fox8.com

Local therapist honored nationally for creating high-tech Alzheimer's facility fox8.com CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio – He created a concept that revolutionized the way patients with dementia and Alzheimer's disease receive care. Now Lantern Group CEO Jean Makesh was selected as one of the top 50 influencers in aging in the country. Makesh …

WEAR

Dance away dementia for Alzheimer's Awareness Month WEAR "It reduces stress for everybody," said Kimalee. "It works on the core posture and strength, flexibility, balance, you lose weight." Body and mind. Health experts are now recommending seniors to pick up Salsa and Samba in an effort to 'dance away …

Learn how to travel with Alzheimer's or dementia The Suburban Times Getting out and seeing the world is one of those pleasures that almost everyone enjoys. Whether it's heading off to delightful far off places or taking in vistas nearby, travel can lift the heart and stimulate the mind. But with a diagnosis of …

Psychiatry Advisor

MRI May Help Identify Lewy Body Dementia vs Alzheimer's Psychiatry Advisor HealthDay News — Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain may aid diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies versus Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published online Nov. 2 in Neurology. Starting in 2005, Kejal Kantarci, MD, a radiologist at …

Alzheimers Foundation of America Announces 2016 Dementia Care Professional of the Year EconoTimes 10, 2016 — The Alzheimer's Foundation of America's (AFA) Dementia Care Professionals of America (DCPA) division is proud to announce that Heather McKay, M.S., O.T./L., and a dementia care specialist at the Hospice & Palliative Care Center of … and more »

Latin Post

Antibody-based treatment may cure dementia Latin Post Currently, there are fewer than 30 million people worldwide diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's, but it seems that the figure gets higher each year. Experts predict that by 2050, dementia could affect more than 130 million people and that will …

AZFamily

Dementia Walk helps caregivers relate to loved ones AZFamily Life with Alzheimer's can sometimes feel isolating when others can't relate to your everyday challenges. Now, local caregivers are getting new insight on their loved ones' struggles. No one knows Pat Carmichael better than her husband of 55 years, Ron.

Science Daily

Power outage in the brain may be source of Alzheimer's Science Daily In new research appearing in the journal Alzheimer's and Dementia, Diego Mastroeni, Paul Coleman and their colleagues at the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center (NDRC) and the Biodesign Center for Bioenergetics investigate the … and more »

Daily Mail

HRT could cut your dementia risk as it could be triggered by falling oestrogen levels Daily Mail Women should consider taking hormone replacement therapy to cut their risk of developing Alzheimer's, experts claim. It was thought that women were twice as likely as men to get the disease because they live longer. But US researchers found that the … Study elucidates why women have higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than menNews-Medical.net Who has better memory, men or women?Valley News Live all 22 news articles »

Nature.com

Neuroscience: Tide of forgetting Nature.com It extends to dementia due to multiple sclerosis, stroke and encephalitis. For instance, some 5–30% of people who have a first stroke develop dementia. But the book's focus is Alzheimer's disease, and rightly so: it is what up to 80% of people with …