I told y'all that my brother was taking our mom to California this week
and putting mom in a facilty there.  Well, Wednesday morning, just as I
was getting up, I got a call from him.  Mom had ended up in a stranger's
house about three blocks from her home the night before -- she ...

I didn't want to "dilute" my post about optimism and cures, but I also
wanted to toss this out to the group.  At the same symposium where the
"cure" paper was presented, there was a paper presented about the potential
benefits of tumeric circumin as a treatment to delay cognitive ...

His mind, that is.
Diagnosed nearly two years ago and now the first 'sign of the times' has
appeared.  He is convinced that mom is cheating on him after 50 years of
marriage.  Claims to have walked in on her while she was having sex with

Hi, I would like to invite you to participate in a research study
conducted by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and University
of Pittsburgh's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center on the memory
practices of people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or mild

His mind, that is.
Diagnosed nearly two years ago and now the first 'sign of the times' has
appeared.  He is convinced that mom is cheating on him after 50 years of
marriage.  Claims to have walked in on her while she was having sex with

Mom has become completely paranoid about my brother.  She went over to
his house this weekend, nicely dressed, wearing makeup, and demanded her
car keys, because she wanted to "drive to California to see Ellen."
(Ellen is her sister, and lives in Maryland.  It's our sister Kim ...

It's been a little over a year since we placed Mom in assisted living.
Then in October we had to move her to memory care because she was
starting to wander from assisted living.  None of us have adjusted.  My
mother doesn't like her living situation.  I'm not crazy about the care

I so appreciate everyone's generosity in sharing their wisdom about the
holes in my "plan" to someday move home with my elderly parents. It was
a real wake-up call.
Yes, my father HAS been diagnosed with moderate dementia. Are there no

Some info here, only a few days old.
http://www.upi.com/HealthBusiness/view.php?StoryID=20060716-053149-3155r
large scale studies as well, much bigger than the much publicised recent
one.

I've been doing some reading regarding the stages of Alz. disease hoping to,
more or les, pin down what stage my father is currently experiencing. There
seems to be a bit of confusuion over when he was actually first diagnosed
with AD. I've lived in a different Province from my ...

medical trials, patch instead of tablets, new potential drugs
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71412-0.html?tw=wn_technology_14

Go to the home page of your webtv and read about alzheimers....It runs
in famlies..But there is help for you if you get started earley....If
it's in your family you get it....and the diabetes goes with the
alzhiemers we know that now.....but they have a new drug to help

My Dad is 88 and my mom 78. She's in poor health but, aside from
deafness, my dad was doing well, on no medications whatsoever, and
busing to the casino up to twice weekly with other seniors.
When my mother was suddenly hospitalized, it was revealed how bad my