700 Club’s Pat Robertson stated this week that divorce is okay when one of the spouses has Alzheimer’s Disease. Although most marriage vows contain the phrase “for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health til death do us part”, during a...
Question: My mother is currently in skilled nursing following a recent hospitalization after a fall. She has Alzheimer’s Disease and I don’t feel that we can care for her at home after her discharge. Will Medicare cover the cost of her care in an...
I’m sure you’ve heard the statistics before: 60% of those persons who suffer from Alzheimer’s will wander at some point in their disease process; 92% of those persons with autism tend to wander. Those are very scary statistics. How can we be sure...
On Golden Pond – a Lesson in Dementia Awareness? by Shelley Last night I watched On Golden Pond starring Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn. It also featured Jane Fonda. I ended up crying for an hour. I hadn’t seen the movie since it’s release in...
Lately I’ve seen a lot of articles on the possibility of being able to diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease at an earlier stage in the disease. Now, a new article, published on the website www.nhs.uk speaks of an American study that stated that brain scans may be...