Casual Fridays are a series of real stories about people with Alzheimer’s and Dementia. They are positive, slightly sad but enlightening. I want to show that you can still have intimate personal connections with people with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Additionally, I hope that readers can relate them to their own experiences. While some of these [...]
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Casual Fridays: Showing Simple Delights of Alzheimer’s – “The Task Master”
April 13th, 2012 
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Safeguards Needed to Prevent Discrimination of Early Alzheimer’s Patients in the Workplace
September 30th, 2011 admin The changing tide of Alzheimer’s diagnosis presents new challenges to the public, physicians and lawmakers: if you could find out your Alzheimer’s risk, would you want to know? How should doctors tell you your risk? And what does it mean for the many newly diagnosed Americans still in the workplace? Despite the emergence of new [...]
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