Jul at Veggie Chic has done a great job hosting our monthly SciHealth Theme Day, featuring posts the channel bloggers wrote for World Health Day.  Although March 7 is the actual date, we gathered our information today with science and health issues of global interest.
Liz’s and my post about Alzheimer’s concerns in various countries,  was among these.  It’s not just in our countries of New Zealand and the United States, but around the world that patients, families and caregivers are concerned about this disease, seeking causes, cures, and comfort.

              As we approach World Health Day, April 7, we realize that Alzheimer’s has become a world wide concern.  It may not be a contageous disease, but it affects people and families everywhere. 
Liz has called attention to people and projects around the globe in previous posts here, such as You Are Not Alone: Alzheimer’s Stories from Around the World.  I posted about Queen Silvia of Sweden addressing Alzheimer’s at a conference in Japan.  Some of her concern stems from the fact her mother had Alzheimer’s.
So we see this disease is not merely the concern of one country or one continent.  …read more