The Copper Ridge Institute, an Alzheimer's disease research and education facility affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has developed a new online training program for family caregivers. Caring ... Read More

When Barack Obama received the Democratic presidential nomination by acclamation, emotions were running high throughout the convention. But one delegate's statement overwhelmed me. Sondra Hollinger-Samuels' father has Alzheimer's disease. As a ... Read More

If you're middle-aged and tend to ruminate about stressful events in your daily life, here's one thing you might not have to worry about: An Israeli study of 9,000 men ... Read More

Here's another reason to step up your strength training: A study recently published in the journal Neurology found that physical frailty may be linked to Alzheimer's disease. The study looked at ... Read More

A few months ago, I blogged about a little boy in the UK with Neimann-Pick Disease-Type C (NPC), a rare genetic disorder that creates symptoms in children that resemble Alzheimer's ... Read More

Researchers from the University of Nottingham have created the first mouse model with the type of brain pathology found in those with Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) or dementia due to ... Read More

You may have heard of the Lifespan Respite Care Act, which provides competitive grants across the country to increase respite care services for family caregivers of those with special needs, ... Read More

The Wednesday edition of The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet on Fox News featured a segment on etanercept treatment for Alzheimer's disease. I was excited to see it since ... Read More

When we think of caregivers, we usually think of spouses or adult children of those who have Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. But with the increase in cases of ... Read More

I wish I could have attended the 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease last week in Chicago. Over 5,000 Alzheimer's researchers from around the world were there. Attending in person ... Read More

In 2004, PBS first aired The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's, the Emmy Award winning show highlighting what we know about the disease's causes and treatments as well as how ... Read More