This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. Some of the United States’s most widespread…
Musician Tony Bennett, a master of beloved musical standards, died this week at age 96. Tony Bennett’s family announced in 2021 that he had been…
I’m writing from Amsterdam, where this past week, the Being Patient editorial team has been reporting on the biggest news from the Alzheimer’s Association…
Alzheimer’s disease is often thought of as a condition that only affects the elderly. But around 3.9 million people worldwide aged 30 to 64…
AMSTERDAM —In the data presented at this week’s Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Amsterdam, donanemab has been shown to slow development of memory and…
Good news for brain health this summer: FDA-approved drugs like Leqembi available for Alzheimer’s are becoming more widely available. The caveat: These drugs only…
As I prepared to board the plane to Amsterdam for the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, an email from the news site Axios caught my…
Drugmaker Alzheon is currently running clinical trials on a new disease-modifying Alzheimer’s treatment: valiltramiprosate, or ALZ-801. While, like the new buzzy new Alzheimer’s monoclonal…
A record number of people — 6,524 and counting — are expected in Amsterdam next week for the annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference. As…
On July 6, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration fully approved the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi (generic name lecanemab), a monoclonal antibody drug for…
After 30 hours of neurological and psychiatric evaluations, Laurie Scherrer thought the fifth in a series of doctors, would tell her that she had…
Last week I had the opportunity to be the guest speaker of Grand Rounds at the Memory and Aging Center at the University of…
As the world population has grown older, Alzheimer’s disease has become increasingly common. Alzheimer’s disease is the most prevalent form of dementia. Dementia is…
At first glance, celebrity animal expert Jack Hanna appears to be living a nice, quiet life at his home in Montana. In the mornings,…
Here’s a video is what it looks like to truly live with dementia: My 94-year-old mom in a later stage of Alzheimer’s disease, rocking…