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SingFit: Music As Medicine To Treat Alzheimer’s

In another segment of his series regarding the healing benefits of music, George Howard speaks with Andy Tubman, one of the founders of Musical Health Technologies about SingFit, a service which builds productsdesigned to help people with Alzheimer’s and ADHD use the creative power of music to their advantage. Guest post by George Howard. As […]

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Many Doctors Who Diagnose Alzheimer’s Fail To Tell The Patient

Doctors are much more likely to level with patients who have cancer than patients who have Alzheimer’s, according to a report released this week by the Alzheimer’s Association. The report found that just 45 percent of Medicare patients who’d been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s said they were informed of the diagnosis by their doctor. By contrast,

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A Brief History of Alzheimer’s Disease

Written by Kristen Hicks   September is World Alzheimer’s Month Alzheimer’s isn’t new, although the way we talk about it is. For much of human history, senility and dementia seemed a normal feature of aging. In the early 20th century, a German doctor named Alois Alzheimer was the first to pinpoint a cause, and identify the

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How to Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease

Charles Snelling spent six years taking care of his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife, Adrienne, helpless as he watched the disease steal his college sweetheart. In March, after six decades of marriage, Snelling killed his longtime partner, and then he killed himself. Both were 81. “After apparently reaching the point where he could no longer bear to see

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10 Early Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s & Dementia

1. Recent memory loss that affects job skills 2. Difficulty performing familiar tasks 3. Problems with language 4. Disorientation of time and place 5. Poor or decreased judgment 6. Problems with abstract thinking 7. Misplacing things 8. Changes in mood or behavior 9. Changes in personality 10. Loss of initiative

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