Mobile Mirror, Mobile Mirror on the Brain: Mind, Maps, and Memory

Room: Potomac 1-3 Tuesday, December 13, 2016 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Description ** This event requires a separate registration and add-on fee. It is NOT included with General Conference Passes.” But, if you use our special code: DISRUPT16, you can attend at no charge. REGISTER HERE A Disruptive Women in Health Care Roundtable: Tackling Brain Health Women. We bring home the bacon and freeze our eggs. We learn from an early age how to multi-task (in heels while walking backwards—you have to be of a certain age to get that one).  We take care of things, and people. That’s what we do.  But what happens to us, to our brains, as we are busy taking care of everyone and everything?  Women are twice as likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s as men, making up two thirds of the 5.4 million people in the United States slowly dying with the disease; and women are two thirds of the caregivers. Once women reach 65, they have twice the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s than breast cancer. The burden multiplies when you consider caregivers. They frequently put their careers on hold and drain their own savings to provide care. One in five switches to part-time work, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost wages and benefits. Brain disease goes far beyond Alzheimer’s of course.  There are so many women who are on the bleeding edge of this work—in the labs and in the think tanks, in the trenches and in our homes. Come meet the brains behind numerous innova...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Brain Health Source Type: blogs