Training helps Alzheimer’s
caregivers cope
By Lauran Neergaard
The findings are stunning: Offering simple training to people struggling to care for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease not only eases their burden — it even can keep patients out of nursing homes for an extra one and a half years.
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Medical leave program generally popular
WASHINGTON —
The Labor Department, after sifting through 15,000 comments on the 14-year-old Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), said it’s working well but causing problems for some industries that say too many employees are taking intermittent, unscheduled time off.
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Family, friends providing
informal care
By Rita Price
COLUMBUS, Ohio —
The old man lives in a sunny front room, where a privacy curtain makes for a wall and vegetables destined for the summer garden sprout in little pots on the windowsill.
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As U.S. boomers age, concern mounts over who will provide care
By David Crary
NEW YORK —
As the huge U.S. baby-boomer generation surges toward retirement age, an unsettling issue grows ever more pressing: finding the work force to tend to the millions of people who will someday need ongoing care because of physical and mental frailties.
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Personality changes may help detect form
of dementia
A simple personality test could help doctors detect dementia with Lewy bodies, a form of dementia often confused with Alzheimer’s disease, sooner, according to a study in a recent issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Siblngs not facing the facts when it comes to parent care
By Dr. Karen Gail Lewis
“I need to get a dog so it can mother me,” says Sara, smiling through her tears.
Sara is a 51 year old single woman who has been losing her mother to Alzheimer’s for seven years. In this past year, though, there has been a serious decline.
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