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LATEST ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH NEWS YOU CAN USE

Expert reviewed Alzheimer’s and Dementia News

Year: 2011

Endurance
If you’re on pins and needles because of worry, stop it! You will always question yourself. Caregivers will always panic…
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Keeping the Hall-Decking Simple
About managing holiday confusion… I’m not much of a natural when it comes to hosting holiday meals. Nor did I…
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Some Tips to Help Celebrate the Holidays
One of the best ideas I ever heard for helping caregivers was from Denise Brown (the creator of the web…
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Dementia and Christmas
A thought about Dementia at Christmas…
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Hear My Voice
Will someone please hear my voice? I have dementia, though not by choice, My days and nights pass me by,…
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The Role of Children in Alzheimer’s Care
A caregiver’s age can vary from a 12-year-old to someone in their nineties. Many families welcome parents and grandparents with…
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Needed: An Rx for Quandary
Alzheimer’s caregivers have a very conflicted relationship with medications. I cannot, offhand, think of another branch of pharmaceutical science where…
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The Inbetweener’s
As I sit here and write this, the waves of guilt are washing over me like a tidal flood. Sometimes…
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Where Does Memory Live?
My dad often said, “Karen is just like a duck. Every day she wakes up, it’s a brand new world.”…
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I have Alzheimers, there is no cure, i am dying, FACT!!
Hello, I am sorry if that opening title upsets anybody but do tend to see things as they really are,…
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Mixing Metaphors, Ionically Speaking
Obtaining an Alzheimer’s diagnosis can be a long and winding road. Ours sure was. Come to think of it, I…
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The Raven and the Writing Desk
The Importance of Category Sort Exercises for People Living with Alzheimer’s We walked into the Alzheimer’s unit after our lunch…
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When it comes time to move a parent into your home
As we age most of us usually find it hard to admit that now we may need help from others.…
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The Murky Spyglass, or: Can “After” start Now?
At some point in the Alzheimer’s spousing game you have to figure out a way to start worming your way…
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Battling the Denial of Alzheimer’s
I believe one of the more frustrating and downhearted things that caregivers endure while caring for Alzheimer’s sufferers comes from…
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Never Give Up on Anyone!
We have learned over the years to look for the strengths and spared abilities in people living with Alzheimer’s. One…
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Separation Anxiety
I am, in fact, sitting in Atlanta Bread. I didn’t think this would end up being the case when my…
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Priming the Pump of Memory
There are ways to help prime the pump of memory using techniques that we have pioneered to help people find…
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Telephones and Alzheimer’s
Commencing from my dad’s earliest onset of Alzheimer’s, it became obvious that answering the telephone was going to become an…
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Keeping it Normal
It was in Jeff’s old workplace, the family hardware business, that I ran into a long-time almost-friend. (One of those…
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Always smiling as usual
Diagnosed with young onset Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 50 Norman thought his world had come to an end.…
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But Who Knows Where or When?
Did you know that there are different memory systems at work in our brains?  One of those systems is the…
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Are you an Alzheimer Spouse?
You might remember a time when you’d wake up in the morning and say “aah…” The day was looking pretty…
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Book Review of my new book “Silent Voices”
Book Review of my new book “Silent Voices” By International Award winning Author “Stan Goldberg” Those of us who deal…
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