A personal story of a family dealing with Alzheimer’s disease…

Just wanted to share with Alzheimer’s Notes readers a great DVD giveaway over at Healthbolt.
Food Matters is an independently funded film looks at the trillion dollar worldwide ’sickness industry’ and ask why ‘despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies.’
It’s been called the ‘food equivalent’ of The Inconvenient Truth.
Healthbolt has five copies of the Food Matters DVD to giveaway.
Check out the film’s trailer….

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Ivanhoe News video about Boosting Your Brain Power…

Here’s a two part video presented by The Better Part, a program by and for seniors.

UCI Professor of Clinical Family Medicine Dr. Laura Mosqueda talks about Alzheimer’s disease at a lecture hosted at California State University Long Beach.

I wrote in June about the silver alert system for people with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Here’s Congressman Tom Latham, one of the original co-sponsor of legislation known as the Silver Alert Grant Program Act. Congressman Latham is no stranger to the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease as his own father suffered from it.

The Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (HBTRC), founded in 1978, is one of the oldest and largest such facilities in the world.
Check out what it is and what is does with this fascinating two part video tour…

Flora TV has interesting talk by Emma Shulman, a 95-year-old lecturer and Senior Family Counselor at NYU’s Silberstein Institute.

Second Wind Dreams, a national non-profit organization with a mission to change the perception of aging, one dream at a time, has a Virtual Dementia tour kit. It’s a training tool that provides people with the opportunity to experience how it might feel to have dementia.

Sounds like something everyone who works with dementia patients should experience…

The scientists at The University of California, San Francisco have teamed up with YouTube in order to create UCSF Aging & Memory Center, a place to medical research.
According to the Press Release…
“The channel is intended to increase awareness among patients, their families — and physicians — about the various forms of dementia, with the goal of promoting earlier diagnoses and getting more patients into research studies and clinical trials. The site is also intended to educate caregivers, and provide support through caregiver testimonials.”