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More than two-thirds of the 5.4 million Americans with Alzheimer’s are women. One reason for this, we believed, is because women live longer than men. But now researchers at Stanford University know there’s something else going on.  They found women ...

Find your purpose in life.  Certainly, it’s great advice for anyone, but now there’s evidence that it could also be helpful for someone with signs of Alzheimer’s. The decade-long study by the Memory and Aging Project at Rush University in ...

Family members of someone with Alzheimer’s know how frustrating and upsetting it can be when that person can’t recall shared experiences. Memory loss is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease, as proteins that contribute to cell death and tissue ...

People who care for someone with Alzheimer’s often deal with a great deal of stress, which can cause other serious mental and physical health problems.  That leads me to an interesting research project I read about recently. It is a simple ...