Alzheimer during disasters

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According to the National Institute on Aging, “People with Alzheimer’s disease can be especially vulnerable in disaster situations. Their impaired memory and reasoning skills may severely limit their ability to cope. For caregivers, it is important to have a disaster plan that incorporates the special needs of the person with Alzheimer’s.”

With the current Hurricane season in the US this is a good reminder for all of us. Please go over your plans and read the advice in the article of today’s link.

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Alzheimer and age discrimination

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Read the story about apparent age discrimination in relation to Alzheimer. The writer talks about the tension over age groups between younger audiences interested in prevention and older audiences interested in cure.

The battle between investing in cure or care is not yet over.

The site that brings this information though is of interest for all of you, it is a reading room with lots of articles and clips about the disease for you to peruse.

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Women with Alzheimer’s Deteriorate Faster than Men

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Scientists at the University of Hertfordshire, have found out that women deteriorate more in their mental capacity than men, once they have Alzheimer’s.

This is a new finding that has yet to be explained and probably repeat trails will need to confirm the outcomes.

Suggestions are made that it may be related to hormones but those are early guesses.

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Possible breakthrough in Alzheimer research

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Scientist at the Harvard Medical School and researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute have found that the size of the mitochondria, the part responsible for metabolising energy in cells, matters and may cause the toxic proteins known as  Beta Amalloyd and Tau.

Apparently the larger the mitochondria the more difficult it is to travel along the nerve cells and those can be one meter in length. In tests with fruit flies and mice they have been able to test this relation between the size of the mitochondria and the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease.

The director of Queensland’s Centre for Ageing Dementia Research, Jurgen Gotz, says scientists have been able to successfully treat abnormal mitochondria in fruit flies and mice.

“By changing their size back to normal it’s possible to restore their function and also to prevent the new ones dying,” he said.

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Without a cure for Alzheimer, what can we do?

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The only protective factors against Alzheimer’s known so far appear to be increased physical activity or memory training

However frustrating it may be, there still isn’t a cure for Alzheimer’s disease and even the improved and advance scanning of the brains only serves to confirm that the disease is at a certain stage but the medicine to work at removing the stored proteins proved to be ineffective as by that time the disease is already too far down the path.

Countries with early retirement show a higher incidence of Alzheimer, pointing to a possible impact of remaining active to slow down the disease. Other research however still needs to confirm those findings and it has also been suggested that memory training does only that…..train the memory in the particular exercise used.

We continue to bring you all the research, keep coming back and spread the news so we can extend our service.

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