Alzheimer's music therapy class stimulates the mind
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Alzheimer's Disease
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Alzheimer's Association looking for donated space
Tifton Gazette - Wed Nov 25, 5:03 pm ETThe Southwest Georgia Region of the Alzheimer’s Association still plans to relocate its office from Albany to Tifton to be more centrally located, but has yet to find a donated space here to set up shop.
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Analyzing structural brain changes in Alzheimer's disease
Science Daily - Mon Nov 23, 1:29 am ETIn a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle, sub-regional brain volume loss using magnetic resonance imaging.
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Alzheimer's living facility coming to MQT
WLUC Marquette - Mon Nov 23, 4:29 pm ETEight thousand people in the Upper Peninsula suffer from Alzheimer's and dementia, so Brookridge Heights Assisted Living in Marquette is adding on to help those people and their families.
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Alzheimer's help for blacks in Kentucky
UPI - Sun Nov 22, 8:47 pm ETLEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- University researchers said black victims of Alzheimer's disease in Lexington, Ky., are getting help following an outreach effort.
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Alzheimer's study: Progress, but back of pack in funding
Detroit News - Mon Nov 23, 1:03 am ETDearborn -- Alzheimer's disease is the only major disease without a prevention or cure, and fatalities are on the rise. Yet it is a disease that gets a fraction of federal research dollars when compared to other ailments, said Harry Johns, president and CEO of the national office of the Alzheimer's Association.
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Research on Alzheimer's among blacks was lacking
Louisville Courier-Journal - Mon Nov 23, 12:52 am ETAlzheimer's disease is thought to be up to twice as common in blacks as in whites, leading some advocates to call it a public health crisis in the African-American community.
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Police Search For Alzheimer's Patient
KITV Honolulu - Tue Nov 24, 10:36 pm ETHonolulu police try to track down an Alzheimer's disease patient that was last seen in front of Kamalu Elderly Housing.
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Hickory resident releases DVD on what she thinks leads to Alzheimer's disease
Hickory Daily Record - Sun Nov 22, 10:23 pm ETAs an occupational therapist, when Deborah Barham sometimes moves an Alzheimer's patient's arm or massages a certain spot, memories will flow.
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Alzheimer's caregiver meetings Dec. 5, 17
Edison-Metuchen Sentinel - Tue Nov 24, 7:18 pm ETAlzheimer's Association, Greater New Jersey Chapter, will hold caregiver support group meetings 10:30 a.m. Dec. 5 at JFK Hartwyck Adult Medical Day Center, 2050 Oak Tree Road, Edison; and 7 p.m. Dec. 17 at Oak Woods Senior Housing, 700 Woods Lane, Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick. For more information, call the helpline at 800-883-1180.
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Alzheimer's Research Gets Federal Boost
Indiana's NewsCenter - Tue Nov 24, 10:14 am ETCHICAGO (AP) - Alzheimer's research in Chicago is getting a big boost from the federal government.
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Volunteers, scientists at University of Kentucky seek answers to Alzheimer's
Louisville Courier-Journal - Sun Nov 22, 3:21 am ETUK is a global pioneer in Alzheimer's research, with a decades-long body of work and 700 volunteers, some with the disease and some without, who are studied for years and donate their brains when they die.
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Alzheimer's has ripple effect on families
Courier-Post - Wed Nov 25, 10:13 am ETMemory loss is a strange thing.
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Joyce Irene Lundgren
Sterling Journal-Advocate - Fri Nov 27, 7:38 pm ETyce Irene Lundgren, 72, of Haxtun, died after seven years of Alzheimer’s disease Nov. 24, 2009, in Haxtun. Visitation for Joyce will be until 7 p.m. today, Friday, Nov.27, at Gerk Funeral Home in Haxtun.
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Readers reach out to Alzheimer's patients, caregivers
Newsday - Sat Nov 21, 11:17 pm ETThe offers started coming in Sunday morning. As readers picked up Newsday and saw Karen Henley's story of caring for her husband, Mike, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at age 36, many felt the need to do something, anything, to ease her burdens.
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Fla. Alzheimer's patient found on Orangeburg
The Times and Democrat - Tue Nov 24, 1:06 am ETAn 80-year-old Alzheimer’s patient who went missing from his Florida home Friday was found riding on railroad tracks in Orangeburg on Monday, according to media reports.
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