For those of you crossword puzzle junkies out there… those of you who love your daily JUMBLE in the newspaper… those who spend big bucks on computerized brain games like Luminosity… I commend your commitment to brain health, although the ...

Sound Familiar? You are 50 years old and struggling with things that have always been easy.  You are pretty good at hiding your memory slip-ups: the names you can’t remember, the meeting action items you never followed through on, the ...

*** Depending on what you read, the risk of developing Alzheimer’s in the United States and other wealthy Western countries is declining.  However, due to the growing older adult population, the number of people living with Alzheimer’s is expected to ...

… Nobody likes hypotheticals, especially the real-life kind that play out beyond the laboratory microscopes and petri dishes. And I hate to be a Debbie-Downer, but after billions of dollars and hundreds of single-therapeutic drug failures, at some point you’ve ...

I know a sweet woman who is wheelchair bound and has a full-time, live-in caregiver.  The caregiver is pleasant, and competent, and fulfills her duties very efficiently.  But she’s not big on engagement.  The woman, Daisy, sits most of the ...