Category Archives: Alzheimer Overview

What to do about early onset?

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Effective measures include exercising regularly, engaging in “brain games” (including crossword puzzles, Sudoku or computer-based games), eating a heart-healthy Mediterranean diet, controlling high blood pressure and diabetes, and getting plenty of sleep.

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An Alzheimer cafe

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A place to go to have coffee and cookies. Put together a puzzle, sing, draw, find fellowship, relax. A place where no one looked at you sideways or judged your behavior.
An Alzheimer’s cafe.

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A new blood test that could change things

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A simple blood test may soon be able to diagnose patients with two common forms of dementia – Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) – and tell the two apart.

Researchers at UC San Francisco analyzed the blood test in more than 300 patients and say they hope to see such a test available in doctor’s offices within five years.

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