Aspen Center for Integral Health 2006 Summer Symposium 'A Better Brain - Alzheimer's Disease is Preventable'
presentation. Links to the other eight parts are provided below:
From the Alzheimer's Association Greater Richmond Chapter...
Unmasking Early Stage Alzheimer's
Disease
Apple Science Profiles - Unmasking Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease podcast...
Protecting Dementia Patients
Bill
Rep. Allen Peake presenting HB 457, the Alzheimers and Dementia patients protection bill, United States...
Alzheimer's Disease-Safe Return
Program
Phyllis Lane's safe return story featured on WHAS in Louisville, KY raises awareness of the Safe Return program
for Alzheimer's patients. Alzheimer's patients are prone to wandering away and the en...
Mediterranean diet and staying
active - lower risk for Alzheimer's
Eating a Mediterranean-type diet and staying active both linked to a lower risk for Alzheimer's disease...
Clinical Studies
Participation
ICAD 2009 Press Room Video - Ulrika Akenine discusses why people with Alzheimer's and their relatives
participate in clinical studies in order to further inform the clinical study recruitment process...
Raising Money for Research -
Australia
Glenn Rees, National Chief Executive Officer of Alzheimers Australia, says his organisation is incredibly
grateful to Richard for his significant pledge to support dementia research....
Melbourne developer and adventurer Richard Buxton flew a light plane and sailed a small yacht around Australia
and has written a book about it. All proceeds go to Alzheimer's research in Australia...
The Coconut Oil Story
Last year there was a story about a doctor who found that coconut oil appeared to help her husband who suffers
from early onset dementia. This video is an interview with the doctor and her husband,, posted on YouTube this
month...
The direct and indirect costs of Alzheimer's and other dementias amount to more than $148 billion annually. The
Mann Foundation has made a multi-million dollar pledge to Mount Sinai's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center...
Presentation on communicating more effectively with people with dementia...
Dogs &
Dementia
News story about Alzheimer's patients finding comfort/therapy from dogs...
Reasons to be
Optimistic
HBO's John Hoffman talks about The Alzheimer's Project and how there is now genuine reason to be optimistic
about the future...
CNN: Marijuana & Alzheimer's Disease
The active ingredient in marijuana may stall decline from Alzheimer's disease, research suggests. Scientists
showed a synthetic version of the compound may reduce inflammation associated with Alzheimer's disease...
Medication Abuse and Alzheimer's Disease
Even as you view this message thousands of elderly dx with Alzheimer's disease are being given psychotropic
medications without proper treatment ...
Higher cholesterol levels might lead to
dementia
A new study reveals a correlation between cholesterol levels and the chances of developing dementia...
Alzheimer's Drug Study - NJN News Healthwatch
Report
Experts are hopeful that a new drug that is in late-phase clinical trials will
combat Alzheimers Disease, which is a disorder that robs a patient of memory and mobility...
What is
dementia?
This video gives a brief outline of what we mean by dementia...
Areas of the Brain affected in
Dementia
This video gives an overview of the main regions of the brain important in dementia...
Symptoms of Dementia and the
Temporal Lobe
A brief user-friendly explanation of what happens as the temporal lobes are affected by dementia...
Frontal Lobe Damage in Dementia
& Picks Disease
What happens as the frontal lobes of the brain are affected by dementia. This video is particulalrly useful for
those looking after people with frontal dementias such as Picks disease but also those...
Symptoms of Dementia - Parietal
Lobe Damage
A brief user friendly description of what happens when the Parietal Lobes are affected in dementia...
Symptoms of Dementia - the Limbic
System
A video about what happens when the limbic system of the brain is affected by dementia...
Helpful Activity in
Dementia
Some suggestions about how activity may help someone with dementia.
Sleep Problems in
Dementia
This video describes some of the sleep problems which may occur in dementia and some techniques to try.
Stress Reducing Techniques in
Dementia
This video explores some ways of reducing the stress of dementia to both sufferer and
carer...
Symptoms of Alzheimer's
Disease
Caregiving & Alzheimer's
Disease
Alzheimer's disease usually affects people over the age of 65. Learn what it is like to be a caregiver for a
family member who has Alzheimer's in this disease condition video...
Senile Dementia - Health Byte
Senile Dementia is a steady decline of mental faculties in a person, primarily elderly, for various reasons
including Alzheimer's disease and strokes. Watch this video for more information on this...
Living With Dementia -
Caregiving
Two carers talk about their experiences of caring for someone with dementia. With advice,
help and support for anyone newly diagnosed with dementia, worried they have early signs of dementia, or
ca...