Caregiver Resource Center
Welcome to your online Caregiver Resource Center. We hope the tools here with help you through the entire passage of this disease: from the first signs of dementia, through the learning process, adjusting to change, getting help inside and outside the home, supporting you as you face end-of-life issues, and working through your grief when your loved one is gone. It is our privilege to share this journey with you.
December Calendar
Click Here to Download PDF Version of Calendar 12-18 calendar
Party With a Purpose
Party with a Purpose Video: https://youtu.be/tDhMjfiH7TA For Tickets Click here: https://thepartywithapurposefoundation.org/ticket-paypal/
Oct Calendar of Events
Printable PDF: 10-18 Calendar
Researchers discover connection between circadian rhythm and aggression
Researchers discover connection between circadian rhythm and aggression May 2, 2018 University of Copenhagen https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180502104100.htm Research Window: A hypothalamic circuit for the circadian control of aggression 09 April...
Key factors to support quality of life in dementia
Key factors to support quality of life in dementia A robust research analysis has identified what factors can be targeted to support people to live as well as possible with dementia May 9, 2018 University of Exeter...
What It’s Like to Be an Alzheimer’s Caregiver
https://parade.com/612534/mtaylor-2/what-its-like-to-be-an-alzheimers-caregiver/
Baseball Brings Back Memories
Baseball Brings Back Memories. They call it "sports reminiscence therapy" but you may know it as sitting on the front porch with a cool drink and shooting the breeze. Michael Ego is Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Connecticut Read...
One of the most promising drugs for Alzheimer’s disease fails in clinical trials
By MELISSA HEALY JAN 09, 2018 LA TImes One of the most promising drugs for Alzheimer's disease fails in clinical trials
Tapping the Creative Brain for People With Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases
By PAULA SPENCER SCOTT @PSpencerScott AUGUST 11, 2017 Tapping the Creative Brain for People With Alzheimer's and Related Diseases
Heavy drinking in middle age linked to memory loss
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heavy-drinking-in-middle-age-linked-to-memory-loss-in-men-2-201401176984Jan 17, 2014: Heavy drinking in middle age linked to memory loss Dr. Howard LeWine / Harvard Medical School
Jan 22, 2014: In patient vs Observation Status NBC Nightly News
Gifts from past year resonate in the new
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alzheimers-disease/expert-blog/dementia-care-reflections/BGP-20085458/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alzheimers-caregiving&pubDate=01/23/2014&xid=nl_MayoClinicAlzheimersCaregiving_20140123Jan 26, 2014: Gifts from past year resonate in the new Angela Lunde / Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Blog