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When Elder Care Problems Escalate, You Can Hire an Expert
CARING for an elderly parent is emotionally and mentally draining. There are diagnoses to decipher, housing issues to consider, health aides to vet and a raft of legal documents to complete. It can...
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Paul Allen Gives $300 Million for Alzheimer’s & Brain Research
Paul G. Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, announced on Wednesday that he would commit $300 million over the next 10 years to turn the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a nonprofit organization he...
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$1000 Elder Care and Service Listing Contest Results!
$1000 Elder Care & Service Listing Contest Results Thank you all for participating in our $1000 Elder Care and Service Listing Contest! As mentioned in our original post we would be awarding 5...
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Alzheimer’s Prevention Requires Healthy Lifestyle
Strong evidence suggests that a combination of healthy changes to lifestyle can have a huge impact on reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The conference titled “Lifestyle Approaches...
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MRI Scans Predict Alzheimer’s Disease In Older Patients
Investigators from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, have shown that in most elderly patients invasive and expensive techniques, i.e. lumbar puncture and PET scan, are not useful to establish...
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Symptoms Of Dementia Warded Off By The Bilingual Brain
New research explains how speaking more than one language may translate to better mental health. A paper published by Cell Press in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences examines how being bilingual...
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Casual Fridays: Showing Simple Delights of Alzheimer’s –“Laughing and Singing”
Casual Fridays are a series of real stories about people with Alzheimer’s and Dementia. They are positive, slightly sad but enlightening. I want to show that you can still have intimate personal...
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Long-Term Memory May Be Improved By Blocking ‘Oh-Glick-Nack’
Just as the familiar sugar in food can be bad for the teeth and waistline, another sugar has been implicated as a health menace and blocking its action may have benefits that include improving...
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Alzheimer Diagnosis Possible With Scan
A much-anticipated test developed by Eli Lilly & Co. that detects the presence of proteins in the brain that are related to Alzheimer’s disease was approved Friday by the Food and Drug...
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Pulse Pressure Elevation Could Presage Cerebrovascular Disease In Alzheimer’s...
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System have shown that elevated pulse pressure may increase the risk of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) in...
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