Last 25 Articles in the Alzheimer’s Reading Room
The goal of the Alzheimer's Reading Room is to Educate and Empower the Alzheimer's community.
At its core the ARR is about helping Alzheimer's caregivers and families to better understand, cope, and communicate with...
The Frightened, Angry, Anxious, Mean Dementia Patient
Don't get angry at the actions of someone that is living with dementia. Instead remind yourself - it is not their fault.
by Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomBored, frightened, bewildered, apprehensive, anxious and angry. I can...
Why Do People Living with Alzheimer’s Want to Go Home?
Do Alzheimer's patients want to go home? Or are they longing for a time and place when they were safe and secure and knew everyone's name and face?
My mother repeatedly said she wanted to...
2 Nonverbal Communications Tips for Alzheimer’s Caregivers
Are you having difficulty understanding, coping and communicating with a person living with dementia? Try these 2 nonverbal communication tips.
By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading Room
It isn't easy to learn how persons living with Alzheimer's think,...
3 Ways to Redirect a Dementia Patient and Embrace Reality
Some caregivers find it difficult to redirect Alzheimer's patients - why not try these simple methods?
Learning how to redirect an Alzheimer's patient is often difficult. The concept itself is difficult to grasp.
Learning how to embrace...
What’s the Difference Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia?
In a nutshell, dementia is a symptom, and Alzheimer's disease is the cause of the symptom. When someone is told they have dementia, it means that they have significant memory problems as well as...
Urinary Tract Infection, You Can Learn From My Experience
When a UTI goes undetected in an Alzheimer's patient they can become mean, delusional, dull, disoriented or worse. Undetected UTIs are common in Alzheimer's and dementia patients.
Yes, there is such a thing as a...
16 Things I Would Want, If I Get Dementia
Just in case I do get dementia, I've written a list of rules I’d like to live by.
When you work in dementia care, people tend to ask you a lot of questions. Probably one...
Could Alzheimer’s Disease be Caused by Herpes? A New Study Says Maybe
With all the advanced research in finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), it’s difficult to believe that the cause of the...
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What is a caregiver?
A caregiver gives care to someone who needs help taking care of themselves. The person who needs help may be a child, an adult, or an older adult. They may need...
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Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to...
A new USC-led study on rats that feasted on a high-fat, sugary diet raises the possibility that a junk food-filled diet in teens may...
Repurposing non-pharmacological interventions for Alzheimer’s disease through link prediction on biomedical literature
The complete workflow is depicted in Fig. 1. To investigate the association between NPIs and AD, we initially conducted preprocessing and integration of biomedical triples...
Degenerative Dementias and Their Medical Care in the Movies
Compared with other neurologic problems, few films have been dedicated to degenerative dementia. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review about the...