Alzheimers

Welcome to the 'Alzheimers' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Alzheimers'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Alzheimers”

• Executive Function and Other Losses

  
  Dementia Nights — Authority: 125
  Remember my inspiration last month? The one about getting him through the move by telling him that he was going to live near me with some people who work for me, and that thered be work for him, too? File...
  1 day ago

• 60 Minutes The Cost of Dying (Video and Transcript)

  
  EF Hutton — Authority: 107
  "Families cannot imagine there could be anything worse than their loved one dying. But in fact, there are things worse....Most generally, its having someone you love die badly, suffering, dying connected to machines." -- Dr. Ira Byock, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.... Last year, Medicare paid $50 billion just ...
  1 day ago

• Worried About Alzheimers? You Should Be

  
  informationpreneur — Authority: 92
  Regardless of age, you should be worried about Alzheimers disease..... Worried About Alzheimers? You Should Be Regardless of age, you should be worried about Alzheimers disease. A Harris Interactive poll showed that 100 million Americans are touched by Alzheimers. The same poll showed that more than 33 million ...
  2 days ago

• How to Teach Others About Alzheimers Disease

  
  dementia views you can use — Authority: 129
  Here is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can be Here are more interesting dementia brain boosting activities Here is a dementia Thanksgiving activity eHow According to the Alzheimers Association, as of July 2009, ...
  2 days ago

• Protect your Brain’s Health in a Berry Nutty Tasty Way

  
  Mental Fitness Blog — Authority: 408
  If you love berries, grape juice, and walnuts, you already have an upper hand when it comes to protecting the health of your brain.  If you aren’t already wild about them, it’s time to fall in love! The polyphenols in walnuts and berries help quiet the inflammation and oxidative stressin the brain.  These are ...
  3 days ago

• Worried About Alzheimers Disease ?

  
  Alzheimer's Reading Room — Authority: 557
  Regardless of age, you should be worried about Alzheimers disease.....Worried About... If you would like to repost this article on your blog or website email me.
  3 days ago

• Music triggers memories in dementia patients

  
  Shrink Rap — Authority: 435
  One of the raps on iPods is that users tend to close themselves off from other people and retreat into their own private world.But with stroke and dementia patients, iPods and other MP3 players are having just the opposite effect.Listening to rap and reggae on a borrowed iPod every day has helped Everett Dixon, a [...]
  3 days ago

• Alzheimers Wandering in Delray Beach, Florida -- New Identification Program

  
  Alzheimer's Reading Room — Authority: 557
  My kinda town.... Bob DeMarco Alzheimers Reading Room Editor In Delray Beach, Florida they get it. They care. They understand persons suffering from Alzheimers are likely to wander. Statistics show that 60 percent, over 3 million, Alzheimers sufferers are likely to wander. It wont cost you 50 bucks ...
  4 days ago

• Alzheimers Disease Progression

  
  All Upcoming Stories — Authority: 173
  Alzheimers is progressive disorder that occurs in brain. There are three stages in this Alzheimers disease. Original news source
  5 days ago

• My mother’s furnishings Stolen

  
  CVN Home — Authority: 138
  My sisters took it upon themselves to distribute my mother’s personal possessions, even though she isn’t dead yet! My mother dementia. My sister claims she moved my mother out of her home due to “dangerous build up of mold and mildew” within the house! …please show me where it is? I took these photos of the ...
  5 days ago

• Tomorrows Adventure: The First Visit

  
  Dementia Nights — Authority: 125
  A call yesterday with S, the social worker. They still have some trepidation about how hell react, but theyve decided its OK for me to visit. Ill go up to see him tomorrow afternoon. I have some trepidation, too. But...
  5 days ago

• Medivation Starts New Clinical Trials for Alzheimers -- Dimebon

  
  All American Investor — Authority: 419
  I wanted to bring this into you awareness Full disclosure: I am in the process of determining if my mother is a candidate for the Dimebon with Namenda clinical trial. Protocol Number: B1451006 No Dimebon clinical data exist yet in patients with disease that has advanced to the moderate-to-severe stage. ...
  5 days ago

• Facts You Did Not Know About Alzheimer’s And Hypertension

  
  Health & Fitness Blog — Authority: 169
  You are going to get astonished to know the truth that the American Heart Association reports that 73 million, which is about one third of adult Americans, suffer from hypertension. Two million children and teenagers are also suffering from high blood pressure. When the force of blood flow circulates abnormally ...
  5 days ago

• The world’s smartest rat

  
  Shrink Rap — Authority: 435
  Hobbie-J is a genetically engineered rat. Hobbie-J’s NR2B gene, (which controls memory), was boosted as an embryo. The rodent can remember objects three times as long as its smartest peers and can better solve complicated puzzles like mazes. But even a super rat has its limits. For example with one test, the rats ...
  5 days ago

• Counting the Cost – Caring for people with Dementia

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 144
  Counting the cost: caring for people with dementia  Alzheimers Society, 2009 Click on the title above to access the full-text of this report Abstract: People with dementia – who occupy a quarter of all hospital beds – are staying far longer in hospital than people without the condition who go in for ...
  5 days ago

• Medivation Starts New Clinical Trials for Alzheimers -- Dimebon

  
  Alzheimer's Reading Room — Authority: 557
  When people find out that I once worked in a Wall Street firm they often ask me what stocks they should be buying. They also ask which Alzheimers stock they should buy...... I am not in the habit of recommending stocks. Its not my job. So Ill start by saying this is not a recommendation. On the other hand, the site ...
  5 days ago

• November Resources for The Sandwich Generation

  
  SandwichINK.com — Authority: 130
  It’s official, per President Obama. November is National Family Caregivers Month .  Did you know that we have plenty of company, according to Michelle Seitzer of Seniors for Living? In her article, November is National Family Caregivers Month , she wrote, “Says the U.S. Department of Health & Human ...
  5 days ago

• Another Day in Dream Land!

  
  Living with Alzhiemers' — Authority: 110
  where i get my titles is unknown to me. But it seems that my dreams and my reality are starting to be one in the same. I wake up hear voices, it is my dream entering my what ever you call it, I guess my here and now. It takes awhile for things to clear up. I am normally fine until this time of the day, after this ...
  6 days ago

• Alzheimer’s Vaccine on the Right Track

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 435
  AFFiRiS AG announced today, that Alzheimer’s vaccine candidate AFFITOPE AD02 will undergo immediate tests for potential efficacy in a Phase II trial. This means that the company can focus its diversified development program for Alzheimer’s vaccines earlier than initially planned. The reason for the decision is ...
  6 days ago

• The dangers of walking and talking

  
  The Checkup — Authority: 538
  Remember the old joke about walking and chewing gun at the same time? Well, theres new evidence out today about what might be the modern equivalent: Walking and talking on a cell phone. And its no laughing matter. Researchers at the University of Illinois studied 36 college students as they talked on a cell phone ...
  6 days ago

Comments about Alzheimers