Coping with Alzheimer’s

A man made a documentary of his mother and her decent into Alzheimer’s. Ed White filmed his mother going through the process start to finish as an observer, son, and caregiver. PBS released a short clip of the documentary.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/learning-cope-alzheimers/

5 new facts about Alzheimer’s

A couple trends researcher’s have noticed about various health choices and their connections to Alzheimer’s.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/09/10/5-things-researchers-learned-about-alzheimers-this-year/

Medication Relation

The Los Angeles Times posted an article yesterday linking users of anxiety medications to Alzheimer’s patients.

http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-sn-anxiety-drug-alzheimers-20140909-story.html

Walk for Alzhiemer’s

Yesterday Portland Oregon, hundreds affected by Alzheimer’s in some way or another came together.

http://koin.com/2014/09/07/walkers-gather-in-bid-to-end-alzheimers-disease/

Genes leading to Alzheimer’s

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/with-women-perhaps-facing-higher-risk-of-alzheimers-female-scientists-unite/2014/09/03/2aa0506c-28ab-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html

The Washington post just posted an article about some of the connects found in genetics to Alzheimer’s. Help us find some of these genetic triggers by taking our test at http://www.mindcrowd.org