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BrightStar Care Offering Q&A Sessions, ‘Connections’ Campaign for Alzheimer’s Awareness Month

BrightStar Care, a national at-home senior care franchise, has launched an Alzheimer’s awareness campaign — Memories and Connections — for Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. The campaign is designed to equip family or care partners with information, educational tips, and activities to create meaningful connections with loved ones living with Alzheimer’s…

Familial Alzheimer’s Patients May Show Atypical Symptoms, Study Reports

Patients with inherited forms of Alzheimer’s disease have neurological symptoms other than memory loss, suggesting that physicians need watch for less typical symptoms when suspecting familial Alzheimer’s in a patient. While the study also found atypical symptoms can differ among patient groups, a comment suggested that such differences partly reflect the large…

Startups Collaborate with Galaxy in New Effort to Increase Alzheimer’s Patient Participation in Research

Roobirk and Antidote, two startup companies that work to empower people living with Alzheimer’s disease have entered a partnership with Galaxy, an online portal to initiatives that facilitate patient participation in Alzheimer’s research. More than 80% of clinical studies overall are delayed or closed because not enough patients meet enrollment requirements.