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A facebook app for unpaid caregivers support
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Researchers at IUPUI have developed a Facebook app that, a study shows, offers a way to provide much-needed support to unpaid caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease.
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A decade of Alzheimer’s
Lyft for Alzheimer’s
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The transportation service Lyft is teaming up with the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation to help those who are participating in an Alzheimer’s trial get to and from U.S. and Canadian research sites.
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With no cure, this man continues to beat Alzheimer’s
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Extreme vigorous exercise seems to hold the key to staving off the symptoms.
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A million unpaid caregivers in NYC
Music therapy for Alzheimer’s
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Three health occupation students at Whittier Tech are using music therapy as a way to help patients with Alzheimer’s disease communicate with family and friends.
After watching “Alive Inside” — a film that follows Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, as he works to combat memory loss in patients through the use of music — juniors Allasandra Thompson, of Haverhill, Larissa Havey, of Amesbury and Emily Shal, of Amesbury, wanted to replicate the process.
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Keep this in mind, when caring for an Alzheimer’s patient
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You may not be a professional caregiver but as family of the Alzheimer’s patient you will be confronted with caring for them and interacting with them before you know it. The article in the link for today gives some important basic principles and reminders to help you through the first period.
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Some simple life style adjustments could prevent a HUGE number of Alzheimer’s cases
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Interesting, the video on the page in the link for today highlights life style changes while the words on the site talk about a new compound that has been found that could prevent Alzheimer’s. Both are interesting to read/watch.
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Get them home safely
Looks like you don’t want to see it
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Cognitive impairment is more and more recognized but people continue to underestimate the impact of it. Read the article in the link for today for a good overview.
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Major study update, can we predict who will get Alzheimer’s?
US president does not have Alzheimer’s or dementia
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Dr. Jackson said he spotted “no issues whatsoever” with Trump’s mental ability during his first medical exam as a sitting president. Jackson said that Trump was “very sharp” and “articulate” and that he got a perfect score on a gold-standard dementia test.
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A diet for Alzheimer’s prevention
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“There is encouraging evidence a higher adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with improving cognition, slowing cognitive decline or educing the conversion to Alzheimer’s,” said Roy Hardman, from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
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Going to Christmas mass or not?
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See the debate about whether or not to go with your loved one to Christmas mass.
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Art and Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s in one picture
Online training for caregivers
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Wisconsin has developed a guide or training for caregivers online.
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Great news every day
What if you know you’ll have Alzheimer’s some day?
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In 2013, Ms Gregory and a few others started a nonprofit group and created a website (ApoE4.info) where the community could gather. Today the group has more than 2,000 members. They pore over medical journals, reach out to top researchers in the field and share notes about their experiments with diet, exercise and other lifestyle modifications.
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After the diagnosis
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……..It’s not always bad. There’s good research on this about happiness and diagnoses. When people get diagnosed with a chronic terminal medical condition, oftentimes their mood can decrease, but if you give it enough time, usually they kind of bounce back a little bit – they start to cope with this,……
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It is not early retirement
Time for Alzheimer’s caregivers
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A new study suggests that caregivers need and want to access support resources and that perhaps the experience of caregiving has made them consider the possibility of their own future needs. And there is no doubt that the current number and expected increase in the foreseeable future of individuals with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease will necessitate it.
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One of the many marches to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s
Beating Alzheimer’s on your socks
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A great initiative from a couple that makes Socks to create awareness for Alzheimer’s.
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Joy with Alzheimer’s
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It is important to create some moments of Joy when you work or live with people with Alzheimer’s. In the link for today some tips.
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You may not know this about Alzheimer’s patients
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The article in the link gives a good overview of some things you may not have realized when working or living with an Alzheimer Patient.
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Alzheimer’s at 32
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This is really very rare but still devastating, contracting Alzheimer’s at 32 years of age.
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Why do individuals with Alzheimer’s disease become so isolated?
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The Advocate has a great article about why Alzheimer’s patients become so isolated:
For the most part, when someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. friends and family members become afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing around them so they avoid contact altogether. Socialization dwindles, and the individual becomes isolated and alone.
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Monkeys with Alzheimer’s
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Humans were long believed to be the only animals to get Alzheimer’s disease. But recent research suggests that one of our close relatives, the chimpanzee, may also develop very similar hallmarks of the illness.
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