How to Accept Alzheimer’s and Operate in Alzheimer’s World
The Alzheimer's patient starts to feel different. They feel your acceptance. Instead of thinking you are the enemy, they start to feel that you are the protector. Their security blanket.
By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomWhen...
Care of Dementia Patients, It’s Not Your Fault
One thing I have learned over the years is that Alzheimer's caregivers tend to blame themselves too much.
By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomCaregivers often agonize over things that go wrong. They often wish they had...
Why People with Dementia Say No (And What to Do About it)
There are ways you can interact with someone who has dementia to minimize the use of the word “No”, and to get them to cooperate more easily.
By Rita JablonskiAlzheimer's Reading Room
People with dementia say...
Study shows how exercise generates new neurons, improves cognition in Alzheimer’s disease
A study by a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team finds that neurogenesis -inducing the production of new neurons - in the brain structure in which memories are encoded can improve cognitive function in...
Alzheimer’s – They Love Us More
It is not unusual for an Alzheimer's caregiver to wonder if the person living with Alzheimer's or a related dementia still loves them. Do they?
The simple actions that person living with dementia perform each...
10 Great Inspirational Alzheimer’s Quotes
I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then?
~Bob DeMarco
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Alzheimer's Care, The Power of...
Problems with Balance, Walking, Falling an Early Sign of Dementia
Balance and walking problems often present before the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's or dementia.
By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomWhen I first came to Delray Beach to take care of my mother, she was...
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...
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16 Ways to Get a Dementia Patient to Eat More Food
Alzheimer's and dementia patients often eat less, and have difficulty eating, because of problems like chewing, swallowing or digesting food.
Alzheimer's and dementia patients sometimes lose interest in eating. This can happen for a long...
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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...