Hello all -My Aunt is at a stage in her Alzheimers where she requires 24
hour care.  She is in a Alzheimer care unit of a wonderful assisted living
facility in New Jersey.
The facility has been draining her life savings to almost empty to pay for

I believe my mother is entering the last phase of Alzheimers.  For the past
week, she refuses to eat and gets very combative if you try to feed her.
She will grab hold of your arm and dig in her finger nails and won't let go.
Is this not eating part of the progression of the ...

Does anyone know if I have a case against the NH where my dad was staying
before he died.  He was an Alz patient and had only been there a brief time.
He was losing a lot of weight and the doc wanted him tested for cancer, etc
to see why she was losing.  It's a fact that many Alz ...

The pharmaceutical lab Merck withdrew its painkiller Vioxx because it
was found that patients were twice as likely to suffer heart attacks
and strokes.
The New England Journal of Medicine questioned the safety of all COX-2

She was to the Doc's last week & he told her that she has it.:-(  I knew
something was a miss before that.  Sometimes you just know.  She is taking
the new med Aricept.  I don't know waht will happen next.  It is very
upsetting.

Aluminum causes Alzheimers ?
Well we know how the smoking industry pressured scientests to disprove
that smoking causes cancer.
Well not according to INFOWATCH funded by Smith and Harroff who  was

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My mother was diagnosed 4 years ago with Alzheimer's.
She is now into a stage where she slips into pieces of long ago memories
and mixed with fragments of today. She is always out of since with her
memory but these lapses into what can be best described as dreams is

My name is Juliette Tierney and I am a student at Kingston University
(Surrey). I am hoping to write a 2,500 words research article about
Alzheimer's, focusing on how family and carer's are affected as well as
sufferers. I am having very little luck finding someone willing to

on the 14th at around 4:30AM My father passed away..to everyone who
responded to my posts and prayed for me and my family I thank you very
much. I had said he was 63 ut his birthday was on the 12th he turned 62
but he was with us for two more days...my mom, sister and brother where

Hello again to all.
I remember getting quite a few of you upset about driving despite having an A.D.
diagnosis.
My neurologist has now, given new scans, has forbid me to drive. Roughly, he has

Well there isnt one this week, i was on my way to see him yesterday, and i
call off at my uncles for a cup of tea first etc...
Anyway he told me that he had to call the cops midweek, as he lives next
door to my real mom...anway her husband tried to take a baseball bat to her

...from alzheimer's? How long did they live with it? My dad was
diagnosed with alzheimer kind of young...he was 58...I was 28 and had
just moved back in after quiting a job. I'm 32 now and Dad is 63... It
is my mother and I who've been taking care of him day and night. Hospice

From time to time, I see people post news stories or articles of interest
to the Alzheimers community on this newsgroup.  I certainly don't want to
try to tell anyone something they already know, but it sounds like some
here might not know it.  There is a group called Ageless ...

I do not mean to intrude, after reading some of your postings my heart goes
out to you and your loved one.
While I do not have Alzheimer's, I have a couple of problems with my memory
and was looking for strategies to deal with the problem.