“At the end of the day, we need to use cells like these to better understand Alzheimer’s and find drugs to treat it.” — Lawrence Goldstein Alzheimer’s Reading Room Stem Cell Derived Neurons A group of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of…

In my new World I learned how to understand, cope, and communicate with a person living with Alzheimer’s dementia. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room Many of you are new to the Alzheimer’s Reading Room so I’ll start by mentioning that I studied communication in college and graduate school….

This is not the first time I reinvented myself, and it won’t the last. Just you wait and see. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room Jane Gross wrote an article about the Alzheimer’s Reading Room on the New Old Age blog on the New York Times website. If you…

Seventy five percent of the care givien to people with dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease is provided by family. Alzheimer’s Reading Room… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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We have quite a bit of intellectual capital and medical science here on the Alzheimer’s Reading Room relating to falls, balance, gait, and… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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An article about the Alzheimer’s Reading Room (ARR) was published on the New Old Age Website yesterday. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room Jane Gross I wanted to alert you to a new article that was published about the Alzheimer’s Reading Room (ARR). If you have the time, take…

I’m sitting here remembering the way back when. Way back when I didn’t know anything about Alzheimer’s. Remembering how I stayed up until 1, 2, 3 AM reading everything I could find that might help me care for my mother, Dotty. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room Back in…

We need a real plan to keep persons living with Alzheimer’s at home without bankrupting their spouses. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer’s Reading Room It appears there is a great deal of dissatisfaction with the recently released Draft Framework of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease . The actual…

I learned that prejudice is a function of fear. I also learned that most of the agitation evidenced by Alzheimer’s patients is rooted in fear and misunderstanding. By Max Wallack Alzheimer’s Reading Room This past week we celebrated Martin Luther King Day. I made of point of delivering puzzles…

We cannot let these foxes be the spokespersons for us. We cannot let them spend all our money on bench/cure research and relatively little on psychosocial research. We cannot let them decide for us who should be the focus of their efforts and who can be ignored. By Richard…