Alzheimers Care and Activities For Quality of Life

The Associated Press just released an article titled,  Alzheimer's drugs double death risk in elderly.  Whoever wrote the headline for the story did a very poor job. The article is actually about anti-psychotic drugs that are often misused to treat Alzheimer's sufferers. The headline could give the impression that the article is about frequently presecribed Alzheimer's drugs like Aricept and Namenda.The misuse of anti-psychotic drugs to treat Alzheimer's patients is an important issue and I...Read Full Story

She wasn't ready to be locked up. She called me 17 times the first day. 'Get me out of here. Get me out of here. Get me out of here'....Alzheimer's Reading Room The daughter of an elderly dementia patient is revealing how her mother was given a potentially dangerous drug — unapproved for treating her condition — in B.C. care facilities. Hilda Penner was given the anti-psychotic drug Loxapine, without consent and despite her daughter's objections, records provided by her family show. "We...Read Full Story

Molotov Another nonsensical campaign from Saatchi Paris. I saw that in the title. But the technology is clearly not ready. coms picture 2951 pencils. atb2005s picture 4937 pencils. I suppose they wanted to make it look like TNT. On World Alzheimers Day Alzheimers Disease International released the new World Alzheimer Report that includes detailed statistics on dementia highlighting the need for action by policy makers and governments across the globe. Alzheimers disaster is no longer...Read Full Story

The hot buzz on the Internet today is about the misuse of anti psychotic drugs to treat Alzheimer's. The use of antipsychotic drugs to "control" difficult behavior, agitation, outbursts and sometimes combative behavior of dementia and Alzheimer's patients is soaring. Sales of newer antipsychotics like Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa have more than tripled to $14 billion, up from $4 billion in 2000, according to currently available statistics. Most of this increase can be traced to...Read Full Story

Alzheimer's patients can't effectively clear sticky plaque in the brain. Neurologists finally have an answer to one of the most important questions about Alzheimer's disease.... Alzheimer's Reading Room In a study published in Science, researchers show that rising brain levels of a plaque-forming substance occur not because the brain makes more of the substance but because it can no longer clear the substance well. The results are likely to aid efforts to improve diagnosis and treatment of...Read Full Story