The NAPA Advisory Council has released the draft National Plan today (bill summary available here). The plan includes a goal to stop the disease by 2025, which marks the first time the federal government has adopted a time frame to stop Alzheimer’s. The plan also recognizes the need for increasing enrollment in clinical trials, compressing […]
Would You Want to Know If You’ll Get Alzheimer’s? Meryl Comer: We’re in a world of genomics. James Watson who co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA had his genome mapped and was only the second to have done it. The cost has come down considerably. I think it was a million dollars to have it […]
How can you tell if someone is showing early signs of Alzheimer’s disease? The earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease, according to the National Institute on Aging, are characterized by brain accumulation of beta amyloid without obvious behavioral or cognitive changes. The earliest cognitive changes, detectable only on careful neuropsychological testing, may be subtle changes in […]
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The number of Americans over the age of 90 has tripled in thirty years, reaching 1.9 million in 2010, according to a new report. That means long-term care facilities are increasingly seeing older, sicker residents. Nearly 20% of people in their early 90s, and more than 30% of people in the late 90s, live in […]
Is it true that cholesterol medications can cause Alzheimer’s disease? There is no credible evidence that cholesterol medications cause Alzheimer’s disease, though patients and some researchers are in agreement that the cholesterol-lowering statins such as atorvastatin make some people feel slowed down or less sharp. On the other hand, there is considerable evidence that untreated […]
The New York Times and Politico both offer analyses of what went wrong and what might happen next – including concerns from critics that CLASS could be revived at any time. The New York Times: Still No Relief In Sight For Long-Terms Needs The law that many Americans had hoped would transform the nation’s dysfunctional system of long-term […]
Money for the federal programs that millions of seniors rely on to live independently in their own homes will not rise with the growing demand, Kathy Greenlee, head of the Administration on Aging, told members of the Gerontological Society of America during its annual meeting. More than 3,800 researchers, scientists, educators and health professionals specializing in […]
Washington D.C.– February 7, 2012 – The Alliance for Aging Research, today applauded the Obama Administration for reprogramming $50 million from the current budget to Alzheimer’s disease and pledging an additional $80 million for Alzheimer’s research in the next budget cycle. “This is an important bet against the looming tide of dementia threatening America’s aging […]
A February 7, 2012 Kaiser Health News article reported on the Obama administration’s boost in Alzheimer’s funding. According to the article, while the bulk of the administration’s investment will go toward research, $26 million — also being requested in the FY 2013 budget — would support care and outreach to people with the disease and […]