Cross-posted from Allen Power’s Blog: Today the BBC reports a US study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study found that people who smoke more than two packs of cigarettes a day in mid-life have double the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather! Here’s the thing: […]
Continue ReadingI stumbled onto a music video this morning that really spoke to everything I’ve loved about working with Elders and their care partners for the last 28 years. It was so sweet and so beautifully done, I had to sit down and find a way to share it with you. This story shows with great poignancy the deep […]
Continue ReadingMy good friend Tom Taylor is a gifted songwriter with some of the cleverest lyrics around. One of his best loved songs, “Murder on this Train”, weaves a famous tale of intrigue, then challenges the listener to recall the name of the train–while telling you which trains it isn’t–in a humorous recitation. Turns out it’s the […]
Continue ReadingEat your way out of Alzheimers In yesterday’s Sunday paper there was a report from the annual conference of the Society for Neuroscience (sfn.org). New discoveries say that amyloid-beta-proteins “float“ freely and block“ neural synapses, the good news is that the well-known “plaques“ are actually good, because they “soak“ up some of these proteins. The […]
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