Alzheimer's - Still Searching for the Cure

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Phyllis Johnson

Alzheimer's disease sufferers and their families and friends haven't had much to celebrate in terms of new treatments for the disease in recent years. No vaccine against the disease has been developed. No new drugs or treatments have been proven to reverse the progress of the disease as it marches inevitably toward death for its victims.

It was understandable, therefore, that there was excitement at the Alzheimer Association's International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Chicago last July, when some promising results from drug trials were reported that appeared to present a new understanding of how the neurological disease works.

Scientists are beginning to segregate out different therapeutic targets and develop drugs that have....read the whole article

Is hearing loss an early sign of Alzheimers or another dementia?

lundi sept 2008 |Destination Santé
According to an American study, minor memory problems could be associated with an auditive deficit. Does this mean that hearing loss could be one of the first signs of dementia ? For the time being, the authors of the report can’t answer this. They simply state the facts, and recommend that healthcare professionals carry out hearing tests on the elderly as a matter of course.

The researchers studied 313 individuals over the age of 80, all of whom were taking part in a programme to monitor neuro-degenerative diseases, with Alzheimer’s disease at the forefront. Of those studied, 232 showed no memory problems (control group) ; 17 were diagnosed as suffering from dementia ; and 64 had slight memory loss. All participants underwent a hearing assessment. The patients with dementia and memory problems received the......read the whole story

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Elder Care & Elder Rage: Know the Warning Signs of Alzheimer's!

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By Jacqueline Marcell
For eleven years I pleaded with my elderly father to allow a caregiver to help him with my ailing mother, but after 55 years of loving each other - he adamantly insisted on taking care of her himself. Every caregiver I hired to help him sighed in exasperation, "Jacqueline, I just can't work with your father-his temper is impossible to handle. I don't think you'll be able to get him to accept help until he's on his knees himself."

My father had always been 90% great, but boy-oh-boy that bad temper was a doozy. He'd never turned it on me before, but then again - I'd never gone against his wishes either. When my mother nearly died...read the whole story