Sherita Jenkins faced a lack of support as she cared for her late mother with dementia. Now, her caregiving experience is a beacon for…
Science says: Call your grandparents. A new study shows that regular phone calls could improve people’s mental health — a reminder of the value…
As part of our LiveTalks series, Being Patient spoke with Gail Gregory, Peter Middleton and George Rook about their dementia diagnoses and what it…
According to a recent study, older adults who use Zoom and other digital social platforms to communicate with friends and family experience slower cognitive…
A force of dementia advocates call on congress to triple funding for CDC Alzheimer’s & Healthy Aging Program Dementia advocacy groups including UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, American…
Even though developing brain-trauma related neurodegenerative disease CTE is a risk for professional impact-sport athletes, there is still no way to diagnose it in…
University of Washington Professor of Medical Anthropology Janelle Taylor discusses the benefits of being friends with someone who has dementia. Each year, in the…
Donald Weaver, professor of chemistry and director of Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto, explores depression and dementia in the age…
In case you missed them, our editors and contributors round up their most recommended reads from the month of April in Being Patient Reads…
This rural Kansas memory care facility takes an experimental approach, offering an immersive experience for retired farmers and ranchers. The result? Happy animals, happy…
Lena Chow Kuhar tells the story of her late husband Bob’s Alzheimer’s journey — and how it led to her new project, Bob’s Last…
What can the novel coronavirus pandemic teach us about dementia? How are rural communities grappling with the public health toll of cognitive decline? How…
Essential Caregiver Programs have allowed some people to reunite with loved ones in American long-term care facilities after months of pandemic isolation, but for…
What can the Biden administration do to stop Alzheimer’s? How can people with advanced stages of cognitive decline experience end-of-life moments of lucidity? What…
All photos courtesy of Mary Lou Grace Robison. Main image: “Crumbling,” published in The Ignatian Literary Magazine Mary Lou Grace Robison only picked up…