Alzheimer?S

How to Best Help Alzheimer's Caregivers? Teach Them Mindfulness

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Stress, Caregiving, Depression, Dementia, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Alzheimer?S, Mindfulness, Mbsr, Dementia Care, Stress Reduction, Caregivers, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Caregiver Training, Mindfulness-Based Dementia Care, Mbdc, Healthy Living News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

Mindfulness is about slowing down enough to connect with ourselves and our loved one, moment to moment. As we do so, we can de-stress and at the same time give ourselves and our loved one the chance of experiencing greater well-being.

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Alzheimer's Disease Spreads By 'Jumping' Around The Brain, Study Finds

Reuters | Posted 04.03.2012

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* Findings suggest disease 'jumps' from neuron to neuron * Alzheimer-related protein tau plays key role * Blocking prote...

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The 'Presence' Approach to Care With Alzheimer's and Other Types of Dementia

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Caregiving, Alzheimer?S, Alzheimer's Disease, Presence Approach, Presence Approach Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's Care, Alzheimer's Caregiving, Alzheimer's, Video, Healthy Living News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

Support for Alzheimer's caregivers has mostly been in the form of information sharing, skills training, stress-management techniques, peer-support and behavior modification solutions. While important, these external interventions tend to not stick.

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Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found To Predict Alzheimer's

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Alzheimer?S, Disease, Health, Alzheimer?S Disease, Spinal Fluid Test Alzheimer?S, Medicine, Spinal Fluid Test, Healthy Living News

WASHINGTON — Doctors can't tell if Leif Utoft Bollesen's mild memory loss will remain an annoyance or worsen, but experimental checks of the Min...

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Looking For Alzheimer's Answers In All The Wrong Places

Jean Carper | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimer?S, Alzheimer?S Prevention, Medicare, Memory Loss, Eli Lily, Big Pharma, apoe4, Health, Healthy Living News
Jean Carper

Countless neuroscientists have concluded that Alzheimer's and diseases like it are actually a slow-developing chronic diseases, like heart disease and cancer, partly dependent on lifestyle.

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Aging is Old Hat

Gerit Quealy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Aging, University of Texas, Cellular Biology, To Age or Not to Age, Resveratrol, Life Extension, Ucsf, Caloric Restriction, Dr. Leonardo Dicaprio, Alzheimer?S, Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, Aubrey DeGrey, Dr. Stephen Austad, Gordon Lithgow Ph.D., Barshop Institute, Gerontology, Dr. Leonard Guarante, Daf-2, Entertainment News
Gerit Quealy

Summer movies usually mean blockbusters. But the new film To Age or Not to Age belongs more in the realm of myth busters.

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Is Marriage Good for Your Health, NY Times Asks

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Marriage Advantage, Singled Out, Longevity, New York Times Magazine, Marital Conflict, Marital Status, Single Life, Healing, Sex Differences, Bad Marriage, Myths, Tara Parker-Pope, Happiness, Alzheimer?S, Stroke, Health, Sex, Hostility, Methodology, Single With Attitude, Healthy Living News
Bella DePaulo

Coming this Sunday to the New York Times Magazine (already available online here) is an article by Tara Parker-Pope titled, "Is marriage good for your...

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"Not Caused By The Game": the Costs of Taking a Tackle in 1896 and 2009

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 19th-Century, National Football League, Football, Traumatic Brain Injury, Alzheimer?S, Concussions, Nfl Brain Concussion, Nfl, Entertainment News
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"Dementia Risk Seen in Players in N.F.L. Study," The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2009: A study commissioned by the National Football League reports tha...

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