Because of my chosen occupation I have countless discussions every week with people about why they are or are not ready to move. One older adult I've been acquainted with for 3 years (I'll call him Steve) says "I'm going......

Hard work never hurt anyone, or so the adage goes, or did it? According to the latest research by Marianna Virtanen from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, long hours at work can harm your brain: Long working hours may raise the risk of mental decline and possibly dementia, research sugge...

The newsreader John Suchet has become the latest public figure to talk frankly about the pain of looking after a loved one with Alzheimer's. In an admirably honest interview in the Telegraph today, the presenter talks about the heartbreak of dealing with his wife's dementia. He finds himself relucta...

The latest evidence appears to indicate that head injuries during football playing and practice result in dementia and death even in younger football players in their 40s, not just the older ones.  Check out Football’s Hard Hits at Alzheimer’s Weekly for a video interview and article o...

There are findings in this study that are to me, quite frankly, rather hard to distinguish from an earlier study. Older studies, such as the one I wrote about in, "More Education Means A Lesser Chance of Getting Alzheimer's, Dementia," showed that people with more education took longer to show sympt...

Most doctors in the country are today seething with anger as the government continues to promote its expensive, wasteful and fraudulent initiatives which purport to “solve� the dementia problem. I have covered this many times before. The appointment of yet more commissars will do nothing except ...

Kids who need vitamins usually don’t take them Children who are taking vitamins are often the ones who don’t really need them, while kids who could benefit from supplements because of their poor diets usually don’t take vitamins. That’s the conclusion of a study from the University of Califo...

Harry Lewis was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when he was 59. Along with his problems with memory and thinking, he began to have hallucinations. “Other people’s hallucinations are about small children, or maybe money,� his wife Sue says, laughing. “My husband......

Monday: Dad called me and asked if anybody was going into town because he needed to go into town to fax some papers. My dad has dementia and I am quite sure he has no business that requires faxing that my mother wouldn't take care of herself. And nobody was going into town. So I did what a self-resp...

Before this friend comments, I'd only be thinking I'm juggling too many balls and I'm bound to miss one once in awhile. After my friend comments, I start to wonder. "Is this normal? Memory loss with age isn't really supposed to be normal, according to many studies. Maybe I'm developing a problem."...