Artificial intelligence predicts Alzheimer's
ConclusionBy using fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET of the brain, a deep learning algorithm developed for early prediction of Alzheimer disease achieved 82% specificity at 100% sensitivity, an average of 75.8 months prior to the final diagnosis.Alzheimer's Clock Draw Test -- Detect the Signs of Alzheimer's EarlyCan An Undetected Urinary Tract Infection Can Kill an Alzheimer's PatientAlzheimer's Care Using the Brain to Create HappinessLearn More from Our Award Winning Knowledge Base - Topics PagesMy mom has dementia and is meanHow do you talk and communicate effectively with a dementia patientHow to live with someone who ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 7, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimers alzheimers research Artificial intelligence brain brain imaging health improve diagnosis predict alzheimer science Source Type: blogs
The Importance of Positive Thinking in Dementia Care
You are what you think. How you think and the thoughts you think determine how you feel, perceive the world, and act. You control your brain.By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomThere is a continuum of Alzheimer's caregiving that runs fromBurden to Joy.Can how you think affect your Alzheimer's caregiving effort?Can how you act effect your caregiving effort?Can how you talk and the words you use effect your caregiving effort?Can how you speak to a person living with Alzheimer's effect how they feel and act?You bet it can. Communicating in Alzheimer's WorldThere is a continuum of Alzheimer's caregiving that runs from B...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 1, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: care of dementia patients care of dementia patients at home dementia care elderly dementia care health help alzheimer's help with dementia care memory care facility think positive Source Type: blogs
Dementia Care 10 Practical Suggestions for Coping With Grief
This article discusses10 practical, down-to-earth suggestions for dealing with grief.Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail:Some of the 10 suggestions below were taken from my interview with Dianne Gray, President of the Elisabeth K übler-Ross Foundation. See the end of this article for details about the other sources cited.____________________________Caring for someone during the long decline of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia means enduring many losses. We aren't just taking care of the people we love; we're simultaneously grieving for them. Social workers call this paradox "anticipatory grief."D...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 31, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: care of dementia patients care of dementia patients at home dementia care dementia caregiver elderly dementia care grief health help alzheimer's help with dementia care memory care facility Source Type: blogs
Caregiver Life - "How to Change Bad Behavior to Good Behavior"
Alzheimer's and dementia patients engage in all kinds of behaviors that we the caregivers find alarming, stressful, and wrong.Alzheimer's caregivers have great difficulty accepting the "normal" behaviors that are often expressed by Alzheimer's patients.I use the word normal because what is perfectly normal behavior for a person living with dementia is not always "normal" to us.We have difficulty accepting these behaviors.Article -1 Fact About Alzheimer's That Remains a MysteryBy Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomSubscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail:When a person living with dementia believes something to be true...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 24, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer care Alzheimer's Communication alzheimers help and support alzheimers reading room caregiver life dementia care Source Type: blogs
The Alzheimer's Caregiver Blame Game
When you blame a person living with dementia for something they did you should try to remember - it is not their fault.By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomI was talking to anelderly woman that was having a particularly difficult timedealing with her husbandwho lives with Alzheimer's disease.When we startedtalking before I knew it she was off and running. She talked non-stop for about twenty minutes. She was clearlystressed out. It did not surprise me,I have seen and heard it before.At the core of what she was saying was a single theme,blame.Learn More -3 Ways to End the Dementia Care Blame GameIn Alzheimer's World person...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 24, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: blame care of dementia patients caregiver dementia care dementia help for caregivers elderly dementia care family caregiving health help alzheimer's help with dementia care memory care facility Source Type: blogs
A New Biology of Alzheimer's disease?
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) describe a unique model for the biology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) which may lead to an entirely novel approach for treating the disease.What is the Difference Between Alzheimer ’s and DementiaBy Alzheimer's Reading RoomSubscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail:Researchers describe new biology of Alzheimer's diseaseScientists have known for a long time that two proteins (amyloid and tau) clump and accumulate in the brains of Alzheimer patients, and this accumulation is thought to cause nerve cell injury that results in dementia.Recent work by these BUSMre...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 24, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: Alzheimer's disease biology brain dementia memory science TIA1 tau Source Type: blogs
Why Do People Living with Alzheimer's Want to Go Home?
Do Alzheimer's patients want to go home? Or are they longing for a time and place when they were safe and secure and knew everyone's name and face?My mother repeatedly said she wanted to move back home to a place where she had not lived for over 60 years - South Philadelphia.The sound of her voice, the look on her face, the look of confusion and longing, often made me feel deeply sad.Water is Invisible and Disconcerting to Dementia PatientsBy Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomListen Now or Continue ReadingSaying I want to go home, to a place from the past,is a common occurrence among the deeply forgetful (people living wi...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 23, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: Alzheimer's podcast alzheimers care dementia care dementia help for caregivers family caregiving help alzheimer's help with dementia help with dementia care memory care youtube Source Type: blogs
Alzheimer's Care, The Importance of Face-to-Face Communication
Does face to face conversation have a positive effect on attitude and behavior among the elderly and persons living with dementia?By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomI took care of my mother from November 17, 2003 until the day she went to Heaven on May 25, 2012. 3,112 days.When it all started she was "meaner than a junkyard dog". But then over time, she became sweeter, nicer, kinder, and more alive.To this day I continually ask myself, Why?How I Used My Forehead to Calm My Mother Living with Alzheimer'sWas it the exercise in the gym? The daily injections of bright light? Or, was it socialization, daily face to face comm...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 22, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's care caring for dementia patients at home communication dementia care dementia help for caregivers family caregiving help alzheimer's help with dementia care Source Type: blogs
How Do You Get an Alzheimer's Patient to Cooperate
What to do when dementia patient refuses care.By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomOne of the biggest problems we face as caregivers isHow to get an Alzheimer's Patient to cooperate.In order to get an Alzheimer's Patient to cooperate you need to make some changes in the way you communicate.If you continue to try and explain why you want cooperation you are usually using too many words.Trying to convince a person living with dementia rarely works.Instead of convincing you need to learn how to use fewer words; and,how to guide your loved one.Here are 7 good articles that should help you accomplish this mission.Subscribe to ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 22, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's care home alzheimer's cooperation care of dementia patient dementia care how to get cooperation Source Type: blogs
3 Questions Every Alzheimer ’s Caregiver Should Ask About Palliative Care
We described palliative care as “aggressive symptom management for maximum quality of life at the present time.”The goal is to treat and remove, or reduce, symptoms that are bothering the person who is deeply forgetful. Symptoms such as pain, or problems like urinary tract infections, are handled in ways that make sense to the person living inAlzheimer ’s World.Learn More -Alzheimer ’s WorldIn the beginning of the journey, when the person is only a little forgetful, diseases and health problems are managed so that the body and mind continue to support each otherFOR MAXIMUM QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE NOW.How to Get Answ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 18, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimers care alzheimers caregiving dementia help for caregivers end of life care family caregiving help alzheimer's help with dementia care memory care facility nursing home palliative care Source Type: blogs
How I Used My Forehead to Calm My Mother Living with Alzheimer's
Caring for a person living with Alzheimer's is difficult. Sometimes you just don't know what to do. Imagine my mother saying to me - "get out, I can take care of myself". Imagine what that felt like?I took care of my mother, Dotty, for eight and a half years, 3,112 days.I know what itfeels like to be a caregiver.I understand.One of the biggest, most hurtful problems I faced was when she would tell me -"get out, I don't need you, I can take care of myself".There I was. I had quit my job, dropped out of the world,and I was taking care of her 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When she said those words it felt likeshe didn't ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 17, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimers care alzheimers mother calm an alzheimer's patient dementia care family alzheimers health help alzheimer's mom Source Type: blogs
Dementia Patient Wears the Same Clothes Over and Over
If you'd met him late in his dementia, you'd invariably see him in a stained plaid shirt and baggy, wrinkled gray trousers -- day after day after day.By Paula Spencer ScottAlzheimer's Reading RoomMy father had always been a careful dresser.After he retired from his life of white shirts and ties, he wore a full rainbow of golf shirts and owned more cardigans than Mister Rogers.Afraid of Making the Wrong Caregiver Moves?But if you'd met him late in his dementia, you'd invariably see him in a stained plaid shirt and baggy, wrinkled gray trousers -- day after day after day.Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail:The wor...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 13, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimers caregiving care of dementia patients dementia help for caregivers family caregiving help alzheimer's help with dementia help with dementia care wearing the same cloths Source Type: blogs
You Cannot Leave a Person Living with Alzheimer's Alone
It is an enormous sacrifice but you cannot leave a person living with dementia at home alone. They just can't deal with it.By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomAt a certain point in the development of dementia, as the dementia progresses, a person cannot be left alone.Dementia patientsdo not "cope" well when left alone.Learn More -Did You Know Dementia Patients Get Agitated When Left Alone?Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail:Our reader Blackfin66 left thisinteresting comment and question under the article,When Alzheimer's Patients Say Mean Things, What do you do?Bob,I'd especially like to hear how you dealt wit...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 13, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer can dementia patient live alone care for dementia patients caring for an alzheimer patient at home dementia care help home alone memory care facility nursing home senior care Source Type: blogs
Dementia Care, 4 Suggestions on How to Take the Car Keys Away from a Person Living with Dementia
Our expert Rita Jablonski wrote a very useful article with 4 suggestions on how to take the care keys away from a person living with Alzheimer's or a related dementia.This is a majorproblem for most caregivers and often leads to a lot ofanxiety, stress and arguments.Alzheimer's Care, Don't ArgueAmazingly, Dotty often told me she hired an attorney, and he was going to get her license back for her so she could start driving again. She was still telling people she was driving every day for years after I took her car keys away.Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail:Here is an excerpt from her article.1.Take a “break...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 11, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimers care tips alzheimers driving care of dementia patients help alzheimer help dementia taking away car keys dementia taking away the car keys suggestions for caregivers Source Type: blogs
Psychotropic drug use is common in Alzheimer ’s disease
This study was part of the nationwide register-based MEDALZ study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland. The study included all 70,718 persons diagnosed with Alzheimer ’s disease in Finland during 2005-2011. Researchers from Utrecht University also contributed to this study.The results were published in European Neuropsychopharmacology.CitationKim Orsel, Heidi Taipale, Anna-Maija Tolppanen, Marjaana Koponen, Antti Tanskanen, Jari Tiihonen, Helga Gardarsdottir, Sirpa Hartikainen. "Psychotropic drugs use and psychotropic polypharmacy among persons with Alzheimer's disease".European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2018; D...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 2, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer Alzheimers Dementia alzheimers risks health memory test psychotropic drugs research science sleep Source Type: blogs
