Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease at the age of 52, Kate Clark became the first person with Alzheimer’s Disease to be on the board of Alzheimer’s New Zealand.

Interview with Lauren Kessler who wrote the book ‘Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s’

Kate Mulgrew and her mother Joan Mulgrew talk about living with Alzheimer’s disease on Lifetime’s Women’s Health in 2002…

Further interview with Kate…
Part One

Part Two

Got some time to sit and listen. Then check out these two interesting radio broadcasts.
“Remembering Alzheimer’s: A Special Report” was broadcast on The Infinite Mind during Novemebr. Featuring American Public Media’s Brian Newhouse, it looks at effects of Alzheimer’s Disease on his father. The broadcast also includes conversations with Dr. Peter Reed, Senior Director of Programs for the National Alzheimer’s Association and leading researcher Dr. Marilyn Albert, Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Plus 47 year old James Smith, a former executive with American Express, who offers a first person account of living with Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Each year the Fisher Foundation sponsor the Mayoral Conference on Alzheimer’s disease – the largest conference on Alzheimer’s in the U.S. Held in New York, it is an opportunity for caregivers to find out the latest information on Alzheimer’s Disease.
World renowned scientists, Nobel prize recipient Dr. Paul Greengard and Dr. Michael Kaplitt answered questions pertaining to Alzheimer’s Research at this years Mayoral Conference.

Two actresses protraying women with Alzheimer’s Disease have been nominated for Golden Globes this year.

Julie Christie was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) for her role as woman who is disappearing into the vortex of Alzheimer’s disease in ‘Away From Her’.

Sissy Spacek has been nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television with her performance as a foster mother beginning to show signs of Alzheimer’s Disease in “Pictures of Hollis Woods.”
A Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Pictures of Hollis Woods was aired on …read more

SeniorStore.com sells three great activity books that offer the opportunity to remember and reminisce about earlier decades.
1920s

1930s

1940s

One family’s story about dealing with Alzheimer’s which compelled them to create The Unforgettable Fund.

Is Alzheimer’s a Form of Diabetes? (Time Magazine)
Finding the Right Words (The Guardian Weekly) – a book with pictures to help those that are lost for words.
Progress Cited in Alzheimer’s Diagnosis (New York Times) – scientists report progress in the development of a blood test that can diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease.
Doctors Discuss Theories on Aging Brains (Los Angeles Times) – a discussion on normal cognitive aging.
Tooth Troubles Could Raise Dementia Risk (Washington Post)

Sometimes the best way to understand something is to get up close and personal. That’s what a school in New Brunswick did when they decided to educate a group of 6th Grade students about Alzheimer’s Disease. Instead of simply learning by the book, the students were all assigned a ‘pen pal’ – a person with Alzheimer’s disease living in a local long-term care facilitiy. The students wrote letter and sent photos to their pen pals, exchanged holiday cards, and visited them at the residential care facility.
As you can tell from the writing and art works that the students created, it …read more