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We link today to a site that gives good information for caregivers to fight the stress that their work may give them. It is important to take good care of our caregivers!
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Category Archives: Alzheimer Overview
Can your cellphone detect your Alzheimer’s?
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Not yet:
doctors can’t yet diagnose someone from afar with only smartphone data. Before we can use these new sources of data to inform clinical decision-making, we need to overcome some significant technical challenges.
But it is definitively coming read the interesting story.
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Beloved Music Can Renew Lives Lost to Dementia
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At MUSIC & MEMORY℠, they help people in nursing homes and other care organizations who suffer from a wide range of cognitive and physical challenges to find renewed meaning and connection in their lives through the gift of personalized music.
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What Alzheimer’s looks like
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Book recommendation
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Read the review, the short:
Joseph Jebelli’s personal study of a disease that has reached epidemic proportions offers the latest research – but not much hope
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Death rate from Alzheimer’s has increased 55% over 15 years
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Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia, affects about 5.5 million Americans – a number that’s expected to balloon to 13.8 million by 2050.
As the incidence of people living with the neurodegenerative disease has gone up, the death rate has as well.
Between 1999 and 2014, the rate of deaths related to Alzheimer’s in the US increased 55 percent, to 25.4 deaths per 100,000 people, according to data released Friday from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
But there is also good news:
A Global Plan on Dementia has been adopted by the WHO, this is a big deal!
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