Alzheimers Care and Activities For Quality of Life

Alzheimer's Memory Walk When I was a kid, we walked in the MS Walk A Thon, and the Crop Walk for Hunger. Now there is the Alzheimers Memory Walk. The Alzheimers Memory Walk, is just like any other walk for charity cause. You agree to get sponsors, who will pledge you to walk a certain amount of miles. You walk the miles, and the money you raise goes to help fund Alzheimers research, and care for those who suffer from this debilitating disease. As a nurse, for 21 years, and having a... Read Full Story

All in all, we are faced obviously with a peculiar disease process, physician Alois Alzheimer wrote in 1901 Read Full Story

Soothing Sounds......Rain falling on the roof ..... Ocean waves breaking on the shore .... Bubbling Brook .....We all have our favorites. When the person with some form of Dementia becomes agitated, there is usually some sound that will trigger a happy mood. Maybe its a baby gurgling, a cat purring, a picture of a dog, multi-color lights. Many of these people grew up with radio, a lot more than television. It was their livelihood. Music was a huge part of their life. Most of the men and... Read Full Story

From the page: "This new study highlights the importance of certain soluble proteins, called cytokines, in Alzheimers disease. The study focuses on one of these cytokines, tumor necrosis factor-alpha(TNF), a critical component of the brains immune system. Normally, TNF finely regulates the transmission of neural impulses in the brain. The authors hypothesized that elevated levels of TNF in Alzheimers disease interfere with this regulation. To reduce elevated TNF, the authors gave patients an... Read Full Story

Reversing the affects of Alzheimer’s is one of the greatest challenges modern medicine has been trying to overcome. A new article in Science Daily describes the use of anti-TNF therapeutics as a new potential treatment option. By injecting these drugs into a patient, remarkable improvements have been seen in just a few minutes.  While it is not a complete reversal or cure, it may lead us down the path to creating new medicines that will provide even greater results. For more details, go to... Read Full Story