5 Things Everyone Should Know About Alzheimer's

Understanding Alzheimer's is not easy. These articles demystify the disease and answer many of the most frequently asked questions.

What is the Difference Between Alzheimer's and Dementia?

In this easy to read and understand article you will learn about the difference between Alzheimer's and dementia. When someone is told they have dementia, it means that they have significant memory problems as well as other cognitive difficulties, and that these problems are severe enough to get in the way of daily living.

Test Your Memory for Alzheimer's (5 Best Memory Tests)

This article provides information and links to the five best free tests for Alzheimer's and dementia. These five memory tests are self assessment tests for Alzheimer's, dementia, and mild cognitive impairment.

Answers To Questions About Alzheimer's and Dementia

We have 4,970 articles that address the problems often faced by people caring for someone living with Alzheimer's. How to communicate, How to get them to take medication, How to get them to take a shower - you name it, we have it. Lots of advice and tips on how to understand, cope and communicate with a person living with dementia.

Alzheimer's Association: Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

The national site for the Alzheimer's Association. The website contains information on Alzheimer's disease and dementia symptoms, diagnosis, stages, treatment, care and support resources.

Alzheimer's Disease Fact Sheet | National Institute on Aging

Looking for facts about Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia in older adults. This website is full of information about Alzheimer's, dementia, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and caregiving.

Where Can I Find Information About Alzheimer's Disease

The Alzheimer's Reading Room Knowledge Base contains more than 4,000 articles.

Alzheimer's - Solving Incontinence Problems

When the problem with urinary incontinence gets bad -- worse then usual -- do you immediately think you need to have the person tested for a UTI?

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At its core the Alzheimer's Reading Room is about helping members of the Alzheimer's and Dementia Communities understand, cope, and communicate with persons living with Alzheimer's and Dementia.

To find the answers to your problems, and learn from others, search the

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Alzheimer Aggression and Challenging Behavior

People with dementia often exhibit agression and behaviors that are frustrating, embarrassing, and sometimes even dangerous to the Alzheimer's caregiver and others.

These behaviors can include angry outbursts, agitation, aggression, wandering, vocalizations, hoarding or hiding things, and inappropriate sexual behavior.

For many caregivers, these difficult behaviors are the most challenging and exhausting aspect of caring for a person with dementia.

We suggest reading the following article and information on this topic.

Dealing with Difficult Behavior Caused by Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

Gandy on the enormous financial and emotional toll of Alzheimer's

As of October, 2013, a decade has now passed since the fourth and most recent standard drug for Alzheimer's was approved, and none of the four slows disease progression.

Alzheimer's typically begins with changes in memory, personality, or executive function, and eventually, all sentient brain function is destroyed. Patients die in what neurologists call a vegetative state.

Setting aside for a moment the enormous emotional toll of Alzheimer's, the economics are potentially devastating to most countries where lifespan exceeds 80 years.

Medicare spends $13,207 per year to care for a patient with Alzheimer's, and $4,454 per year to care for a similar patient who is not affected by the disease.

If, by 2015, the onset of Alzheimer's were delayed by 5 years, this delay in disease onset would lead to a savings of $111 billion over 10 years. Without such a delay, Medicare spending for Alzheimer's will soar to over $1 trillion by 2050.

To lure companies and scientists back to Alzheimer's disease drug discovery research, we must rethink our regulatory protection policies.

Alzheimer Obsession with Time

A search of the following keywords - Alzheimer obsession with time - lead the reader to the following article.

You are off to a good start by lowering her anxiety by the fake phone call.

Next, try to expand your creativity and redirect her thoughts away from the obsession.

You want to develop a series of very short explanations -- one or two sentences at most and appropriate to the what is going on at the time of her obsession. For example, if the time she’s remembering is school age children and it’s during the day, then of course they are in school and will be home soon.

If it is later in the day, perhaps they are at a friends houses playing; or, aunt Mary took them shopping for your Christmas present, birthday presents, school clothes, etc.

Whatever makes sense to her (a normal activity at that time).

NIA 2012-2013 Alzheimer's Disease Progress Report

Even as we search for answers, an aging America must contend with the dire financial and societal impacts of age-related dementia.

The passage of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA) in 2011 focused a national effort to find treatments and support people with dementia and their caregivers.

As a result, the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, announced in 2012 and updated in 2013, provides a cohesive, national plan to move research forward, provide better clinical care, and improve services for people with the disease and their families.

Alzheimers Lucidity

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Alzheimers Lucidity

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Alzheimer's Reading Room.

Why Do Alzheimer's Patients Have Lucid Moments?

Memory Types Affected in Alzheimer's

Normal aging leads to changes in the brain, especially in areas involved in learning and memory.

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memory types affected in a alzheimer's

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How Alzheimer's Affects Memory

The different memory systems -- episodic, semantic, procedural, and working -- involve multiple areas of the brain.

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Mother Fell and Could Not Walk

A reader entered the following keywords into AOL search

mother fell and next day could not walk

Alzheimers and Peeing in Places

A reader came to the Alzheimer's Reading Room after searching Bing using these keywords

Alzheimers and Peeing in Places

Alzheimer's Care Partner Lament - This is not the person I knew

Alzheimer's care partners often lament - this is not the person I knew.

Ths happens when care partners focus on the past rather than on the present.

This is understandable.

Sundance Highlights Power of Music on Dementia Partients

A new film showcases the power of music and its incredible effect on patients with Alzheimer’s, who visibly light up when they hear songs from their youth.

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Sundance film highlights power of music on patients with Alzheimer’s

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Anesthesia Memory Loss Elderly

Does anesthesia hasten memory loss in persons already living with Alzheimer's and dementia?

Do Alzheimer's Patients Forget How to Do Things?

Almost every day I am reminded of one of the most important things I learned about Alzheimer's caregiving --

Just let them do it.

Alzheimer's Knowledge Base

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I'm 46 Years Old, I Can't Have Alzheimer's Disease

James describes many of the changes he was undergoing as he and his family came to the realization that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease; and, as all the other possible explanations of his memory and behavior changes were ruled out.

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I'm 46 Years Old, I Can't Have Alzheimer's Disease, The Story of James Smith

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One of the hardest things to do as an Alzheimer's caregiver is learning how to understand a person living with dementia.

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Alzheimer's Communication Tip, No More Blah Blah Blah

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Axona Ketone Animation

In Alzheimer's disease and preclinical models, raised ketone levels protect against amyloid-β toxicity and deposition and provide cognitive benefits.

These properties make ketones an attractive means to address the diminished cerebral glucose metabolism (DCGM).