Category Archives: Human interest

A book and a documentary on Alzheimer

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A documentary about someone writing a book about her mother with Alzheimer, only to find out that before the book is finished, she herself suffers from the disease.

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Alzheimer crime

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Alzheimer is big business. If you think about the millions of people who suffer from this disease and then think about how much they would spend on drugs that effectively keep the disease at bay or even cure the problem. There are in this world always people out to get rich by unfair practices and here is the story of a scientist who was allegedly used in a plot to get insider knowledge about the success of a drug development.

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Write History with Alzheimer

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People with Alzheimer loose their short term memory first. Their capability to recall memories from long ago remains in place during the early stages. This is the time to encourage them to make a project out of recording their life memories. It helps them to feel good, keeps them active and preserves all the memories for the future generations.

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Alzheimer friendly towns

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A wonderful initiative that we cannot support enough. The ACT on Alzheimer collaborative has many partners and supporters and tries to get towns and businesses friendly and adapted to accommodate people with Dementia and Alzheimer.

A Minnesota initiative, the list as their goals:

five goals:

  • Identify and invest in promising approaches that reduce costs and improve care.

  • Increase detection of Alzheimer’s disease and improve ongoing care and support.

  • Sustain caregivers by offering them information, resources and in-person support.

  • Equip communities to be “dementia capable” to support residents who are touched by Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Raise awareness and reduce stigma by engaging communities.

 

Read all about it HERE

Alzheimer and Art

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We have more often emphasized on this blog that art can really help to keep people with Alzheimer more engaged. In our link today a story that illustrates just that.

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