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News and current affairs about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

United States

The Hospital Is No Place for the Elderly

by JONATHAN RAUCH

It is 1976. Brad Stuart is in his third year of medical school at Stanford, doing his first clinical…

Canada

Alzheimer's Costs The Canadian Economy $33B a Year

by JONATHAN MIGNEAULT

Karen Annis of Sudbury, Ont., felt powerless and abandoned while caring for her husband Gordon during…

United Kingdom

My dad, David Cameron and the National Health Service

by YVONNE ROBERTS

War – of a kind – has been declared on dementia. My dad John, who would have been 92 years old,…

United States

Woman Freezes to Death Near Her Home

by TEAM ALZLIVE

Authorities say a 71-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease has frozen to death after she…

Good

Buddy Program Pairs Doctors-To-Be With Dementia Patients

by LINDSEY TANNER

At age 80, retired Chicago physician and educator Dan Winship is getting a bittersweet last chance to…

Canada

Canada Urged To Develop National Dementia Strategy

by JESSICA BARRETT

The longest walk in the world. Ottawa’s Matt Dineen calls it the longest walk in the world, the lonely…