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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.
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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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
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Don’t worry about whether or not your loved one (or the person for whom you are caring) is getting everything right. Handle the “realities” that are necessary for care.
Patience is absolutely important to an Alzheimer’s or dementia person. Talking to them as if they’re a baby will cause them to digress— so don’t do it! Yelling or raising your voice in frustration or repeating the same phrase in the same way is not going to help.
Look that precious person in the eye, find a new way to say the same thought if they’re not grasping what you’re saying, and be patient, even when you’re in a hurry—remember that this human being has a brain that does contain memories (even if they cannot produce them,) does have feelings (even if they cannot express them or express the wrong ones at the wrong times,) and does desire to be treated like the adult that they are.
I know someone who took over the care of their mother and kept saying to her that she was her precious baby— her three-year-old. That dear woman went from being able to communicate with others to being completely nonverbal in about a month. Never, ever disrespect an adult in that manner!