Alzheimer; News from the web:
This is a great tool for Alzheimer caregivers. You can literally follow your patient in their footsteps.
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Category Archives: Treatment
Suitcase with memories for alzheimer patients
Alzheimer; News from the web:
“Museums look after memories,” says Carol Rogers, executive director for Education and Communities at National Museums Liverpool, “whether they are thousands of years old or within our lifetime. The House of Memories is our project set up to train carers to use those memories as a resource in dementia care.”
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Horses and Alzheimer
Alzheimer; News from the web:
A few days ago we linked to a story about an alzheimer patient and his amazing interaction with a dog. Now we can link to a rather surprising therapy; caring for Horses.
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Alzheimer; News from the web:
Many patients with a newly identified subtype of Alzheimer’s disease are misdiagnosed and don’t receive proper treatment, researchers report. They analyzed the brains of more than 1,800 Alzheimer’s patients and found that 11 percent of them had this subtype, called “hippocampal sparing Alzheimer’s disease.”
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Smoking Pot for Alzheimer?
Alzheimer; News from the web:
New Mexico’s Medical Advisory Board for the state’s Medical Cannabis Program has unanimously voted to add degenerative neurological disorders, like Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) to their list of eligible medical conditions for treatment.
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Hope for Alzheimer from Taiwan
Alzheimer; News from the web:
Six Taiwan-based scientists have announced what may be a long hoped-for breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. They have discovered that so-called statins, drugs developed originally to lower cholesterol levels, seem to reduce the risk of dementia by as much as one-quarter.
It is still early days and reduced risk does not mean prevention or treatment. But there is another glimmer of hope.
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