More than 5 million elderly people have a hard time remembering things, sorting through daily decisions and even sometimes knowing what day it is, according to the first national estimate of how commonly the minds of aging Americans are starting to fade.
Using detailed evaluations of a nationally representative sample of 856 people age 71 [...]

This is a repeat of a one of my first posts.  The weather is so nice, finally, I am out looking for the sister or brother to the bass I am holding.  Wish me luck.
OK, I admit it, I will go to almost any length to justify my love of fishing and to invent [...]

A recent study by a national foundation of sandwich generation caregivers suggests that children are helping to care for grandparents or other elder adults in their lives who have Alzheimer’s disease. Nearly three out of five caregivers said their children aged 8 to 21 are involved in caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s [...]

The hardest part of caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s type disorders is not the everyday practical challenge, but rather the emotional impact of losing the patients’ support and companionship as the disease robs them of their faculties, according to new research at the University of Indianapolis.

“You are losing and grieving while you’re [...]

It would seem that the old wives’ tale “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” has borne fruit again in that a new study suggests that apples, bananas and oranges protect against neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s. The website, Medical News Today, reports on the results of a recent study conducted in both the [...]

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German doctor. In 1906, Dr. Alzheimer noticed changes in the brain tissue of a woman who had died of an unusual mental illness. He found abnormal clumps and tangled bundles of fibers. The clumps are now called amyloid plaques and the tangles are [...]

OK, I admit it, I will go to almost any length to justify my love of fishing and to invent (if need be) reasons to indulge in my hobby. But, researchers may have just provided the perfect, iron-clad reason to wet hook and line and eat the catch. A recent article in the Journal [...]