Alzheimer's music therapy class stimulates the mind
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Alzheimer's music therapy class stimulates the mind
The 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.
In 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.
Eight 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.
LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- University researchers said black victims of Alzheimer's disease in Lexington, Ky., are getting help following an outreach effort.
Dearborn -- 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.
Alzheimer'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.
Honolulu police try to track down an Alzheimer's disease patient that was last seen in front of Kamalu Elderly Housing.
As an occupational therapist, when Deborah Barham sometimes moves an Alzheimer's patient's arm or massages a certain spot, memories will flow.
Alzheimer'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.
CHICAGO (AP) - Alzheimer's research in Chicago is getting a big boost from the federal government.
UK 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.
Memory loss is a strange thing.
yce 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.
The 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.
An 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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