Alzheimers

Alzheimers is a terrible disease that just takes the persons life away as they know it. Our brother-in-law who is only 77 has been diagnosed with it and he his memory has been bad for a couple of years already. Our sister-in-law who is only 71, has also bee diagnosed with it and I know her memory has been bad for a couple years also. They have medicines they give them to supposedly help and prolong the effects of the disease but it is really only a temporary fix since there is no cure. It is so sad to see loved ones deteriorating before your eyes. It really bothers my husband as he is 6 years older than his brother. There is a good chance he will outlive his younger brother and he just lost his older brother who was very close to him.

Alzheimers, the Dreaded Disease

The people who bought our home when we downsized, were not quite of retirement age yet. They had considered a condo first but our big house was just what they wanted with a big lawn and 3 garages. He worked very hard to landscape it and changed the double garage to a triple garage to house their trailer and pickup so they would have it to go to Texas in the winter. Then she began to have funny symptoms and was diagnosed with alzheimers at about 63. She has changed rapidly and now they are selling the house and moving into a retirement apartment. He is not ready for that but it is necessary to keep taking care of her. It is so sad.

High Tech Monitors for Alzheimers

New York's Mount Sinai Shool of Medicine is heading up a study. They plan to recruit 600 people over the age of 75 to help test in-home "kiosks". They will turn on automaically to administer monthly cognitive exams. It will be a video of a smiling scientist who appears on-screen to talk participants through such classic tests as reading a string of words and then, repeating how many they recall, or seeing how quickly they complete connect-the-dot patterns. They did this in Oregon. It was a pilot study of the motion sensors which tracked 14 partipants in their upper 80's for almost a year. They found half had mild cognitive impairment, an Alzheimer's precursor, and half were healthy. The National Institutes of Health received a grant to study 300 homes and 112 are being monitored already.