Long-distance caregiving of aging relatives is high-anxiety
If people suspect dementia is encroaching on aging parents' lives, a good first step is arranging a medical evaluation. “The children need to know what they're up against,” said Anne Spaller, clinical consultant for Del Oro Caregiver Resource Center …
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Free Dementia And Alzheimer's Care Workshop With Teepa Snow
Nationally renowned dementia care expert, Teepa Snow, turns an auditorium into an active environment where she engages the audience in real-life scenarios, giving them hands-on Do's and Don'ts of caring for a loved one with dementia and Alzheimer's.
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Alzheimer hypothesis stuck in intellectual cul-de-sac
So, in living, breathing humans, the clinical disorder of dementia decouples from the disease state of fibrillar amyloid plaques. These results also raise a deeply troublesome issue for basic scientists and those in the drug business. Mice models of …
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Living with Lewy Body Dementia: Better day
Today was much better all round and I was very surprised when the builders turned up at the house this morning to start stripping the walls and floors out.
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Staffordshire Alzheimer's and dementia service described chaotic
A service aimed at diagnosing people with Alzheimer's and dementia in South Staffordshire has been criticised in a new report which described it as “chaotic”. Health and social services watchdog Staffordshire LINk carried out a review of the Memory …
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Dementia a national health priority
Alzheimers New Zealand welcomes the news that the Australian Commonwealth Government has made dementia a national health priority. This commitment from the Australian government shows how other governments are stepping up and taking action to …
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