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Helpful tips for providing a bath or shower for your loved one when their ability to independently manage their personal hygiene declines.
A home that is dementia friendly can decrease your loved one's risk of falling and provide freedom to use their own abilities.
Learn about a new form of dementia, called LATE. The article discusses how many people may have this form of dementia, the brain regions that are affected by this disorder, how it is currently diagnosed, and the next steps for research.
As the Vice President of Clinical Trial Development at Biogen, Samantha Budd Haeberlein, PhD, leads the company’s worldwide clinical trials on Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Haeberlein recently spoke with BrightFocus Foundation, whose Alzheimer’s Disease Research program currently supports 133 research projects worldwide.
Mario Cornacchione, DO, recently joined BrightFocus Foundation, the parent organization for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, in a Scranton PA community forum on Alzheimer’s and caregiving. Dr. Cornacchione is a practicing physician and is also working with several clinical trials. What follows is a brief question and answer session between BrightFocus and Dr. Cornacchione.
Learn helpful steps that caregivers can take to protect their loved ones from wandering.
Up until now, the best method scientists have had to fight Alzheimer’s has been using drugs to treat the symptoms of the disease after they start to show. But new research offers them new hopes for treatments to attack the disease sooner.
In what is being hailed a “game changer” for Alzheimer’s research, researchers Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD, and Se Hoon Choi, PhD, both BrightFocus grantees, have done the impossible. Together with their colleagues, they have managed to grow human brain cells in a laboratory for use in Alzheimer’s testing.
