Research shows two of every five cases of Alzheimer’s and related dementias are preventable. According to credible, peer-reviewed scientific studies, here are the 8…
Is there a way to communicate with people living with Alzheimer’s who have become nonverbal? Dr. Maggie Ellis shares techniques around adaptive interaction, an…
Interfaith Hospice Chaplain Ellie Douglass discusses her approach to caregiving through creative listening, mindfulness and respectful language. Caregiving for a person who is nearing…
Healthy diets seem to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. But new research calls everything we thought we knew about the Mediterranean diet into question. Why…
Researchers in Denmark say they’ve found that destroying a certain gene can prevent early-onset Alzheimer’s. The test subjects who helped them prove it: a…
Adaptive interaction — a way of communicating that involves mirroring a person’s actions — is helping carers connect with nonverbal people living with dementia….
Reporter Phil Gutis is living with Alzheimer’s. So is his dog, Bea. One day, the same approach to treatment might help them both. Sometimes…