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Alzheimers and Dementia Blog - Alzheimers Association of Northern California and Northern Nevada Blog

Alzheimer's and dementia caregiver tips / Holidays / Stefanie, family care specialist

November 22, 2013

Helping Alzheimer’s Families – Including Your Own – Survive the Holidays

Holidays can be challenging for people with Alzheimer’s disease, and can be a particularly stressful time for caregivers. The added layer of seemingly required holiday rituals, family and other social obligations, may completely tear...

Alzheimer's and dementia caregiver voices / Angie, family caregiver / Profiles / Women and Alzheimer's

November 22, 2013

Portrait of Care: Angie

Angie is a caregiver for her husband John, who is in the early middle stage of Alzheimer’s disease. While John is still able to do many things, such as shower, brush his teeth and...

Alzheimer's and dementia caregiver voices / Alzheimer's champions / Dr. Edgerly, Executive Director / News and notes / Profiles / Research

November 20, 2013

SATURDAY: The Genius of Marian in San Francisco

I want to tell all of you about an event I’ll be attending next week that I am very excited about: the Bay Area premiere of a documentary film call The Genius of Marian....

Alzheimer's and dementia caregiver voices / News and notes

November 14, 2013

Caregiving is never easy – join the #lifeasacaregiver tweetathon

November is National Family Caregiver Month. Join the #lifeasacaregiver conversation. Tweets about “#lifeasacaregiver”

Alzheimer's and dementia caregiver voices / News and notes / Profiles

November 12, 2013

Portrait of Care: Jim

Jim is a caregiver for his mom, who was diagnosed with dementia in 2011 – but she has been showing signs for more than 15 years. He handles all of her day to day...

Alzheimer's and dementia caregiver voices / News and notes / Newsletter / Profiles / Women and Alzheimer's

November 6, 2013

Portrait of Care: Sushma

Sushma is a caregiver for her dad, who in 2008 was diagnosed with Vascular Dementia and in 2012 received the news that the disease had progressed to the later stages of Alzheimer’s, leaving him...

Alzheimer's research news / Dr. Edgerly, Executive Director / Newsletter / Research

October 29, 2013

New Investigator Research Grant: Dr. Judy Pa, UCSF

We recently awarded a New Investigator Grant to Judy Pa, Ph.D., assistant professor, UCSF Memory and Aging Center for her study “Neurobiological Changes in Network Function and Amyloid Deposition in Alzheimer’s Disease.” In recent...