A report from the AlzheimerÛªs Association, ÛÏChanging the Trajectory of AlzheimerÛªs Disease: A National ImperativeÛ shows that the cumulative costs of care for people with AlzheimerÛªs from 2010 to 2050 will exceed $20 trillion, in todayÛªs dollars. The report also shows that the number of Americans age 65 and older...
Tag: curbing alzheimer’s
Brain Inflammation a Help for Alzheimer’s?
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Florida have conducted studies that suggest brain inflammation is not a trigger that leads to a build-up of Alzheimer’s disease-causing plaques. It could actually be manipulated to cleanse the brain of those plaques. Researchers induced inflammation in the brains of laboratory mice predisposed to...
Life Lessons to Hold Off Alzheimer’s Disease
Read our guest blog in Advance in Long term Care Management. We look at some life lessons that can help slow, maybe even prevent the onslaught of Alzheimer’s disease.
Life Lessons to Hold Off AlzheimerÛªs Disease
Read our guest blog in Advance in Long term Care Management. We look at some life lessons that can help slow, maybe even prevent the onslaught of Alzheimer’s disease.
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
In my keynote The Meaning of Life (so presumptuous huh!) we cover eight basic points that we have learned from older folks about living a quality life. Among them we talk about lifelong learning, having a great attitude and having a broad social network. We have cited studies in the...