The Alzheimer’s Award has been around for the past seven years. Each year the associate editors of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease have chosen the best article from the previous year and presented the author (s) with the Alzheimer’s Award. This award comprises of the Alzheimer’s medal, a 3 inch bronze medal with the likeness of Alois Alzheimer, a US $5000 cash prize, and of course, recognitiion of their research.
This year’s recipient is Jing Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., in recognition of his outstanding work, ‘Detection of Biomarkers with a Multiplex Quantitative Proteomi Platform in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Neurodegenerative Disorders.” …read more

Joseph Voight’s grandmother, Dixie Morton Vaughn, has Alzheimer’s disease. And for the past four years, she has been cared for by Joseph’s mother.
Joseph started writing a journal about his thoughts and experiences with his grandmother’s disease. And from this, a hand written book ‘My Grandma has Alzheimer’s too’ emerged.
The manuscript has yet to find a publisher. But if you want to see a page or two, check out the full article Helping Kids Cope.

Did you know that if you googled ‘blogs about Alzheimer’s Disese’ you would have 974,000 results to wade through.
Or if you googled ‘Alzheimer’s blogs’ the you would find over 1,260,000 results.
That’s way to many for anyone to go through in search for information.
So, to make it easier, I thought I’d list some of my favorite ones:
The Mom & Me Journals – an account of one caregiver’s journey in dealing with Alzheimer’s Disease
The Tangled Neuron – information about Alzheimer’s and dementia in easy to read language
Sunshine and Descent – a son’s personal account of his fathers journey into Alzheimer’s disease
Caregiving, Aging, …read more

I experienced much enjoyment teaching a memory journal workshop at the nursing home where my my mom lived for many years during her Alzheimer’s journey.  The activities staff and I had to do most of the actual arranging of photos and pasting them.  However, the residents chose those they wanted to use, as well as colors for page backgrounds and stickers for decorating.
I also found it fun, in a bittersweet way, to put together a memory album of my mom’s last years.  I picked out photos of the good times I’d had with my grandchildren when we visited Mother.  In …read more