As Hurricane Florence barreled toward her coastal community, Patty Younts grappled with a question: Where should a person with dementia go? Her husband, Howard,…
Dementia causes memory loss and deteriorates the ability to carry out everyday tasks over time, but sometimes the most distressing thing to experience is…
Inside your brain, there are 100 billion cells carrying out the daily tasks of keeping you alive and feeding you information: transmitting messages from…
Air pollution is on the rise, and there’s no question that it’s bad for your respiratory system. Scientists have linked pollution to around 9…
We know that obesity is linked to increased dementia risk—but what about being ‘skinny fat’? We talk to Dr. James Galvin, associate dean for clinical research at the Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine, about what he’s discovered in a recent study of over 300 people.
In an intervention-related win for Alzheimer’s prevention, researchers at the University of South Florida have found that computerized brain-training games lowered the risk for…
By Emily Woodruff What’s worse than finding out your loved one has Alzheimer’s? Getting an Alzheimer’s diagnosis yourself. And the stigma and social isolation…
By Emily Woodruff Why do some people develop dementia, when others live well into old age without memory problems? While scientists are still figuring…
Could the MIND Diet—heavy on vegetables and whole grains and moderate on fish, poultry and wine—prevent your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease? Scientists who…
The Alzheimer’s clinical trial success rate isn’t pretty: A 99.6 percent failure rate means there are only four approved drugs to treat Alzheimer’s on…
While you might read reports about the ongoing debate over what causes Alzheimer’s, Rudy Tanzi, an Alzheimer’s researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and professor…
A special diet that relies heavily on vegetables, berries, fish and olive oil may have the power to slow cognitive decline in stroke patients,…
For a long time, Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia were thought of as a normal part of aging. While becoming more forgetful as…
I was ready to fight back. And if I couldn’t completely protect her from eventual Alzheimer’s, I at least wanted her to be active and healthy, enjoying her present life, for as long as possible.
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One afternoon, I came home and found my parents having a physical altercation. My dad was holding my mom’s arm.
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Not only did music help with my mom’s stress, but it also helped us stay connected to her and gave us a window into the Mom we knew.
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My experiences at work and at home have taught me that because my mom can’t vocalize what she’s feeling or what may be hurting, I need to make sure that I do that for her.
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