Alzheimer ’s Advocates Push ‘Silver Alerts’ for Seniors

Published on Tuesday 26 August 2008 - 08:59 - http://www.memphisdailynews.com/

Advocates say Tennessee should join other states in establishing alert systems for elderly people suffering from dementia who wander unknowingly into ....

Study: Physical, Cognitive Fitness Can Fight Alzheimer 's

Published on Tuesday 26 August 2008 - 06:42 - http://www.channel3000.com/

Next Steps: If facility doesn't respond, move mother

Published on Tuesday 26 August 2008 - 06:00 - http://www.post-gazette.com/

After Mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's three years ago, my father took care of her at home until he was unable to do so due to stress and safety concerns. ...

Living with Alzheimer 's

Published on Tuesday 26 August 2008 - 05:34 - http://www.sgvtribune.com/

When Alice Swick's husband was first diagnosed with Alzheimer's about six years ago, she tried to care for him herself.

Take a ‘Coffee Break’ for Alzheimer ’s

Published on Tuesday 26 August 2008 - 05:00 - http://www.canadaeast.com/

Over 10,000 dedicated 'hosts' from coast to coast will soon be helping with the fight against Alzheimer's and other related diseases.

Proteostasis Therapeutics Raises $45 Million to Develop Therapies for Protein Homeostasis Disorders

Published on Tuesday 26 August 2008 - 04:12 - http://www.nanowerk.com/

Newly formed Cambridge, Mass.-based Proteostasis Therapeutics Inc. has raised $45 million in a Series A financing to develop therapies, which the firm has dubbed proteostasis regulators, to treat...

Early-stage Alzheimer 's patients 'don't want to be stigmatized'

Published on Tuesday 26 August 2008 - 02:14 - http://www.usatoday.com/

Being treated with dignity is a universal human need, and perhaps even more so if you have early Alzheimer's disease, a new report ...

Aida Edemariam on Baroness Thatcher and the nature of dementia

Published on Tuesday 26 August 2008 - 01:05 - http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/

Aida Edemariam: According to the Alzheimer's Society, one in 50 people between the ages of 65 and 70 has a form of dementia

HealthWatch: August 25

Published on Tuesday 26 August 2008 - 00:50 - http://www.nbc5.com/

Topics: Breastfeeding and breast cancer | ginkgo biloba and Alzheimer's disease | incense and cancer

Peter Goodspeed: Alzheimer 's and the brillant Thatcher brain

Published on Tuesday 26 August 2008 - 00:08 - http://www.nationalpost.com/

It was November, 1994, when Ronald Reagan shocked the United States with an intimate open letter in which he told Americans: “I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans...