Newer blood tests accurately predict Alzheimer’s. This opens the door to earlier detection and treatment. Be cautious: only taking these tests with guidance from a medical expert.
Replacing one serving per day of processed red meat with fish was associated with a 28% lower risk of dementia. Learn how.
Watch Teepa show ways of approaching people with Alzheimer’s. Teepa is the best of all the recognized experts on caring for dementia patients.
FILL A MEMORY BOX with photos and memorabilia of a person with dementia, then position it by their door. See it re-orient them, trigger conversations, make a doorway one’s own, and mostly, stimulate memories of good times.
This week in the USA: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
LAW & MONEY: Get ahead of the legal & financial challenges of Alzheimer’s. This Fact Sheet is a great place to start.
TECH VIDEO: See how video messages break through Alzheimer’s morning fog. Learn why they perk up people with dementia. Watch this pilot program in action.
WATCH FIREFIGHTERS learn how it feels to have dementia and rescue people with Alzheimer’s in an emergency crisis.
DIET VIDEO:
Why the big rise in Alzheimer’s? That is one of today’s great medical mysteries.
See a provocative theory about copper & Alzheimer’s in The Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
If you couldn’t see your mashed potatoes, you probably wouldn’t eat them. That’s why what “The Red Plate Study” found was astonishing! Alzheimer’s patients eating from red plates consumed 25 percent more food than those eating from white plates. Find out why.
When I was young,
I used to admire intelligent people.
As I grow older, I admire kind people.
We think we are most free when we don’t need anybody. Exactly what Alzheimer’s represents is absolute dependency. That’s what we all need to learn:
See one of the largest and most comprehensive studies identifying where dementia occurs most often.
SHORT-TERM MEMORY lapses are obvious signs of Alzheimer’s, but other tell-tale signals begin to show much earlier. Learn how to look for semantic impairments, such as simple questions about size.
Three important dementia studies focus on HS-AGING, a type of dementia almost as common as Alzheimer’s in the 85+ group. Yet few people have heard of it. Why? What makes it different?
An intriguing study of 120 grandmothers might surprise you. Doctors know socially engaged people have better cognition and less dementia. But can a person get too much of a good thing? What’s the right balance?
Enjoy this great duet between a musician with dementia and his son. A triumph of spirit over Alzheimer’s! Sing-a-long if you like!
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