With five advocates covering 48 facilities in Deep East Texas, there is an urgent need for more volunteers and resources in long-term care advocacy.
The AFA Virtual Helpline Assistant, an avatar named “Allison,” is a free, fully interactive resource on AFA’s website (www.alzfdn.org) which answers users’ questions about dementia ...
Some tips for creating a dementia-friendly festive environment include: Take cues from your loved one. Base plans on what a ...
Sri Lanka has become one of the fastest aging countries in the world. Its share of the population over 60 years of age, which ...
Dementia patients and their families in Gwent are experiencing significant benefits from the person-centred Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) ...
Wildfire smoke in the air has become a signature of summer in the North. While rarely welcome, smoky days are growing less rare every year as climate change continues to ...
as the vulnerability of patients with cognitive impairments such as dementia requires constant vigilance and has become a ...
Hillsborough County launched C.A.U.S.E.D., a program to support individuals with dementia and their caregivers.
Most of us forget things every day, like people’s names or where we put our keys, but this is not necessarily a sign of dementia. In dementia, memory loss is more serious than forgetting things every ...
Veteran photographers Robert Maryland and Larry Dalton became their own support system when they both found themselves caring ...
How we train future clinicians has the potential to radically and sustainably improve healthcare for everyone. Current medical education has an overt biomedical focus that does not engage enough on ...
HARRISBURG — The number of Pennsylvanians diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease is likely to increase by 133,000 in the next 15 ...