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Posts by Lisa B. Capp
According to reports from the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, approximately 43.5 million Americans provide unpaid care for an adult or child. That’s over 20% of the general adult population in this country! The Baby Boomer generation represents the largest group of unpaid caregivers today.With illnesses that have no sustained treatment or cure, millennials are next in line as caregivers...
1/8/2020 8:00:00 AM
Our recent news cycle has teemed with reports from the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC18), an annual gathering of scientists and researchers from around the globe sharing their latest findings. I follow this news closely because of selfish worry I may develop dementia following the loss of both parents to this devastating brain disease.My middle-aged siblings and I are children...
9/4/2019 7:00:00 AM
Today 5.7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s and related dementias. By 2050 the number is projected to grow to nearly 14 million. Bracing against the disease, while standing alongside those diagnosed, are family and friends wrapped in an intricate web of perplexing emotion.Dementia plays out in stages. I think about the arc of my mother’s life as college sorority sister, to wife, mother...
1/27/2019 10:00:00 PM
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD, formerly known as Pick’s Disease) is less common than Alzheimer’s among the many forms of dementia. However like Alzheimer’s, FTD is untreatable, can be diagnosed as early as age 40 and is ultimately devastating to those living with the disease and those caring for a loved one.Consider this...His wife, Cindy, was an independent, well-respected high school math teacher...
6/1/2018 7:00:00 AM
Between 2000 and 2015 death from Alzheimer’s disease increased 123%. In the same period death from other major diseases in our country declined. This data point may surprise you as Alzheimer’s and related dementias today still share a common reality; they cannot be prevented, slowed or cured.After my mother’s death in 2015, I met with her geriatric psychiatrist. Our conversation transported me back...
4/17/2018 7:00:00 AM
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