The Alzheimer’s Association says it will use a new $25 million grant to provide more resources, and support to give more respite breaks to caregivers of people living with dementia. The grant is creating a new  Center for Dementia Respite Innovation (CDRI) to “fund new respite care innovation projects across the country,” including for friends or […]

A new global effort is underway to accelerate the prevention, diagnosis and management of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.  The effort, dubbed the Alzheimer’s Moonshot, was announced by StartUp Health in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s Diagnostics accelerator and Gates Ventures, the private office of entrepreneur Bill Gates. The Alzheimer’s effort is […]

Daily use of a multivitamin could help with improvement of episodic memory. That’s according to the latest findings of the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) directed by researchers at Mass General Brigham, which was created to analyze the effects of cocoa extract and multivitamins on the development of health issues like heart disease, […]

Cedars-Sinai has developed a new method for analyzing electronic health records to determine if an older adult has dementia. The findings could help clinicians provide better care earlier. The nonprofit hospital and medical research center based in Los Angeles recently published its findings in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Those findings essentially indicated […]

To receive more content like this each week, click here to subscribe. Without family caregivers, most hospice and palliative care patients would be unable to receive care in the home. Now, some emerging payment models are including caregiver support as a key component. Case in point is the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) model, […]

Senior living provider Sage Oak is reimagining its memory care offerings and executing on providing more personalized care to residents through a new program known as Curated Care.  Sage Oak CEO Loe Hornbuckle said he views the company’s focus on memory care and assisted living as a “revolutionary approach” that combines personalized care on a […]

When setting out to design The Cordwainer, owners Bodo and Tamilyn Liesenfeld had one goal: to make the community outstanding and unique. The Cordwainer is the first, and currently only, community owned and operated by Anthemion Senior Lifestyles. To help the community stand out, it only offers memory care and includes multiple European influences, which […]

A committee of the U.S. Senate is slated to hold a hearing soon to study assisted living, a move spurred by a recent Washington Post investigation. The Post revealed on Jan. 16 that Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, is launching a new review of safety within the assisted […]

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will lead a nationwide study to better understand and study Alzheimer’s disease after receiving a $150 million grant. The UW-School of Medicine and Public Health netted the grant from the National Institutes of Health as part of a national research push to investigate the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s and related dementia forms, […]

The number of older Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia is growing every day – and providers of memory care services are not ready to care for them. That’s according to Teepa Snow, founder and CEO of Positive Approach to Care, an approach to dementia care used by many senior living […]