After actor Lauren Miller Rogen’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she and her husband, actor Seth Rogen, decided to apply their powers of entertainment…
This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. Michele Castro’s mother and brother both passed…
Before an Alzheimer’s or another dementia diagnosis, many patients get a diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). As Marwan Sabbagh explained in a recent…
This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. Despite being underrepresented in clinical trials, Latinos…
This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. With reports of clinical trials not being…
Lewy Body dementia is the second most common form of dementia, but one of the most frequently misdiagnosed. One thing that makes LBD just…
After 30 hours of neurological and psychiatric evaluations, Laurie Scherrer thought the fifth in a series of doctors, would tell her that she had…
When author and academic Rebecca Chopp went to her yearly physical in 2019, she wasn’t expecting to learn that she has Alzheimer’s. In fact,…
When Wendy Nelson, Ph.D., discovered that she carries two copies of Alzheimer’s genetic biomarker ApoE4, a gene variant associated with heightened Alzheimer’s risk, she…
Gordon Van Slyke’s mother and sister both passed away of early onset Alzheimer’s when they were in their early 60s. When he decided to…
Michele Hall, an attorney working in her county sheriff’s office, first noticed that something was off about her cognitive health when she found she…
For Dale Rivard, practicing law and working as a trial attorney was his calling. Rivard’s diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in 2017, however,…
James Russell is the author of the blog Nevertheless Dementia, We Persist. His daughter Lynne Russell lives with early-onset Alzheimer’s. James shares his family’s…
Retired Air Force engineer Chuck McClatchey, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at the age of 61, shares his story. Desert Storm veteran Chuck McClatchey,…
For Emily Ong, pursuing an accurate diagnosis of dementia has been a difficult and emotional road. In Feb. 2017, she was first misdiagnosed with…