Mary Chapman, features writer —

With the goal of warding off Alzheimer’s disease through integrative medicine, the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation (ARPF) will host its third Brain Longevity Therapy Training and Symposium Oct. 24-27 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Brain Longevity Specialist certification program, which includes yoga training and other techniques, is a…

The strain of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) during the hectic back-to-school season can be overwhelming. For good brain health, the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) says it’s essential to take measures to mitigate stress. “It’s super important to make managing stress one of your top…

To foster the cognitive stimulation of its Alzheimer’s disease (AD) residents, an Arkansas senior living center collaborated with the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith (UAFS) to produce recreational 3D-printed items. A set of large-scale, lightweight, and colorful plastic nuts and bolts were made especially for those…

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) will receive an expected $47 million in a federal grant that will add advanced brain imaging to a pivotal study to determine whether lifestyle modifications can protect memory in those at risk of developing dementia. With the five-year grant from the…

Biopharmaceutical company Longeveron will use a $3 million Alzheimer’s Association grant to advance innovative research that uses adult stem cells to target neuroinflammation in people with mild Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Funding is through the organization’s Part the Cloud global research grant program, designed to find promising targets…

  To enhance care for the growing number of people with Alzheimer’s and other dementia, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center a $3.75 million grant. The grant will establish a partner-reliant program designed to better educate…

Scores of efforts to mark June’s Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month are designed to raise funds and visibility around the degenerative brain disease and related disorders, and the estimated 50 million people worldwide thought to be affected. Across the United States, patients, caregivers, and advocates will “go…

Selected through the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s (ADDF) Diagnostics Accelerator program, four scientists will share nearly $3.5 million to develop new biomarkers for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. Philanthropists, including ADDF co-founder Leonard Lauder, Bill Gates and Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos,…

A new program called the Dementia Friendly Hospital Initiative is set to be launched in North Carolina to raise awareness among healthcare providers on how patients with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia experience care interventions and how to meet their needs. Led by the University of North Carolina School of…

To enable researchers to study prospective links between sleep and dementia, a cutting-edge sleep unit has opened at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England. While sleeping issues commonly occur in dementia, it’s unclear whether diseases such as Alzheimer’s cause the disturbances, or whether problems sleeping signal…