzheimer’s disease. So says a recent article on eurkalert.org. ... Read more »
Today's Washinton Post describes just how far our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia has come in the last decade. In... Read more »
Tuesday's Washington Post featured an editorial by pharmaceutical giant Wyeth Corps president, executive and chairman Robert Essner, Open the... Read more »
Source: Medifocus Guidebook on: Alzheimer's Disease
An article appeared in 2007 in the journal International Review of Psychiatry (Volume 19, Issue 6:pp. 693-706) which reviewed the current knowledge... Read more »
Research continues to show that these family members spend more time on care and are more stressed than relatives of those with other illnesses. A... Read more »
Experts say many Alzheimer's patients are taking up artistic hobbies such as painting, photography, or music appreciation in an effort to be able to... Read more »