http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5146212.stm
Summary;
Dolls and teddy bears can help people with Alzheimer's disease interact and
communicate with others, researchers have found.

My Mom has been in assisted care since 2002, in a locked Alzheimer's
ward since 2003.
I went to visit her in Virginia in 2002 and found a woman who weighed
80 lbs and was disoriented and confused.  She could not keep track of

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My mother is 80 years old. She has alzheimers.
She spends all day screaming around the house looking for her things.
She puts something somewhere and the next minute she can't remember
where she put it, and she spends the next 2 hours looking for it. This

Just heard a little while ago from Jules.
He is in the hospital just now too.   Stress will do it to you every time if
you have a bad back, and it seems that his is acting up right now too.   He
got some bad news... from the best neurosurgeon in England.... a guy he has

Thanks for your messages
O have seen him twice today, first time wasnt so good, he looked more
himself (well enough so i could recognise him) but he had been violently
sick

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neurons in the substantia nigra of rats with iron-overload.
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I have read all your nice messages, so kind.
I saw my granddad both visiting times yesterday, and the ward sister let me
see him outside that for 5 minutes too.
He has had half his hip replaced, and each time i went he recognised me and

I just got off the phone with Julian.   His grandfather was going out with
the alzheimer group (like a daycare center) and he fell down the stairs,
breaking his hip.   He is in the hospital right now.  Since it is too late
to visit, Julian is going there in the morning to see how ...

Hi, all:
It's been a while since I posted here. Thought I'd get back in touch with
you to see how everyone else is handling life. I'm glad to see Evelyn,
Dennis, and Tumbleweed still here!

     With the industrialized countries facing a rapidly aging
population, 37 billion dollars
is given away with no money at all going to anti-aging or de-aging
research.  There is a

Family members keep telling me that if a patient lives in assisted
living or a nursing home for three years then he/she qualifies for
Medicaid, which will then pay all costs for life.  I have been
researching this and see no evidence that this is true.  My father has

I lost your fone #, i need to speak to you very urgent, my granddad is
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I dont have your email as the workmen destroyed my laptop and dont have 24/7

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prospectives of infinite when every way seemed closed by the black wall