Caregiver Health: Stress, Grief and How to Cope
We talk to Lori Nisson, Director of Family and Community Services at the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute about how to protect your mental health while…
We talk to Lori Nisson, Director of Family and Community Services at the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute about how to protect your mental health while…
Two conflicting emotions were woven inextricably throughout the six years between my father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and his death: love and grief. The love was…
By Emily Woodruff Dementia is not a disease that just takes away memories. It steals a person’s ability to communicate and perform everyday tasks,…
Researchers are developing a high-tech dresser to offer support with dressing for people living with dementia. Caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients know that it isn’t…
For today, there are no doctor’s visits. No long afternoons with nothing to do. No struggles over bathing — or not. At the National…
Do you ever wonder why you feel so good when you hear an old favorite song you know all the words to, but you…
Hospitals have failed to identify dementia in one third of patients, a new study from the U.K. shows. Those patients, who require unique support…
Jasja De Smedt Kotterman, whose mother died of Alzheimer’s in 2017, said she was always fearful that her mother was in pain toward the end…
Listening to music at a World Rocks Against Dementia day, as well as hosting a food and clothes drive to raise money for homeless…
While taking a tumble might sound harmless enough, falls are a common threat to adults over 65—about one-third experience a fall over the course…
As Alzheimer’s diagnoses rise and treatments in clinical trials continue to stall, the cost of the disease is going up—to the tune of $277…
As with many Alzheimer’s patients, it was the family who suggested my mother get her memory tested. She was 68 years old, repeating herself,…
As Alzheimer’s progresses, getting a normal night’s sleep becomes difficult for patients. Researchers believe disturbances in Alzheimer’s patients’ sleep patterns may be caused by several factors: the…
Scientists have discovered that disturbed sleep patterns may indicate Alzheimer’s years before symptoms occur, and Alzheimer’s can cause changes in the brain that affect…
While there is currently no treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, a drug called Aricept can temporarily ease the symptoms for a short period of time….