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Will We Have A New Quick Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Disease?

The dreaded brain disease, Alzheimer’s, is considered difficult to diagnose. For one thing, it comes on gradually in most cases and initially has no physical symptoms like pain or trouble moving around. Doctors usually first hear that a person has some problems with short term memory. Not much happens until…

Mikol DavisAugust 6, 2024

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Alzheimer’s Disease And Medication Myths

The FDA has approved various medications in hopes of providing anything that can truly change the course of Alzheimer’s disease. But medications have failed to do so. No medication so far stops the disease nor cures it. One consistent finding in all the research studies that precede FDA approval of…

Mikol DavisAugust 10, 2023

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What Does It Mean When We Say An Elder Has “Diminished Capacity”?

What Does It Mean When We Say An Elder Has “Diminished Capacity”? Lawyers may throw around the term “diminished capacity” in dealing with elders because they have to be aware of elders signing things they may not understand. Lawyers are supposed to protect against that. Financial advisors use the term…

Carolyn RosenblattJuly 23, 2022

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Aging Parents With Dementia: Preparing For The Long Goodbye

It seems that we hear of yet another family facing dementia just about every day at AgingParents.com. They want to understand options about how to pay for care, what to do with sibling fights about the elders, and they seek answers for many related legal questions. In the midst of…

Carolyn RosenblattJuly 2, 2022

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Impaired Aging Parents Managing Real Estate Who’s Minding the Store?

Impaired Aging Parents Managing Real Estate Who’s Minding the Store? We’re seeing it more and more now at AgingParents.com: elders as landlords who can’t do the management job any longer. Sometimes it’s the adult children who bring the issue to our attention. They see Dad failing maintain those rental houses…

Carolyn RosenblattApril 12, 2022

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Hard Conversations About End Of Life Wishes: Should Young Adults Be Included?

Hard Conversations About End Of Life Wishes: Should Young Adults Be Included? Talking about one’s end of life wishes is typically uncomfortable for most. We think of the subject as one for our aging parents to have with us when they are “old”. We don’t usually think it is a…

Carolyn RosenblattApril 11, 2022

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Heed These Warnings About Aging Parents' Medications

Is your aging parent one of the many battling Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia and taking medication? Dr. Elizabeth Landsverk, a Silicon Valley, California-based geriatrician, recently quoted in an article in The Mercury News, strongly advises against elders taking certain everyday medications as they undo any benefits of…

Carolyn RosenblattJune 9, 2017

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Carolyn RosenblattMay 28, 2014

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Can Diet Help You Live Long and Avoid Alzheimer’s?

Here's something you may not know: 5.2 million people across this country have dementia or Alzheimer's Disease. We don't know what causes it and we don't know how to stop it. But, there are things that probably can help us prevent this brain killing disease. There is increasing evidence that…

Mikol DavisApril 11, 2014

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