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Alzheimer’s Association conference Friday in Cheektowaga
The Daily News Online
CHEEKTOWAGA — Nationally-recognized dementia experts are the featured speakers for a day-long conference hosted by Alzheimer’s Association of Western New York this Friday at Millennium Hotel. Hands-on workshops will be conducted by local experts …

Seminar to educate, support Alzheimer’s caregivers
Times Record News
The seminar will outline manifestations of memory loss, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Gray will discuss ways to meet the physical, emotional, social and environmental needs of someone with dementia. She will also offer proven methods for supporting …

New Health Affairs: Implications Of Alzheimer’s And The State Of Research
Health Affairs (blog)
Unnecessary hospital and emergency department (ED) visits are particularly difficult on people with Alzheimer’s—and costly to the health care system—but they experience them more often than their counterparts without dementia. Zhanlian Feng of RTI …
New care model could save Minn. nearly $1B in Alzheimer’s costsMinneapolis Star Tribune
Taking careTimes Record News
Policy Changes Urgently Needed as Millions of Americans to Start Receiving …Newswise (press release)
Enterprise-Record –Press of Atlantic City
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Professional gets personal as doctor considers care of the Alzheimer’s caregiver
PBS NewsHour
Epstein-Lubow, a geriatric psychiatrist at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., and a professor at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School and School of Public Health, had spent the day hearing about numerous models of care for patients with dementia …

Commitment to create Dementia Friends in our High Streets
Home Care
A recent study by Alzheimer’s Society (external link) found that one in four people with dementia have given up shopping since being diagnosed, even though the majority feel this is the most common activity that enables them to feel part of their …

Winona students develop software for people with dementia
Post-Bulletin
Providing comfort to those affected has the potential to help many people because, according to the Alzheimer’s Association, one in three U.S. residents has some type of dementia at death. Sally Mathew Inglett said she wants to help people with …

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Alzheimer’s Tests on the Horizon?
National Geographic
Those with positive PET scans had a much greater rate of cognitive decline and were more likely to have been diagnosed with dementia than those whose scans had been negative. But even a positive scan is not a perfect predictor, Doraiswamy cautions: “It …
New Health Affairs: Implications Of Alzheimer’s And The State Of ResearchHealth Affairs (blog)
Pros and Cons of Testing for Dementia, from the April 2014 Harvard Women’s …PR Web (press release)
Alzheimer’s Symposium to address dementia careTemple Daily Telegram
Springfield News-Leader –EurekAlert (press release) –al.com
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Bury St Edmunds: Dementia patients behind high levels of violence against …
East Anglian Daily Times
Jeremy Hughes, Alzheimer’s Society chief executive, said: “One in four hospital beds are occupied by people with dementia at any one time. Many people with the condition will not display any sort of violent behaviour. “However, hospitals can be very …

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Palm Springs iHub business helps dementia patients
The Desert Sun
The facility cares for patients with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. The disease causes patients to lose control of their bodily functions and have incontinence. Unable to tell a nurse about their problem, patients can sometimes sit for hours in …

LeBlanc: When a dementia patient is hospitalized
Hernando Today
For a decade Gary Joseph LeBlanc was the primary caregiver of his father after his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. He can be reached at us41books@bellsouth.net. His newly released book “Managing Alzheimer’s and Dementia Behaviors,” …