Mary Chapman, features writer —

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…

Because a disproportionate number of Alzheimer’s disease patients and caregivers are women, the Alzheimer’s Association and The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM) are leading a global movement to do something about it. Announced March 8 on International Women’s Day, efforts include a South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference…

Addressing fundamental questions about the possibility that Alzheimer’s disease might be brought about by infections, Alzheimer’s Germ Quest has released a series of eight videos, each about one minute long. Alzheimer’s Germ Quest supports research into the prospective infectious quality of the disease the Alzheimer’s Association says affects…

With a new $5-million commitment, the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s (ADDF) Diagnostics Accelerator initiative is expanding its focus on frontotemporal degeneration, the most common form of dementia for individuals under 60. The funds come from a new research pledge of $2.5 million from The Association for Frontotemporal…

A retired U.S. executive has given $5 million to the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of Sciences to establish a contest that challenges scientists to find the cause of Alzheimer’s disease, building on work begun by pioneering neuroscientist Oskar Fischer more than a century…

The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is lauding the additional $425 million designated for Alzheimer’s disease research contained in the Sept. 26 passage of the Health and Human Services (HHS) budget for fiscal year 2019. Its passage brings federal funding to fight the disease to $2.34 billion. “AFA…

The percentage of U.S. residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias will double by 2060, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  In 2014, roughly five million adults ages 65 and over had Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). That’s 1.6 percent of the U.S.

Individuals and organizations internationally are marking World Alzheimer’s Day, Sept. 21, by focusing efforts on increasing awareness and challenging stigmas about Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia. For the seventh consecutive year, September is World Alzheimer’s Month. Every 68 seconds, someone somewhere develops the progressive disease that…