This March, bestselling author and Salt Spring Seeds owner Dan Jason will be visiting Cobble Hill to promote a new edition of his book, Some Useful Wild Plants: A Foraging Guide to Food and Medicine from Nature. Jason will attend Cobble Hill’s Seedy Saturday at the Cobble Hill Community Hall on Saturday, March 11, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Featuring over 100 common useful wild plants in Canada, Some Useful Wild Plants serves as a guide for foragers, herbalists, gardeners, and anyone interested in learning more about the many ways plants can be used to our advantage.
Category: Dementia
Lewy Body Dementia Forecast in 12 Major Markets 2017-2027 – Research and Markets
This report provides the current prevalent population for Lewy Body Dementia across 12 Major Markets split by gender and 5-year age cohort. Along with the current prevalence, the report also contains a disease overview of the risk factors, disease diagnosis and prognosis along with specific variations by geography and ethnicity.
Walk for Alzheimer’s
The event is Canada’s largest fundraiser for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and takes place in 22 B.C. communities on May 7. Each walk is dedicated to an honouree someone who has been affected by dementia. This year, Vernon is honouring all Vernon volunteers.
Alzheimer’s Walk wants you
Penticton residents can join a team to participate in the Investors Group Walk for Alzheimer’s and show their support for people who face dementia. The event is Canada’s largest fundraiser for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and takes in 21 communities across B.C. on Sunday, May 7. The walk is a fun and family-friendly event and is unique to each community.
Governor’s Budget Proposal Helps People with Alzheimer’s Disease
… legislature to pass these and other budget measures into law.” The Alzheimer’s Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research whose mission is to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement …
New DNA-Like Drugs Show Promise in Treating Alzheimer’s
Neurofibrillary tangles in the Hippocampus of an old person with Alzheimer-related pathology. Credit: Patho Wikimedia A growing body of research has traced the roots of Alzheimer’s disease to the deposition of a protein called tau throughout the brain.
Cameron reveals new job as president of Alzheimer charity
David Cameron calls for greater funding for dementia research as he reveals new job as president of Alzheimer’s charity Used example of HIV in the 1980s to call for dementia to become a subject of ‘open discussion’ in society David Cameron called for greater funding for dementia research today as he revealed he is to become the president of an Alzheimer’s charity. The former prime minister, who stood down after losing the EU referendum, said he was taking the position with Alzheimer’s Research UK.
Alzheimer’s Society course will help those caring for dementia sufferers
A free Alzheimer’s Society course to help people caring for someone with dementia is coming to Stamford in March. The Carers Information and Support Programme offers the chance to learn more about the condition and how it affects the individual.
Being wary of wandering
Virtually all parents have experienced the terror of looking up from what they were doing only to realize their child has wandered off.
Bloodhounds train to find missing elderly residents
Nearly 5.4 million Americans are living with with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and that number is projected to skyrocket over the next 25 years. Bloodhounds train to find missing elderly residents Nearly 5.4 million Americans are living with with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and that number is projected to skyrocket over the next 25 years.
Antidepressant Use Tied to Double the Risk of Hip Fractures in Elderly
Antidepressant use is tied to nearly double the risk of sustaining a hip fracture among community-dwelling elderly people, particularly those with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland. The increased risk was highest when the patients first began antidepressant treatment but remained elevated even 4 years later.
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… 11th. This program is offered in partnership by the Alzheimer’s Association, UK Sanders Brown Center on Aging, and UK Health Care. The Season of Honor: Caring for the Caregiver Support Group will meet on Monday, January 2, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at First …
Winter break ends
… 11th. This program is offered in partnership by the Alzheimer’s Association, UK Sanders Brown Center on Aging, and UK Health Care. The Season of Honor: Caring for the Caregiver Support Group will meet on Monday, January 2, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at First …
Dedication to a cause
AROUND THE WORLD: David Wren has just completed his trip around the world to raise awareness of Spark of Life. David Wren has made a 24,000km trip to raise money for Spark of Life a dementia treatment that made a massive difference in his mother’s life.
Alarm over rising number of younger dementia patients increasing rapidly
… prevalence of dementia within younger patients as they backed the Frank’s Law campaign. Scottish Conservative mental health spokesman Miles Briggs said: “Even though people in those age groups make up a minority of the total cases, we are still …
North Coast Rep Heralds New Year with Critically Acclaimed Hit,…
North Coast Repertory Theatre continues its highly successful Season 35 with the San Diego premiere of Marjorie Prime, hailed as “an elegant, thoughtful, quietly unsettling drama” by The New York Times. Written by Jordan Harrison, the play enjoyed triumphant runs in Los Angeles and New York and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for drama and won the 2016 Horton Foote Prize, which honors excellence in American theatre.
Doctors Can Diagnose Early Alzheimer’s Disease Through Sniff Test
Tests that measure sense of smell will become important for neurologists. The scientists discovered that lack of smell happens in early Alzheimer.
Husband’s ex-wife hovering around family
… 11th. This program is offered in partnership by the Alzheimer’s Association, UK Sanders Brown Center on Aging, and UK Health Care. The Season of Honor: Caring for the Caregiver Support Group will meet on Monday, January 2, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at First …