Archives: November 2017
The Benefits of Singing – Better Recall for Those with Dementia – Smilecast 74
The Benefits of Singing Instructions to Dementia Patients Researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine conducted a study to see if Alzheimer’s patients would be better able to recall new information if it was sung to them. Alzheimer’s patients and healthy control subjects were visually presented with the lyrics...
Caregiver Stress May Lead to Those Living with Dementia Dying Sooner – Video
Caregiver Stress – Dementia patients may die sooner if family caregivers are mentally stressed People living with dementia may actually die sooner if their family caregivers are mentally stressed, according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2007 until 2016, UC Berkeley researchers tracked the mortality of...
Ninety-Two Percent of Caregivers Are Financial Caregivers
Ninety-Two Percent of Caregivers Are Financial Caregivers – Coordinating and Managing Finances for Loved Ones, and Spending $190 Billion on Them Annually A Merrill Lynch study, conducted in partnership with Age Wave, finds that the 40 million1 family caregivers in the U.S. spend $190 billion per year on their adult...
Alzheimer’s Association Trial Match – Smilecast 73
Alzheimer’s Association Trial Match Every 70 seconds someone in America develops Alzheimer’s. In 2050, experts project there will be nearly one million new cases annually. The Alzheimer’s Association has developed TrialMatch, a confidential interactive tool that provides comprehensive clinical trial information and an individualized trial-matching service for people with Alzheimer’s...
Homebound Seniors Twice as Likely to Develop Alzheimer’s – Smilecast 72
Homebound Seniors More at Risk for Dementia Homebound seniors are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as more active individuals. Investigators at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago followed 1,294 seniors from two separate studies. None of the study subjects exhibited dementia symptoms at the beginning of either study....
HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL LONG-DISTANCE CAREGIVER
The Challenges of Being a Long-Distance Caregiver (from Sixty and Me) I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Amy Goyer, family caregiver expert for AARP, as part of our virtual Caregiver Smile Summit. We spoke about long-distance caregiving and being a long distance caregiver. Amy has been a caregiver for...