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 Most people know about this, but may not be aware of the extent or severity of the problem... "Not long after his wife was diagnosed w...

Reposted from 2014.

Anyone who has had a demented parent or loved one will recognize the utility of this simple intervention. Via the pics subreddit, wher...

Auditors working in the Minnesota courts have exposed problems ranging from dubious fees to outright thefts by people appointed to safegu...

Useful information from the Hospice Patients Alliance : Many families may be surprised when a terminally ill (and usually calm) family me...

An article at Long+Short addresses the question "Can music offer the key to treating dementia?" In most cases of dementia, rega...

YouTube link . What would happen if you combined a nursing home with a preschool? Via ViralNova , with a tip of the blogging cap to Ki...

Excerpts from an essay at Aeon : Memory becomes like a flickering signal from a faraway shortwave radio station: people can do and say th...

As reported in the prestigious Nature Medicine : At the cognitive level, systemic administration of young blood plasma into aged mice imp...

Excerpts from Complexities of Choosing an End Game for Dementia : Mr. Medalie’s directive also specifies something more unusual: If he dev...

I have been recurrently frustrated by the inability of cable television and electronic device makers to offer a remote control suitable f...

From a story in today's Washington Post : At the time, he dismissed the incident as a bizarre memory lapse, perhaps a byproduct of his...

YouTube link .  This video is a production of Music&Memory , whose mission is "to improve the quality of life for the elderly a...

A group of 45-year-old guys discuss where they should meet for dinner. Finally they agree on Kelley's Restaurant because the waitresse...

The photo above comes from a StarTribune article about a "mini-cog[nition]" test that was recently given to veterans and revea...

I believe I started "rating" or assigning "grades" to books and movies about 30 years ago, as I was reading my way throu...

From a column at the New York Times discussing mental fitness in the elderly: Many researchers believe that human intelligence or brainpo...

I like this painting.  It's by an English painter, Charles Spencelayh (1865-1958) Many of his subjects were of domestic scenes, pa...

An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path. He wasn't sure of which direction to go, and he'd forgotten both where he was trav...

He's a robotic seal developed by Japanese researchers to help dementia patients feel that they have companionship and a feeling of sec...