Alzheimer’s care, there is an app for that

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If you care for an Alzheimer’s patient you will recognize this situation; you have visited your mom with Alzheimer’s and after your visit your sister visits her. She asks mom; “Has my brother been visiting you lately” and the mom will most passionately say things like: “your brother!!! haven’t heard from him in months!!”…. but you just left the facility.

Now there is an app where families and caregivers can keep track of who has been to see the patients and….. to verify the information you have been told during your visit.

Read all about it HERE

Alzheimer’s and diabetes

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We have reported more often about the relation between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s (use our search box in the top right to find other articles) but in today’s link another urgent warning about this relationship with the focus on preventing diabetes.

Read all about it HERE

Keep your brain active!

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You have probably seen many postings and articles about the importance of keeping your brain activity going to try and stave off Alzheimer’s. Well in our link for today you’ll find some hobbies that will help you to do just that.

Read all about it HERE

An experimental Alzheimer’s drug

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Alzheimer’s trial

  • The trial: 200 people globally with a family history of Alzheimer’s
  • The drug: Targets amyloids that build up and create plaques in the brain, it binds to them and is flushed from the brain preventing brain damage
  • Who it can help: Initially potentially people with a genetic predisposition but hopefully people with Alzheimer’s generally, Parkinson’s disease and other kinds of dementia
    For more information: www.brainpet.org

Read all about it HERE

Art and Alzheimer’s

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Art and medicine have long been intertwined – from the earliest depictions of human anatomy to modern art therapy. A new art exhibit (“Interstice: Memory, Mind, and Alzheimer’s Disease,” open through September 9 in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University) takes that relationship in a new direction. A neuroscientist and artist teamed up with fellow artists to explore what it’s like to have Alzheimer’s Disease.

Read all about it HERE