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By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Front Row

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FDA Facilitates Research on Earlier Stages of Alzheimer's Disease

Research has shown that there is a lag of many years between the beginning of changes in a patient’s brain and the onset of Alzheimer’s symptoms.

Alzheimer’s disease is a nightmare haunting many Americans.

Despite years of intensive efforts by scientists to develop new safe and effective treatments for Alzheimer’s, options remain limited. In the last 20 years, FDA has approved five drugs for the disease—the most recent one in 2003. Although the drugs can provide some benefit, more needs to be done.

Memory Tests

Alzheimer's Complications That Cause Death

Alzheimer's is a life shortening form of death but typically people die from complications of Alzheimer's or dementia.

The most common cause of death from Alzheimer's is Aspiration pneumonia.

This occurs when food, saliva, liquids, or vomit is breathed into the lungs or airways leading to the lungs.

One of the most frequent complications and causes of death from Alzheimer's disease is aspiration pneumonia.

Read more about this topic.

Death by Complications from Alzheimer's, What does this mean?

Dying from Dementia -- Dementia Suffering Often Unnecessary

Alzheimers Care The Path from Burden to Joy

Slides from a presentation to Alzheimer's Caregivers

A presentation to the Alzheimer's community on how to understand, cope and communicate with a person living with dementia.

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3 Caregivers Rob Woman with Alzheimer's and Now She Might Lose Her Home

Three people are accused of trying to exploit an 81-year-old woman with Alzheimer's.

Her husband passed away in 2012, and authorities say they took over as her caregiver.

The police report shows the three used:

• her bank and credit card accounts to pay their own bills
• and stopping the payments on her mortgage.

The woman's home is now foreclosed.

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A ray of light for Alzheimer's caregivers

I just finished reading an interesting article in the Boston Globe about a program this is designed to help caregivers and their loved after a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's.

The dementia care consultation program is a joint venture of the Tufts Health Plan, and the Alzheimer’s Association of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Already, hundreds of families have been referred to the program by physicians.

Experimental Drug Intepirdine (RVT-101) is now being investigated in a Phase 3 clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease

President of Publix Super Markets Charities Carol Jenkins Barnett Diagnosed with Younger Onset Alzheimer's

Carol Jenkins Barnett Chairman and President of Publix Super Markets Charities, has been diagnosed with younger onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Problems finding your way around may be an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease

The ability to find your way around, find you way home, or find your way around in new places could be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease.

Problems finding your way around may be earliest sign of Alzheimer’s disease, study suggests

How to Get Answers To Your Questions About Alzheimer's and Dementia

Could Thinking Positively About Aging Be The Secret Of Health?

Can how you think and what you believe affect your Alzheimer's caregiving effort?

Dietary Supplements may prevent reverse damage in brain

A dietary supplement containing a blend of thirty vitamins and minerals—all natural ingredients widely available in health food stores—has shown remarkable anti-aging properties that can prevent and even reverse massive brain cell loss, according to new research from McMaster University.

It’s a mixture scientists believe could someday slow the progress of catastrophic neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s, ALS and Parkinson’s.

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