October is Lewy Body Dementia Awareness Month Eight years ago, Angela Taylor had never heard of Lewy body dementia (LBD), the second most common form of progressive dementia after [...]
Watch these two short Alzheimer’s videos in commemoration of Dementia Awareness Day and World Alzheimer’s Day. What is Alzheimer’s disease? How does the disease m[...]
36 Million with Dementia…an epidemic At the recent Alzheimer’s Disease International’s conference, reported number of people worldwide living with dementia has in[...]
We’ve heard about caregiver dementia which strikes many at-home caregivers overwhelmed by caring for loved ones. But a recent study published in the Journal of the American G[...]
Dementia numbers from the Alzheimer’s Disease International’s report– The worldwide costs of dementia will exceed 1% of the global GDP in 2010, at US$604 billion.[...]
Lewy body dementia strikes 1.3 million Americans and is unknown to most primary care physicians, according to a recent report by the Lewy Body Dementia Association. Nearly 80% of p[...]
Although most of the estimated 5.3 million Americans with Alzheimer’s disease live in the community and are cared for by their families, about two-thirds of nursing home residents [...]
Today’s MSNBC report on a study finding spouses of those with dementia are at an increased risk of getting dementia is a wake-up call to all caregivers. Caregiver Dementia T[...]
National Family Caregivers Month, Long-Term Care Insurance stuggles, 19-year-old diagnosed with Alzheimer's, living alone with dementia, lucidity before death.[...]
People with dementia often say, "I want to go home." After having fun with a family of friends, I am learning about Japan's culture for a feeling of "home".[...]
