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Taking Alzheimer’s Drugs is Showing Promise of a Longer Life

While it's well known that the drugs available now for people with Alzheimer's disease, namely donepezil (Aricept), rivastigmine (Exelon), galantamine (Razadyne), and memantine (Namenda), don't cure the disease, they do help slow the decline

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-19-2008
Elders and Sex: Who Gets to Decide What is Proper?

Then they giggle and – kiss. Yikes! Aren’t they kind of old for that? Our society has marginalized people over fifty when it comes to love and sex.

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-17-2008
A Rollercoaster Ride of Studies Providing Hope

Be aware that this is a journal for scientists and the article is written as such, so how much you get out of the article itself will depend on how much you've already learned about the physical intricacies of the disease.

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-11-2008
Minding Our Elders Makes NYTimes.com Online Resource List

I'm please and honored that veteran health reporter Jane Gross listed Minding Our Elders under resources for caregivers

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-09-2008
Dementia Care Download - Part II

I've been alerted to the fack that some can't download the PDF that I posted from the Michigan Dementia Coalition titled, "Knowledge and Skills Needed for Dementia Care" - (thanks Michelle, for letting me know).

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-28-2008
The Glass Seed: A Daughter’s Quest to Understand Her Mother’s Dementia

The Glass Seed: The Fragile Beauty of Heart, Mind & Memory, by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, is a personal account of one woman's journey as she learns to cope with, and understand, her life within the context of history, family and her mother's dementia.

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-28-2008
Alzheimer’s and Wandering: We Keep Learning

She'd walk and walk and walk and then see a chair and sit and say, "I'm sooo tired." Then she'd get up and start walking again. The staff, friends - any of us - would sit by her or walk by her and say, "Of course you're tired, Hazel

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-18-2008
Alcoholism and Elders: Watch for the Signs

The medics took him into surgery to repair the hip and then Joe spent a horrible week in the hospital, hallucinating and shaking from withdrawal in addition to the expected pain of the broken hip.

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-14-2008
The Employed Caregiver - Blending the Issues

Caregivers are the most effective and efficient when they arm themselves with as much information as possible about their aging loved one’s current situation- both financial and medical."

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-10-2008
Counseling for Caregivers

An article by Denise Clark, titled "The Importance of Counseling for Caregivers," shares some good advice that could help guide...

Posted to Minding Our Elders (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-23-2008

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