I found out my moms medical assistance will pay me.Her ins.(medica)will
not.They pay you for hours you are physically doing things for her.Such
as,bathing,making meals,giving her pills,dressing her etc.I need to find
a agency that will hire me .I will be a PCA.I called one agency ...

ABC nightly news had a piece on a new drug under study for the treatment of
Alzheimer's. It effects the bodies production of the damaging brain protein
which they believe leads to ALZ.
Does anyone know anything about it and what its name is?

I Just came back from Europe to NYC were I have been for the past 6 years in
order
to help my family during  my stepmother's last days, she since past away(
Parkinson's)

I'm reposting this from alt.support.stop-smoking where I've been a regular
for some time.
I recently learned that my father's forgetfulness and odd communications
were not simply...forgetfulness and odd communications.

Anyone have dosage info about clioquinol as a possible
drug for dissolving the copper and zinc left in amyloid
deposits without causing toxicity  ?
tests on mice seem pretty conclusive but no-one is saying

  Can anyone tell em anything about subj. Does it help on Dementia?

Can anyone tell me what happened to the theory that aluminium from cooking
pots caused this decease, and that we should not cook acidic food like fruit
which would dissolve the metal?It was quite a topic a few years ago.I'm sure
some of you will have the answer,    I have recently  ...

J Neurochem. 2004 Aug;90(3):758-64.  Links
Vitamin E reduces amyloidosis and improves cognitive function in Tg2576 mice
following repetitive concussive brain injury.
Conte V, Uryu K, Fujimoto S, Yao Y, Rokach J, Longhi L, Trojanowski JQ, Lee VM,

I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this drug
(galantamine) in treatment of Alzheimer's? After looking into it a lot I
considered it safe enough to test on myself.
That probably sounds odd especially since I don't have the disease but

I wrote early today about a new drug, but since I found this group, I
wanted to ask, just how long do most people have this awful problem. My
mother started having symptoms when she was 70 she is now 83 and has
gone down hill through the years till she's just like a zombie now. She

Dad has developed a major sweet tooth over the past few years, and has
stopped drinking decaf coffee, isn't interested in juice, doesn't drink much
water - a coffee cup full of water to down his pills three times a day.  He
will occasionally have a non-alcoholic beer with dinner, ...

Did anyone else see "My Mother, Our Journey" on MSNBC today? It first aired
in April.
I thought it was wonderful. Unlike PBS "The Forgetting," which was more
clinical in its approach, this was simply the story of one family and how

Seems this newsgroup has gone very quiet lately?
How is everyone doing?
Miss all your posts!

Not so good, last night i foned him to ask him to dig out a load of nuts and
bolts for today, i called up today and he had no knowladge of them, although
his sister in law(my late nans sister) knew were they were ready for me as i
guess he would have looked for them straight after ...

I have a decision to make, but I just don't feel capable of making it. If only
I were a child again and had someone to make it for me. I haven't been well for
sometime, but I've been managing. I have several health problems that I won't
go in to, but since Friday my blood pressure ...