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New “Purple Alert” is a free app designed to help communities rescue people from wandering with dementia. Over 60% of people with dementia wander dangerously at some point, lost and on their own. See Purple Alert use the power of community to assist in keeping them safe.
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Nanodevices are the newest weapon in medicine’s growing arsenal to fight Alzheimer’s. They capture dangerous peptides before they can assemble to form Alzheimer’s plaques in the brain.
THE TODAY SHOW takes a look at Julianne Moore’s performance as Alice, a middle-aged woman diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The movie has already earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Alice Howland is happily married with 3 grown children and a house on the Cape. She is a celebrated Ivy League professor when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self slips. In turns heartbreaking and inspiring, “Still Alice” captures in remarkable detail what’s it’s like to live with Alzheimer’s.
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An Alzheimer’s diagnosis is hard to get and hard to give. Watch Doctor Chodosh approach this difficult challenge with skilled experience and deep compassion.
This site was inspired by my Mom’s autoimmune dementia.
It is a place where we separate out the wheat from the chaffe, the important articles & videos from each week’s river of news. With a new post on Alzheimer’s or dementia appearing on the internet every 7 minutes, the site’s focus on the best information has been a help to many over the past 15 years. Thanks to our many subscribers for your supportive feedback.
The site is dedicated to all those preserving the dignity of the community of people living with dementia.
Peter Berger, Editor
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good morning, I am a Registered nurse and was unable to find this app in Australia, could you please suggest another link or when it will be available in Australia please
I didn’t see this app available in the US will it be coming to this country or is their something similar available here?