by Jimmy Carter | Jul 27, 2018 | Alzheimer’s
Most people are familiar with the common forms of dementia that are involved with will contests, and those that we have talked about here on this blog — Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia with Lewy Body and Vascular Dementia. But there is another type of dementia that is...
by Jimmy Carter | Jul 26, 2018 | Alzheimer’s, Dementia
On Wednesday, the search for a drug to treat Alzheimer’s reached a hopeful crossroads. For the first time in a large clinical trial, a new drug both reduced plaques in brains of sufferers with Alzheimer’s and slowed the progression of dementia. These results were...
by Jimmy Carter | Jul 20, 2018 | Alzheimer’s, Dementia
Almost everyone has someone in their life who has been touched by dementia and the number of diagnoses continue to grow at an alarming rate. It’s estimated that 82 million people worldwide will have dementia by 2030, according to the World Health Organization. In the...
by Jimmy Carter | Jul 18, 2018 | Alzheimer’s
For most diseases, there’s a good test for detecting it, and it’s usually early on when there’s a good chance of favorable treatment. This holds true for cancer, heart disease, hypertension and even some mental illness. Unfortunately, this is not the case for...
by Jimmy Carter | Jul 16, 2018 | Alzheimer’s
Dementia and Alzheimer’s are an epidemic in America today. A staggering 5.7 million adults currently hold an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. That number is only expected to rise, to a projected 14 million Alzheimer’s patients by 2050 in the U.S. alone.1 Of note, less than 1%...
by Jimmy Carter | Jul 12, 2018 | Alzheimer’s, Dementia
During my own amazing (tongue in cheek) soccer career, circa 1977 through 1984, my father cautioned against the use of the “footballers” favorite weapon: headers. I followed my father’s sage advice, and thank goodness – as it turns out, he was not being overly...
