A SUPPORT group set up by a grieving girl during the lockdown has helped hundreds of other people who have lost loved ones to dementia. Julie Child had watched Alzheimer’s disease gradually transform her mother into an almost unrecognizable person while...
MONTREAL, Dec.15 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – More than half a million Canadians are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related form of dementia, and with a rapidly aging population, that number is expected to double by 2031. Now, a This...
New study gives Canadians the chance to test for the disease and offer their perspective on the impact of the results on their lives MONTREAL, Dec.15 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – More than half a million Canadians are currently living with Alzheimer’s...
The pride is evident when Licking Heights girls’ basketball coach Sonya Glover talks about her mother, Virginia Churn. But so is the pain when she recounts how Alzheimer’s disease took the woman she knew away from her family. It all started...
By Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech | December 15, 2021 Atlanta-based neurologist Lenora Higginbotham explains how her grandmother’s journey with Parkinson’s disease inspired her current career in neurology. This article is part of series Diversity and dementia, produced by Being Patient with support from...
NEW HAVEN – Faith Tremblay and her mother Lisa Tremblay were tired, but “very tired” after delivering 5,215 toys donated to Yale Children’s Hospital on Tuesday morning as part of Faith’s 4th Annual Toy Drive . “Even though we’re tired today...
Just over 60% of women report cognitive difficulties during their transition to menopause, write Caroline Gurvich, Chen Zhu and Shalini Arunogiri, of Monash University in this article republished from The Conversation. For almost two-thirds of women, menopause is accompanied by an...