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Dementia Defined
A progressive decline in mental function.
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Living Well: Memory loss -- What to keep in mind
Published October 12, 2008, 11:12 am, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Living Well: Information on how to recognize and deal with someone affected by Alzheimer's.
£228,000 Grant Boosts Alzheimer's Study At Queen's, Northern Ireland
Published October 12, 2008, 6:06 am, Medical News Today
A Queen's University Belfast academic has been awarded £228,000 to further his research into how Alzheimer's disease progresses. Dr Stephen Todd who works in the Department of Geriatric Medicine at Queen's, has been announced as the only Beeson Ireland 2008 scholar after a transatlantic panel peer-reviewed his proposal.
Support Calendar
Published October 12, 2008, 2:20 am, The Beacon News
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Home-care businesses fear state council would cut need Company still planning nursing home despite shift in state funds
Published October 12, 2008, 1:33 am, The Hazleton Standard-Speaker
An owner of a home-care business the past five years in Hazleton bought a second franchise in Wilkes-Barre this summer before learning that he might face a new competitor.
Walk for Memory: Participants take rain in stride
Published October 12, 2008, 1:13 am, Crookston Daily Times
When Lenore Anderson said at Saturday's Walk for Memory that tradition had once again held, she was referring to the fact that, for the second time in the event's two-year history in Crookston, it was cool and raining.
Businessman walks the walk
Published October 11, 2008, 11:31 pm, La Cañada Valley Sun
Preserving memories is at the forefront of James Myers’ mind. The 24-year-old La Cañada entrepreneur and his business partner Nicholas Dazé, also 24, started Life Preserver Digital Archiving in Los Angeles two years ago in order to help preserve photographs, old movies and videos.
Open house at Johnson memory unit
Published October 11, 2008, 11:08 pm, Journal Inquirer
STAFFORD — Johnson Memorial Health Network’s will be showing off its new memory support unit on Thursday. The Evergreen Health Care Center, part of the network, will be hosting an open house at the unit from 4 to 7 p.m.
Death records for October 12, 2008
Published October 11, 2008, 10:36 pm, The Gleaner
Baumgart, Mary Delores; 84, Evansville, died Sept. 25, cardiopulmonary arrest, secondary to aspiration pneumonia. Bolin, Forrest E.; 85, Francisco, Ind., died Sept. 23, respiratory failure, pneumonia.
Special teen crowned homecoming queen at Aledo
Published October 11, 2008, 10:28 pm, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
By MITCH MITCHELL ALEDO — When Kristin Pass was born 18 years ago and diagnosed with Down syndrome, the family did not quite know what to expect, says her mother, Carolyn Pass. What they got Friday was royalty, as Aledo Senior High School students voted Kristin Pass their homecoming queen. "The first thing that I thought about was my friends," the new queen said Saturday before attending the ...
Special teen crowned homecoming queen at Aledo
Published October 11, 2008, 10:20 pm, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The town of Aledo enshrines a special teen with the homecoming queen crown during Friday’s football game.
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- Jacket 35 - Early 2008 - Susan M. Schultz: Dementia Blog (January 2007-December 2006)
- Dementia Blues
- Mental Exercise Nearly Halves Risk of Dementia | LiveScience: Staying mentally and physically active throughout life is the best way to keep the mind sharp and reduce the risks of developing dementia, two recent studies show.
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- Terry Pratchett: I'm slipping away a bit at a time... and all I can do is watch it happen | Mail Online
- Dementia Out of the Shadows
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- Dementia patients 'suffer stigma': With an ageing population more and more people are likely to suffer from some form of dementia, so stigmatizing them is only going to make matters worse. As Terry Pratchett suggests, we need to name this demon before we can tame it.
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