Mobile app for caregivers and their loved ones. Understanding dementia. Cognitive decline: Low calcium and magnesium. Sacrifice essentials for medications.[...]
Curated article excerpts include medications that may speed up cognitive decline, legal and financial links, home-modification tips, self-care sabotage. [...]
Concerned sister asks questions as she helps care for her sister-in-law, who shakes and is confused in the mornings while living with younger-onset Alzheimer's.[...]
Digital health and virtual care technologies make it easier for families to help loved ones take their prescribed medications. Tip: Explain the purpose of each.[...]
Time to break out those walking shoes. The annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s approaches every fall. For some, those walking shoes may need replacing after so many Walks. Walks are pre[...]
What to Do When You Suspect an Alzheimer’s Misdiagnosis While a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is a life-changing event for those diagnosed and their families, it is not always accurate.[...]
Each person I’ve interviewed for this Voices with Dementia column surprises me. Before Brian LeBlanc, who also lives with dementia, referred me to Nancy Nelson, he wrote, “We’re al[...]
Dementia is not choosy. It clings to the lives of diverse people, from the professional worker to the manual laborer, from the celebrity to the person living a private life. Such i[...]
Pennsylvania-born, Texas-raised, world-traveled, Virginia-resident Mary Radnofsky, PhD, is an intelligent woman, professor, librarian, ghostwriter, editor, scuba diver, human right[...]
The use of multiple medications, also known as polypharmacy, leads to nearly 30 percent of all hospitalizations in the U.S. It is the country’s fifth leading cause of death, [...]
My father, Martin Avadian, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at age 86 by a geriatric assessment team shortly before a cowboy invited him to participate in a clinical drug study[...]
