Families caring for families
by: Amy Getter, who blogs regularly at hospicediary.com “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”…
by: Amy Getter, who blogs regularly at hospicediary.com “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”…
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD About 4.5 million people have dementia in the US. Thanks to the fantastic work of palliative…
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Check it out folks, the #ThickenedLiquidChallenge is now a featured video on MakingSenseofAlzheimers.org, a new site out of…
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD This is the 8th installment in my occasional post-being-on-service-digestion-of-what-just-happened-via-blogging potpourri from clinical work series. TVs. Our…
by: Stan Terman Michael Ellenbogen has dementia. He took the #thickenedliquidchallenge. He never wants to have thickenedliquids again, even if…
By Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD and Sarah Stranberg, Speech Pathologist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Consider the following vignettes, common in…
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD Every once and a while, a new innovation comes along that makes you go, “Wow!” or,…
More than 5 million Americans currently have Alzheimer disease. One of them happens to be Donald Sterling. There are a…
Persons with dementia often suffer from behavioral symptoms such as agitation and aggression. For the caregiver, these symptoms can be…
By: Laurel Coleman, MD I have been pondering Danielle Ofri’s NY Times column, “The Silence of Doctors Around Alzheimer’s”…