Our Memories Will Fail As We Age, Right? Wrong.
Even 20-year-olds forget the simplest things Are you over 60 and alarmed as you find yourself forgetting things? I drove down the street yesterday and for...
19 September, 2020
Even 20-year-olds forget the simplest things Are you over 60 and alarmed as you find yourself forgetting things? I drove down the street yesterday and for...
Eight out of every ten of us will have some form of dementia before we die. Here’s another stat that most of us likely don’t...
In a New York Times story, former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s husband, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, has a romance with another woman, and the former...
T.J. Abraham is a big guy who played football throughout high school and college. An offensive linebacker, he loved the tough-man fraternity of the team,...
Meet Dr. Alan Green. He has a tiny but lucrative practice in Queens. His patients travel from around the country to get prescriptions to drugs...
Many of us are caring for--or know someone who is caring for--a family member, often an aging parent. With 10,000 baby boomers turning 70 every...
While Marilyn Friedman had always dreamed that one day she and her mother would have a closer relationship, it was not to be. Her mother...
In 2016 The New York Times devoted a special section to Alzheimer’s. It was a beautifully written story, Fraying at the Edges, by N.R. Kleinfield, that focused on...
Dee Hill begged the 911 dispatcher for help. “My husband accidentally shot me in the stomach". A few feet away, her 76-year old husband, Darrell,...
Dr. Barak Gaster is a Seattle internist who spent three years working with specialists in geriatrics, neurology, palliative care and psychiatry to create a dementia-specific...