An education in Alzheimer’s disease usually begins in one place: The Alzheimer’s Association. I’ve done a fair amount of educating to both individuals and groups about the Alzheimer’s disease process. I have found one little gem to be the ...
Read More »The Banner Alzheimer’s Institute: Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative
I think it is important to talk about Alzheimer’s prevention, especially the scientific, blue sky initiatives that offer more realistic hope than the latest off-the-shelf-cure-all ingredient. I had the opportunity to listen in to The Banner Institute’s Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative ...
Read More »Get Some Sleep!
Heed this, Caregivers, living your 36 hour day. *** Everybody knows that there just aren’t enough hours in the day, and sometimes sleep seems like a time consuming nuisance. But research has shown there are lots of health ailments related ...
Read More »Amyloid… Friend or Foe?
There is a longstanding hypothesis in research that beta amyloid- a build up of abnormally folded proteins- is responsible for Alzheimer’s disease. The theory is that a build up of amyloid blocks the flow of nutrients in and out ...
Read More »The Importance of Routines
Are you a “sock-shoe-sock-shoe” or a “sock-sock-shoe-shoe”? We all have our own routines- our own patterns for completing tasks in our day. Dementia alters the ability to learn new routines or recover from a deviation in a routine. When early ...
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