Alzheimers Disease

A Story of Love, Loyalty, and Alzheimer’s Disease — It was a dark and gloomy day in the small town of Millfield. Mr. Jenkins, a retired schoolteacher, sat alone in his garden, staring blankly at his beloved flowers. He had always had a green thumb, but his once vibrant garden had become overgrown and neglected. His daughter, Sarah, came…

Watching my mom over these years as she suffers from Alzheimer’s has often made me think of Back to the Future, when people are fading from the family photo, and Marty panics; fights to fix it. My mom has been slowly fading from the family photograph, and sometimes it feels…

Quick, simple and non-invasive, the implications are significant. — Voice analysis technology has been studied as a potential screening tool for dementia. The use digitally record audio of neuropsychological examinations have been used to screen for dementia from a cohort of participants from the well-knows Framingham Heart Study. The authors concluded: This proof-of-concept study demonstrates that automated deep learning-driven…

I’m Crying Into My Oatmeal I told myself, I was going to give it a rest, and not write about this anymore, for a while. To give myself, and those who read my stuff, a break, a pause, a moment not feel full of hard, grief filled things. I made…

AFAIK Dispatch #6 — Alzheimer’s Families for Action, Innovation and Knowledge As seen in previous Dispatches, pharma is an easy target to criticize. But they have enablers. One is the investment community, which is in business to get returns, not to make moral choices. Another is journalistic channels of information…

To All Who Downloaded My Book, The Grapes of Dementia — The week before Christmas, I offered my book, The Grapes of Dementia: My Journey of Love, Loss, Surrender, and Gratitude, as a free download. I want to shout a big *THANK YOU* to the 500+ people who downloaded it. I’m aware that most people who download free books never get around to reading them. Please make an exception in this case. The Grapes of Dementia is a novella-sized book and takes only a short time to read, so please consider giving it a go and leaving a review.