By Jane Gross, New Old Age Blog, NYTimes.com–During one especially dicey period with my mother, then in an assisted living facility, my brother and I hired a geriatric care manager, first for a consultation and then for additional help at an hourly rate. It felt like such an extravagance, given that we weren’t rolling in [...]
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Why Hire a Geriatric Care Manager? | Alzheimer’s Articles, Information and Resources
February 15th, 2012 
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New Studies Suggest that Alzheimer’s Disease Spreads Like an Infection
February 2nd, 2012 admin Alzheimer’s disease seems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell, two new studies in mice have found. But instead of viruses or bacteria, what is being spread is a distorted protein known as tau. The surprising finding answers a longstanding question and has immediate implications for developing treatments, researchers said. And [...]
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US Wants Effective Alzheimer’s Treatment By 2025
January 18th, 2012 admin Effective treatments for Alzheimer’s by 2025? That’s the target the government is eyeing as it develops a national strategy to tackle what could become the defining disease of a rapidly aging population. It’s an ambitious goal — and on Tuesday, advisers to the government stressed that millions of families need better help now to care [...]
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Alzheimer’s Gene Carriers May Cut Their Risk With Exercise
January 12th, 2012 admin People who are genetically susceptible to developing Alzheimer’s disease may be able to reduce their risk with exercise, a study found. Carriers of the Alzheimer’s gene APOE-4 who regularly exercised over a decade were five to 10 times less likely to have brain plaques linked to the disease than those with the gene who weren’t [...]
Posted in Articles, Resources Tags: 5.4 million Americans have Alzheimer’s, Alzheimer’s Global Growth, APOE-4, APOE-4 gene, Archives of Neurology, Carriers of the Alzheimer’s gene APOE-4, Heather Snyder, John C. Morris, Journal of the American Medical Association, Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, National Institutes of Health, New York, Nicole Ostrow, physical activity, Studies on Alzheimer’s disease and exercise, Washington University No Comments »Weinberg Campus – Buffalo Retirement Community | New York Alzheimer’s Retirement Community
November 23rd, 2011 admin Weinberg Campus is a residential community that is focused on providing a continually-innovative approach to senior living, enabling area seniors to enjoy a healthy, independent and engaged lifestyle. Weinberg Campus is a non-profit organization serving all faiths and is passionate about creating home-like environments that assist individuals to live according to their changing needs and [...]
Posted in Assisted Living, Care Facilities, Nursing Home, Resources, Retirement Homes Tags: Alzheimer's Care Facility, Buffalo Retirement Community, Causes, New York, New York Alzheimer's Retirement Community, New York Alzheimer's Senior Living Community, New York Alzheimers, New York Alzheimers Care Facility, New York Care, New York Care Facilities, New York Care Facility, New York Dementia Doctors, New York Doctors, Weinberg Campus, Weinberg Campus - Buffalo Retirement Community No Comments »The Club at Briarcliff Manor – Premier Senior Retirement Community | New York Alzheimer’s Retirement Community
November 23rd, 2011 admin The Club at Briarcliff Manor is being developed as New York’s premier senior retirement community for residents with high expectations of luxury and lifestyle. This new fee-for-service Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) will offer beautiful homes and best-in-class senior living services and amenities fashioned to your individual desires and needs. The Club at Briarcliff Manor [...]
Posted in Assisted Living, Care Facilities, Nursing Home, Resources, Retirement Homes Tags: Briarcliff Manor, New York, New York Alzheimer's Retirement Community, New York Alzheimer's Senior Living Community, New York Alzheimers, New York Alzheimers Care Facility, New York Care, New York Care Facilities, New York Care Facility, New York Dementia Doctors, New York Doctors, New York Premier Senior Retirement Community, Premier Senior Retirement Community, The Club at Briarcliff Manor, The Club at Briarcliff Manor - Premier Senior Retirement Community No Comments »Baywinde Senior Living Community – Senior Lifestyle Community | New York Alzheimer’s Senior Living Community
November 23rd, 2011 admin Baywinde Retirement Community in Webster is a campus-style community where you can choose from a wide array of lifestyle options. The campus includes two separate buildings – Castle Point and Sage Harbor- as well as independent living Villas. Castle Point offers independent living services and at Sage Harbor provides assisted living and memory care apartments [...]
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Take Cancer over Alzheimer’s in a Heartbeat-The Brutal Truth about Early On-set Alzheimer’s | Alzheimer’s Articles, Information and Resources
October 28th, 2011 admin It was 1991. Traveling between New York and Portland, 34-year-old Chris Gorham managed $100 million worth of bargaining power in women’s apparel for Nordstrom. An avid reader, fiercely independent and fashionably dressed, Chris’s childhood losses hastened feelings of mortality and motivated her to live each day as a gift. Now 50, Chris takes 14 pills [...]
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Veteran Bay Area Political Reporter Rollin Post Dies From Alzheimer’s at 81 | Alzheimer’s Articles, Information and Resources
October 7th, 2011 admin 10/07/2011 12:40:38 PM PDT – Rollin Post of Corte Madera, a veteran television political reporter considered by many to be among the best in the business, died Monday at his home of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 81. Mr. Post, who began as a copy boy at CBS Radio in Los Angeles in 1954, switched to [...]
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September 26th, 2011 admin The New York University is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Our Center is one of 29 NIH Alzheimer’s disease centers(ADCs) in the United States. For patients and families affected by Alzheimer’s, the ADCs offer: Diagnosis and medical management Information about the disease, [...]
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