Adventures with Dementia

I know I've posted about this before but I still have very mixed feelings about the importance of a quick diagnosis. Someone asked onlin...

I have touched on this before, but I still feel strongly that the emphasis placed on early diagnosis of dementia is not necessarily helpful....

Throughout the 11 or 12 years it took to arrive at a diagnosis of my wife's condition, all sorts of possibilities were examined. Among t...

I've read online about a disturbing way in which multiple drugs are sometimes prescribed for people living with dementia. This is how i...

There's a post today from the Alzheimer's Society:   http://forum.alzheimers.org.uk/showthread.php?63405-Statin-found-to-prevent-mem...

I am interested in some of the ideas discussed by Dr Mary Newport, and  her website is worth a look for anyone interested in alleviating dem...

The passage quoted in the previous post continues with a description of the mother's distress and confusion  - she is left to cry hersel...

Mom hasn't been feeling good the last couple days, I wonder if her medication has something to do with it. She takes: Propulsid ...

If S was on one of  the drugs used to treat people with dementia  -  which she could be  -  I and the professionals would no doubt be absolu...

A recent article  suggests another fairly common drug that might be useful in treating Alzheimer's (as well as in treating Schizophrenia...

This will be re ally familiar to anyone in my situation.  Some research is announced which seems to promise, at some point in the distant fu...

Well, not quite true but it does seem to be the case that the best known drugs used to treat dementia symptoms are pretty poor. People carr...

Guess what? The meeting with the Young Onset people was very positive. First they saw S at her most dire as she had fallen and hit her hea...

The media are full of this today. It's not a hoax in the sense that there isn't a massive problem further on down the road as more ...

And that's one of the most difficult things that you have to live with if you're caring for someone with this condition. At a recent...