In the 1950s, doctors Carlton Gajdusek and Vincent Zigas trekked over mountains and across rivers to study a mysterious and fatal neurological disease called…
Dementia can be tough for young family members to get their heads around. Here are six pieces of guidance from children’s book authors who’ve…
Talking about dementia with family members can be difficult, especially when it comes to explaining dementia to children. Story books can be incredibly helpful…
Before her diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and early-stage Alzheimer’s in 2019, Rebecca Chopp was a widely published author, editor, and academic, serving as…
Dementia doesn’t just affect the brain of a patient. As clinical psychologist, educator, and author Dasha Kiper explores in her new book, the disease…
Dementia can be isolating — for the person living with the disease, and for caregivers. It can also be generative. For a number of…
Lewy body dementia is one of the most common forms of dementia. Estimated to make up almost 20 percent of dementia cases worldwide, the…
Becoming a caregiver for someone you love who is living with dementia can be an incredibly isolating experience. Even with his experience as a…
In October of 2022, French writer Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize for literature for her body of work: 23 books over the past…
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It’s tough letting go of life as we know it. Reconciling with the fact that Alzheimer’s takes away our loved ones’ memories, their ability…
Each of these authors shared their own unique experience with dementia in our 2021 Being Patient LiveTalks, and throughout all of these insightful, personal,…
A career journalist, newspaper and magazine editor, Greg O’Brien learned from his mother what it means to truly live with Alzheimer’s, and it was…
For Nicole Bell, her husband Russ Bell’s diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s was inexplicable. Russ was young and otherwise fit and healthy. He exercised, ate…
Despite the absence of disease-modifying treatments, the dementia rate in developed Western countries has actually declined in recent years. In fact, one study showed…