Supporting family caregivers improves dementia care, reduces avoidable hospitalizations, and helps patients stay at home ...

Daily interactions with friends, even through something as simple as a text message, may reduce momentary loneliness for caregivers tending to a family member with dementia. Providing care for a loved ...

Benjamin Rose offering $50 gift cards to caregivers who participate in 90-minute Zoom sessions focused on improving support ...

Alzheimer’s disease puts a significant burden on not only the nearly seven million people who have been diagnosed with it, but also the caregivers supporting them. More than 11 million Americans ...

Even brief, friendly interactions can lift the emotional weight of dementia caregiving, with new research showing that connections, especially casual ones, offer powerful protection against loneliness ...

Nearly 7 million American seniors are living with Alzheimer's dementia, placing a huge strain on both personal caregivers and the U.S. healthcare system, according to a new Alzheimer's Association ...

A University of Iowa faculty member has been awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National ...

November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and Family Caregivers Month. To mark these events, the Alzheimer’s Association is encouraging people to lend a helping hand to the 656,000 New ...

AFTERNOON THIS MONTH IS NATIONAL FAMILY CAREGIVERS AND NATIONAL ALZHEIMER’S AWARENESS MONTH. THE ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SOUTH CAROLINA CHAPTER IS HIGHLIGHTING THE CHALLENGES CAREGIVERS FACE. WE’RE ...

Carla Romagnano knows the weight of caregiving all too well. The Idaho resident is struggling to balance her full-time day ...

Alzheimer’s disease is one of our greatest plagues. It’s the most common form of dementia, responsible for loss of memory and cognitive abilities that affect daily life. Seven million Americans and 55 ...

Music motivates and inspires and is a powerful and nonthreatening medium and therefore, people with Alzheimer’s react ...