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Researchers report that people with early Alzheimer's appear to have problems navigating turns while walking, an observation that could help doctors diagnose the disease in its initial stages
Florida Atlantic University's María de los Ángeles Ortega, DNP, APRN, in the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, has been awarded a three-year, $1.3 million grant from the Administration for Community Living's (ACL) Alzheimer's Disease Program Initiative for a groundbreaking project designed to advance health equity and improve quality of life for individuals living with or at high risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) and their family caregivers.
The Food and Drug Administration Friday approved a drug that doctors are calling the first treatment in decades that can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Florida’s diverse elderly population is playing a key role in breakthrough Alzheimer’s research, contributing in a big way to the trials that led to the recent announcement of the first medicine to clearly blunt the progression of the disease.
The holidays can be a special time, but may present challenges for those with dementia and their loved ones. Travel is fatiguing, being in a new