The left hemisphere of the brain processes language (left for language). The right processes signing, rhythm and curse words.
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It is a place where we separate out the wheat from the chafe, the important articles & videos from each week’s river of news. Google gets a new post on Alzheimer’s or dementia every 7 minutes. That can overwhelm anyone looking for help. This site filters out, focuses on and offers only the best information. it has helped hundreds of thousands of people since it debuted in 2007. Thanks to our many subscribers for your supportive feedback.
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Alzheimer’s & Dementia Weekly was inspired by my mother’s journey with autoimmune dementia and my dad’s with Parkinson’s dementia.
Walking beside them opened my eyes to the confusion, the courage, and the deep humanity found in families and professionals caring for someone they love.
Since its debut in 2007, this site has had one clear mission:
to separate the wheat from the chaff — to highlight only the most essential articles, studies, tools, and videos from the overwhelming river of dementia-related information.
(At last count, Google receives a new post on Alzheimer’s or dementia every seven minutes.) For anyone seeking clarity or support, that constant flow can be exhausting and discouraging.
Alzheimer’s Weekly filters, translates, and explains what matters most, helping hundreds of thousands of families, clinicians, and care teams around the world make sense of the latest research and best practices.
This site is dedicated to everyone who works—often quietly and tirelessly—to preserve dignity in the community of people living with dementia.
With experience in dementia caregiving, public education, and Alzheimer’s-focused writing—and a professional research background shaped in what many consider one of the world’s top laboratories—I work to make complex findings clear, practical, and genuinely helpful for both families and professionals providing care.
My goal is simple:
Translate the best science into guidance that lightens the load, strengthens understanding, and helps every person with dementia live with dignity.
Peter Berger
Editor, Alzheimer’s Weekly
If you are looking for a respite service find an excellent adult day and health care Center.
You can not expect to handle all the caregiving alone. It is not a one person job! Contact your local Visiting Nurse Association, and ask your gerontologist to refer you to respite care and other local options. You are no good to your husband if you are ill, so you must put some priority on yourself, no matter how daunting that may seem at first. Also try agingcare.com, and any more Teepa Snow videos you can find.
My husband has Lewy Body dementia. The neurologist says he is in the advance stage and has had this for years before we knew. He had a stroke a few years ago and that is when they discovered this. I am trying to care for him myself at home but, at times this is getting harder to do. There will be good days that he stays calm but, still demands my attention 24/7 and then days he is trying to get anything he can find and hide it so he can take it with him, where ever he thinks he is going? I have put on high blood pressure medicine in the last few months from dealing with the stress and he got those pills the other day and was going to call the police and have me arrested for being on drugs? He is 76 and I am 70 we have been married for 52 yrs. I am getting to the point of understanding why the caregiver dies first, it is hard to see the later years of your life just be destroyed. I have a alarm system that tells me when a outside door is opened because, last week he went out the back and walked down the street to our insurance agents house and told them I had kicked him out and to take him to his daughters house. Of course, they called me first and then I called our daughter to go get him and bring him home. I am at a lose of what to do?
I love this woman… she is helping me n my 25 yr old son care for Momma/grandma … she has vascular dementia …. Momma has broke down 3 times in tears causing me to cry.. Hope one day to meet her in person…..
An amazing lesson I was taught. And what is more amazing, I understood every thing.
Utterly brilliant. I think I love this woman.
There is a communication tool I'm just now learning called Clean Language…my 'take' on it is that it's as close to totally reflective (like a mirror) and remarkably respectful of the person communicating…no interpretation, correction, analysis…raw reflective respectful Listening. Sans 'my' fears, hangups, 'knowing' what something 'means.' I am NOT the holder of the meaning of those words and gestures coming from someone else…practicing being within that framework is hard, relieving, and reveals worlds way beyond what I could (and possibly THEY could consciously) imagine.
THis is a very good illustration of how the disease progresses. My husband no longer can
speak and I miss hearing his voice.
He is currently in his 13th year of his journey.
My mom can only speak in single words. Usually the words are jumbled. I decided I would talk to her as if she was hard of hearing. I spoke slow, loud and used only a couple words. I also looked right at her. It was amazing!!! She seemed to understand me. She also responded to me although in a couple real words! We had a lovely visit and she laughed a lot with me, sometimes at me. I don't know if my new approach helped her or if she was just having a good day I will do the same thing next time to see if it works again. I sure hope so.