Tag Archives: dementia

Healthy Intersections Podcast: Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementias

By | June 19, 2024
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June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month. On this edition of the Healthy Intersections Podcast, we recognize Alzheimer’s Awareness Month by hosting a round-table discussion between Dr. Lisa Lines, principal investigator for the RTI Rarity project; Chloe McGlynn, a research public health analyst at RTI; Dr. Vicki Johnson-Lawrence, social epidemiologist and community-engaged participatory researcher at… Read More »

Blood-Based Biomarker Tests Address Unmet Need in Alzheimer’s Disease Care

By | September 1, 2022
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The Alzheimer’s Association’s 2021 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report [PDF] shares that currently, six million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, a number that has increased 145% since the turn of the century.  Around the world, there are 50 million people living with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia. Only a quarter of would-be patients… Read More »

Becoming dementia friendly: Less stigma, more inclusion, better care

By | November 11, 2020
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With a growing recognition of the toll that dementia takes on individuals, families, and communities, there is a movement to prepare our society to better meet the needs of people living with dementia. This movement is referred to as becoming “dementia friendly,” and it can reduce stigma, increase inclusiveness, and improve care. A family example… Read More »

There is still much we don’t know about dementia and wandering

By | November 4, 2020
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John bowled in a Friday night league for 20 years. It was often the highlight of his week – a chance to spend time with friends, blow off some steam, and enjoy some friendly competition. Now 75 and living with dementia, John has tried more than once to walk to a bowling alley that no… Read More »

BRIEF: Out-of-pocket costs for Alzheimer’s disease

By | July 26, 2018
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Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) affect about 5.7 million people in the US. Although most of those affected are covered by Medicare, many of the medical costs are not covered by insurance and must be borne by patients and their families. Total costs of care for ADRD have been estimated at more than $277… Read More »

The Childhood Roots of Health Inequity: Part 4 – Dr. Jennifer Manly

By | April 27, 2017
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This post is the final one in our 4-part series focusing on presentations that were delivered at a special panel session at APHA16 on the childhood roots of health inequity [part 1, part 2, part 3]. Our fourth presenter, Dr. Jennifer Manly, is Associate Professor of Neuropsychology in Neurology at the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and the… Read More »

Avoiding Anticholinergic Drugs May Reduce Alzheimer’s Risk

By | March 27, 2021
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I’ll never forget the time Granddaddy tried to eat my hand. At least that’s how it seemed to me at age six. In reality, he’d simply confused my hand with the straw sticking out of the milkshake we’d brought to him at the nursing home. By that point in his early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, the Granddaddy… Read More »