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Alzheimer's And Dementia Weekly

Support & Insight for the Autumn of Life

Weekly Quotes

The lincoln Memorial: "And in the end, It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." (Abraham Lincoln)

Thought of the Week: Lincoln & Life

February 17, 2025 1 Comment

And in the end,
It’s not the years in your life that count.
It’s the life in your years.
(Abraham Lincoln)

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible. (Tia Walker, Author)

Thought of the Week: Lean into Love

February 15, 2025 No Comments

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible.

The Simple Act of Caring is Heroic (by Edward Albert, actor. Courtesy HomeHelpers (R) )

Thought of the Week: Heroic

February 8, 2025 1 Comment

The simple act of caring is heroic.

Holding the hands of a person with dementia

Thought of the Week: I’m With You in This

February 1, 2025 1 Comment

There is a moral task of caregiving, And that involves just being there… (Posters)

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Thought of the Week: Courage Is

January 27, 2025 No Comments

Courage is being afraid,But going on anyhow.

Lady's hand holding elder's hand. This is what it takes to be an Alzheimer's Caregiver.

What It Take to be an Alzheimer’s Caregiver

January 25, 2025 1 Comment

This is what it takes To be an Alzheimer’s caregiver.

Martin Luther King: "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?"

A Thought on Martin Luther King Day

January 16, 2025 No Comments

This week in the USA: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Alzheimer's: So many memories stolen, so many hearts broken. We need a cure!

Alzheimer’s… We need a cure.

January 9, 2025 3 Comments

Alzheimer’s… So many memories stolen, So many hearts broken… We need a cure. Share this photo to show your support.

All I want is for you to forever remember me as loving you.

Thought of the Week: Loving You

January 5, 2025 2 Comments

All I want is for youTo forever remember me as loving you. …Click for Pillow, T-shirts, Cards…

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed on a weary world. (William Shakespeare)

Thought of the Week: That Little Candle

December 30, 2024 No Comments

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed on a weary world. William Shakespeare

The three things we crave most - happiness, freedom & peace of mind - are attained by giving them to someone else.

Thought of the Week: Peace of Mind

August 24, 2025

Successful Bathing with Dementia

August 22, 2025

Refusal to bathe is common in people with dementia. Here are a dozen simple techniques to make bathing easier.

Telling L.A.T.E. Dementia & Alzheimer’s Apart

August 20, 2025

L.A.T.E.-Dementia is under-recognized, with a health impact as large as Alzheimer’s in very old people. It affects 25% of people over 85 and has nothing to do with the plaques and tangles that cause Alzheimer’s.

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Big Cup, Little Man: Picking Up the Earliest Signs of Alzheimer’s

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.

85 with Dementia? Good Chance It’s HS-AGING, Not Alzheimer’s

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?

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A Grandchild for One Day Keeps Dementia Away

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?