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Promises made. Promises broken. In 1965 I was 9 years old when my grandfather was moved to a nursing home. The massive wooden door of the old mansion-turned-institutional care facility always [...]

Sorting through the new research Our recent news cycle has teemed with reports from the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC18), an annual gathering of scientists and [...]

Studies, articles and blogs today give caregivers advice on balancing responsibility and managing stress. Whether you can hold a demanding job(s) or advance a career as a primary caregiver [...]

You’ve been successful managing most aspects of your complicated life and are proud of the relationships you’ve nurtured and maintained through it all. Whether you’re a baby boomer, a millennial [...]

Alzheimer’s disease is now the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Behind this statistic are 16 million Americans providing unpaid care to a loved one with Alzheimer’s or related [...]

Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD, formerly known as Pick’s Disease) is less common than Alzheimer’s among the many forms of dementia. However like Alzheimer’s, FTD is untreatable, can be diagnosed as [...]

One-in-ten seniors die from dental neglect. Most common can be inhaling bacteria found in dirty dentures, gum infections or poorly maintained teeth causing aspirational pneumonia. With [...]

I take my place in a comfortable chair at an Alzheimer’s support group session with the usual participants; mostly older women serving in the role of unpaid care partner to an aging loved one.   [...]

Every Sunday, Rob Backlund of Burlington gathers envelopes and stamps and prints out seven copies of a letter. Daily letters to the leader of the free world are an example of how Backlund has [...]

A tremendous toll is exacted on family in the early phase of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease as we move from denial to acceptance. We live in fear of what will happen next, but in greater fear [...]