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NIA announces funding of new Alzheimer’s Clinical Trial Consortium The National Institute on Aging has announced funding of a new clinical trial network, charged with testing the most promising potential treatments and preventions for Alzheimer’s disease over the …

Very true statement , the caregiver are the back bone of all the health facilities(nursing homes, board care, hospital, assisting living facility) Its very sad that none of the political partiers did nothing to helped the poor elderly or the caregiver. Elderly people became almost disposal in America.

The future of work is the low-wage health care job The poor taking care of the poor are driving the new economy.

'Dementia is not inevitable' says David Cameron as he becomes President of Alzheimer’s Research UK Former Prime Minister David Cameron vowed that 'dementia is not inevitable' as he became the new President of Alzheimer’s Research UK.

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Lets hope that this new drug would be the answer for people who are suffering from this disease.

Alzheimer’s treatment appears to alleviate memory loss in small trial Larger studies are under way to test whether the promising early data holds up.

it would help millions of people who are suffering from this out of control disease

Scientists discover new trigger for dementia University of Adelaide scientists believe an out-of-control immune system may be to blame. This triggers inflammation, which causes brain cells to die.

Could Your Red Face Be a Sign of Alzheimer's Disease?

How immune cells protect against Alzheimer's disease... University of California, Irvine scientists revealed B-cells and T-cells, which are immune cells located outside of the brain, help microglia - immune cells in the brain - in getting rid of the plaques that build up to cause Alzheimer's.

Nothing new about this articles,our dearly elderly people being abused by nursing homes, board care,alzheimer's facility for many years. More investigation is need to protecting ours elderly. which many of then are sick, alone, voiceless,unlove.

Elderly Abused at 1 in 3 Nursing Homes: Report Reports of serious, physical, s*xual and verbal abuse are "numerous" among the nation's nursing homes, according to a congressional report released today. The study, prepared by the minority (Democratic and Independent) staff of the Special Investigations Division of the House Government Reform...

WOW,please read this article,mostly the nursing homes are under and unqualified staff. Medicare /CMS should fine then big$$$$$$

Medicare Implements Tougher Nursing Home Care Score System: What Are The Pros And Cons? As the federal government revamps its national ranking system to include new categories for assessing nursing home care, most homes will see a dip in quality score. The Medicaid system, while improving, can do more, says an industry executive.

American Attitudes Toward the Elderly
The Youth Culture. Present-day American attitudes about the elderly have been reinforced by a century's worth of media, particularly movies and television. From the 1950's onward, a great culture of youth, fed by teen heros like James Dean and his sucessors over the decades, emerged and strengthened. Old people were left out of the picture. The period after World War Two also saw great mobility in America, which led to the break-up of large extended families. The old person was no longer seen as a useful member of a family team, but rather as a drain on the family's resources.

The Shrinking Family. Older people had previously depended on their families, hence on younger people, for support in their “declining years,” but suddenly that support was gone. Older people suffered as a result. Government programs could provide money at best, and never enough of it, hardly a substitute for a caring, loving family. Living past seventy became, for many, a rather bleak prospect, a time of loneliness, poverty and illness.

The Stereotype. The youth culture did another great disservice in stereotyping old people as chronically ill, unable to work, behind the times, slow-thinking, useless financial burdens on society. The idea that old people could actually fall in love or have s*x with each other is embarrassing to many Americans, old, young and in-between. The baby boomer generation, which at present is fast entering the ranks fo the elderly, has other ideas about this stereotype.

Older Americans are Vital. Not one of these stereotypes is true, of course, certainly not the poverty notion. Americans over the age of fifty own 75 percent of all American assets and spend half the money. A full 70 percent of these people own their own homes. They vote and are active in the community to a greater extent than young people. You can find them out there doing sports and outdoor activities, or working out at the gym. If they find themselves single, divorced or widowed, they keep the Internet dating services humming, looking for each other. Just like younger people, they are just as likely to fall in love and, yes, they do actually have s*x with each other.

ICU Infections Among Elderly Tied to Higher Death Rates After Discharge - US News Intravenous line infections and ventilator-related pneumonia among most common problems, study says

Are Caregivers Healthier? More evidence that caregiving may improve health.

Elderly care needs 'set to treble' The number of older people who will need care is set to nearly treble globally by 2050, campaigners say.

Experts say caregivers need to reach out to others for support – whether it’s help in caring for the patient or just with house cleaning and shopping for groceries. But even with help, caregiving is the toughest job most people will ever have.

“People don’t say, ‘I survived Alzheimer’s,’” Crabtree said. “We are the survivors. I survived caregiving.”

We desperately need more researchers for Alzheimer disease, Its affects seniors and their whole life's.

The race for the next-generation of Alzheimer's drugs - NBC News.com Dick Purdy was in his mid-70s when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Now 82, the former surgeon has steadily declined, but at...

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Nervous system disease: A new outlet for an old drug? A sixty-year old drug designed to treat vitamin B1 deficiency helps ease the symptoms of a chronic, progress nervous system disease, a clinical trial reveals. A large-scale, randomized controlled trial is now needed to help reveal the drugs true potential.

Sanjay, just found out that w**d its good medicine!!

CNN's Sanjay Gupta Reacts to Robust 'W**d' Documentary Response Calling out a lack of medical ma*****na research, Sanjay Gupta has brought pot to the forefront.

Dementia risk score for people with diabetes A new scoring system for people with type 2 diabetes has been created by Kaiser Permanente researchers to predict risk of dementia so that early treatment can be given.

Congratulations to all of you at OIG and SMP. Well done!

The Numbers are Out! California SMP Saves Money for Both Medicare & Beneficiaries The Office of Inspector General (OIG) numbers are out and California’s Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) has much to celebrate! Each year the OIG compiles an annual report on the 54 Senior Medicare Patrol projects nationwide looking at the number of volunteers, number of training hours, number of counsel...

Great article, everyone need to be a vigilant, its too many scams. Our seniors population became very vulnerable. Please share this.

A Baby Boomer Alert: Who Is Stealing From Your Elderly Parents Today? MetLife’s Mature Market Institute estimates that seniors lost $2.9 billion due to financial abuse in 2010, an increase of $200 million from 2009. Seniors are often victims of investment fraud, credit card fraud and identity theft because they are vulnerable to sales of products that will save them m...

Alzheimer's Research Takes a New Turn
Study suggests that gummed-up synapses -- not plaque -- may be at the root of aging brain diseases
August 13, 2013 RSS Feed Print

By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, Aug. 13 (HealthDay News) -- A protein that accumulates in healthy aging brains could prove to be the culprit behind the natural forgetfulness that comes with growing old as well as advanced neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, according to a new study.

The protein, known as C1q, accumulates on the brain's synapses as people age, potentially gumming up the works, said Dr. Ben Barres, professor and chair of neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and senior author of the study, published Aug. 14 in the Journal of Neuroscience.

A post-mortem review of mouse and human brains found that the amount of C1q in the brain increases as much as 300-fold with aging.

By comparing brain tissue from mice of varying ages as well as postmortem samples from a 2-month-old infant and an older person, the researchers found that the growing C1q deposits weren't randomly distributed along nerve cells.

Instead, they heavily concentrate at synapses (the junctions between nerve cells), where they could hamper the conduction of electrical and chemical signals in the brain.

"Synapses are not being lost," Barres said. "However, we see the synapses aren't working so good with all that C1q stuck to them. It's detrimental."

But C1q is known to play an important part in the developing brain during childhood, and Barres suspects that this function could lead the protein to attack the synapses if triggered. Such an attack could be the cause of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.

This hypothesis runs counter to prevailing theories about Alzheimer's, which have focused on the accumulation of amyloid plaques in the brain as a cause of the disease.

In a normal developing brain, synapses are both created and destroyed -- a process Barres likens to "pruning" the brain by preserving necessary synapses and eliminating the excess.

"What wasn't clear is what the molecular basis of the synapse pruning was," Barres said. "It involves a normal immune protein that people didn't even realize was in the brain -- C1q."

C1q is capable of clinging to the surface of foreign bodies such as bacteria or to bits of dead or dying human cells. This initiates a molecular chain reaction known as the complement cascade. One by one, the system's other proteins glom on, coating the offending cell or piece of debris. This in turn draws the attention of omnivorous immune cells that gobble up the target.

Barres now hypothesizes that diseases such as Alzheimer's might develop if the C1q that has accumulated on the synapses triggers an immune system attack against them.

"The first regions of the brain to show a dramatic increase in C1q are places like the hippocampus and substantia nigra, the precise brain regions most vulnerable to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, respectively," Barres said. Another region affected early on, the piriform cortex, is associated with the sense of smell, whose loss often heralds the onset of neurodegenerative disease.

"Our findings may well explain the long-mysterious vulnerability specifically of the aging brain to neurodegenerative disease," he said. "Kids don't get Alzheimer's or Parkinson's," Barres pointed out.

"Profound activation of the complement cascade, associated with massive synapse loss, is the cardinal feature of Alzheimer's disease and many other neurodegenerative disorders. People have thought this was because synapse loss triggers inflammation. But our findings here suggest that activation of the complement cascade is driving synapse loss, not the other way around," Barres explained.

Heather Snyder, director of medical and scientific operations for the Alzheimer's Association, said the new study "adds to the body of information that looks at how the immune system might work in Alzheimer's disease." She added that there are many hypotheses that need to be explored about what may be happening in Alzheimer's.

Noting that much of the research in the current study involved mice, Snyder said future studies need to focus on how C1q affects human brains.

"This is really opening the door that this should be explored further," she said. "It needs to be replicated in the laboratory and also correlated to what it may mean in human beings."

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Loved ones can be of any age. Please help protect your loved ones!

Are Your Parents In Good Hands? Be careful who you entrust to care for your parents. New research from Northwestern Medicine suggests that many nursing agencies recruit people with no experience to provide in-home care for seniors off Craigslist.

http://www.preventelderabuse.org/
Check out this website! These people are helping to stop the elder abuse and so are we! Please help the people in need.

NCPEA National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse.

A Chance Worth Taking – Ingleside at King Farm The past cannot be changed. History may repeat itself, but it can never be rewritten. The forward march of time offers no do overs and few second chances. Therefore, when an opportunity presents itself, it must be seized. Werner and Elizabeth Schumann, residents of Ingleside at King Farm, a continui...

Be Aware of what is going on with out realization!

Elder abuse and neglect Elderly mistreatment is a hidden, and often ignored problem in society. In the general population many will have heard the phrase ‘Granny Battering’ but will know little more than that, other than perhaps some awareness of problems publicised in television programmes on Care Homes....

Physical Activity its very good for all ages

Physical Activity NCOA’s Center for Healthy Aging helps community organizations offer fun and proven programs that keep older adults moving.

Anyone who have a elderly parent, should read this.

6 Steps to Protect Your Older Loved One from a Fall If you have an aging parent, grandparent, or neighbor in your life, helping them reduce their risk of falling is a great way to help them stay healthy and independent as long as possible.