What is the Price of Generic Aricept?
Aricept is available as a generic drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's and memory loss under the name Donepezil.By Bob DeMarco+Alzheimer's Reading RoomOne of the most frequently asked questions we receive, and searches from Google, asksWhat is the price of Generic Aricept?You can currently buy the generic form of Aricept, Donepezil, for $11.41 for a 30 day supply, or $16.49 for a 90 day supply from a reputable supplier like Costco.The information above was obtained from the Costco Pharmacy drug pricing pages.You might be surprised to learn that Aricept, the brand form of Donepezil, costs $387.08 for a 30 day supply,...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 31, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Around the World
Alzheimer's and dementia care is advancing around the world. These three articles are well worth reading, discussing, and sharing in the Alzheimer's community worldwide.By Bob DeMarco +Alzheimer's Reading Room Some with Alzheimer’s find care in far-off nationsThis fascinating article describes how families are sending persons living with Alzheimer's and dementia to far off place like Thailand to receive memory care.The reason? The care is better and far cheaper.A must read and share for the entire Alzheimer's and dementia community world wide.Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail: Tea Rooms for Persons ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 31, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
How to Get a Person Living with Dementia to Drink More?
Okay readers of the Alzheimer's Reading Room its time to provide some insight, advice, and suggestions for a fellow caregiver. She needs our help.By Bob DeMarco +Alzheimer's Reading RoomIn the comments section of the article New Year's Resolution - Be a Guide our reader Karen asks:How can you guide a dementia patient to hydrate?This is an on going battle especially since they have frequent UTI's.Having them drink more fluids is torture.Any suggestions to guide them?Saint John the EvangelistThe Patron Saint of Caregivers Test Your Memory for Alzheimer's (5 Best Tests)What is the Difference Between Alzheime...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 30, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
New Year's Resolution - Be a Guide
The effort to explain, cajole, or convince a person who is deeply forgetful is often met with frustration on the part of the Alzheimer's caregiver; and, complete and total recalcitrance and refusal on the part of the person living with dementia.By Bob DeMarco +Alzheimer's Reading Room It is always a good idea to make some changes and resolutions as we enter the New Year.Here is one suggestion I am going to make for Alzheimer's caregivers as we enter 2014.Be a Guide. Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail: It is not unusual for caregivers to try and explain and convince person living with dementia to do som...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 29, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Where Alzheimer's Starts and How It Spreads
This study has given us a unique opportunity to image and characterize patients with Alzheimer’s in its earliest, preclinical stage.”The 96 adults were followed for an average of 3.5 years, at which time 12 individuals were found to have progressed to mild Alzheimer’s disease. An analysis of the baseline fMRI images of those 12 individuals found significant decreases in cerebral blood volume (CBV) — a measure of metabolic activity — in the LEC compared with that of the 84 adults who were free of dementia.A second part of the study addressed the role of tau and APP in LEC dysfunction. While previous studies have ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 28, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
I Think About Alzheimer's Caregivers All the Time
I believe our ability to carry on comes from the spirit within us. Many of us realize, later on, that our dormant spirit was re-enlivened and reinvigorated.By Bob DeMarco +Alzheimer's Reading Room After my mother went to Heaven on May 25, 2012 I was asked all the time - will you stop writing on the Alzheimer's Reading Room? At the time I said no.Don't worry I'm still here, and I intend to stay.So now as we near the end of 2013 I can say,I continue to think about Alzheimer's caregivers, and Alzheimer's caregiving every single day.Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail: I think about Alzheimer's as soon as I w...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 27, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Are Concussions Related to Alzheimer’s Disease?
A new study from the Mayo Clinic indicates that concussions are a risk factor for developing Alzheimer's decades; although, not everyone with head trauma will lose their memory.+Alzheimer's Reading Room A new study suggests that a history of concussion involving at least a momentary loss of consciousness may be related to the buildup of Alzheimer’s plaques in the brain.The research is published in the online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail: The Gist“Interestingly, in people with a history of concussion, a difference in the ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 26, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
The Role of Stress Reduction in Alzheimer's Caregiving
Was stress reduction one of the reasons why the progression of some of the aspects of Alzheimer's disease slowed in my mother?By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room It is a well known scientific fact that stress impacts our health negatively. Stress does impact the progression of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia; and, stress can also lead to depression in Alzheimer's care partners.The role of stress in the Alzheimer's paradigm is enormous.All Alzheimer's caregivers should focus on the negative impacts of stress, and the resultant negative complications that can be caused by stress in Alzheimer's Care. I remai...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 26, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Merry Christmas to the Alzheimer's and Dementia Community Worldwide
For the typical Alzheimer's caregiver Christmas day can bring on a tidal wave of conflicting feelings. Christmas can be an emotional roller coaster ride.+Alzheimer's Reading Room Merry Christmas 2013Feel free to interact with each other in the comments section below.For the typical Alzheimer's caregiver Christmas day can bring on a tidal wave of conflicting feelings. Christmas can be an emotional roller coaster ride.For those of us, like me, who have lost our loved one we can feel deep sadness, or choose to remember our loved one for the wonderful human being they were.I think we could agree that our loved one's would wa...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 25, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Why Are the Little Things So Annoying ?
Many of the things that persons living with Alzheimer's do, and say, often seem odd to us. Why do we allow them to annoy us?By Bob DeMarco +Alzheimer's Reading RoomOur long time reader Jocelyn once asked,"Why is it that it is usually the little things that are so annoying? With Christmas on the horizon and during this time of year I thought it might be useful to give this some thought.Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail: Many of the things that persons living with Alzheimers do, and say, often seem odd to us. There is no doubt that dementia patients often see things differently in Alzheimer's World.Why ar...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 24, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
The Unmet Needs of Dementia Patients and Caregivers
This Johns Hopkins study found that 99 percent of people with dementia, and 97 percent of caregivers have unmet needs. This comes as no surprise to me.+Alzheimer's Reading Room The finding below should be read by Alzheimer's caregivers and their families.A disturbing finding of this study is that 60 percent of people with dementia needed medical care for conditions related or unrelated to their dementia. A big big problem considering that those with dementia are more likely to have other serious illnesses for which they may eventually be hospitalized.One aspect of this study that did not surprise me was the finding thatMo...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 22, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Could a Brain with Alzheimer's Have New Memories ?
"Our passionate motivation for this research is the idea that an Alzheimer's patient, who for a long time was not able to remember things, could start to have new memories".+Alzheimer's Reading Room Researchers at Penn State University have developed an innovative technology to regenerate functional neurons after brain injury, and also in model systems used for research on Alzheimer's disease. The scientists have used supporting cells of the central nervous system, glial cells, to regenerate healthy, functional neurons, which are critical for transmitting signals in the brain.Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEma...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 19, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
People With Alzheimer’s May Be Silent Yet Very Alert
It was proof that she was still “there” – still aware of her surroundings even though she rarely acknowledged it.By +Marie Marley+Alzheimer's Reading Room There was a lady with Alzheimer’s I volunteered to visit once a week at a local memory care facility. I’m going to call her Carolyn.Before my first visit the administration told me she loved Elvis. So I bought an Elvis CD and took it, along with my portable CD player, to the visit.After introducing myself I said, “Carolyn, I understand you love Elvis.”“Elvis?” she asked with disgust evident in her tone of voice. “Where’d they get that?” Sub...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 19, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
A Gift for All Seasons
In this time of giving, we are reminded of all of the wonderful gifts that people living with dementia have given to us.By Tom and Karen Brenner+Alzheimer's Reading Room Once we take the time to get to know these elders, we find that they had wonderful stories to share with us. These stories are often just snapshots, brief moments remembered from a long life. Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail: A wise man once told us,“When an old person dies, an entire library is lost.”Here is one of our favorite stories. It was told to us by a 95 year old woman.As a young girl, she lived in a sod house on the prairie....
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 17, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
The Personal Nature of Personhood
Even if he doesn’t remember later what he chose, the important thing is at that moment you have respected him and dignified him by showing that you think enough of him to ask. That is the meaning of Personhood.By +Carole Larkin+Alzheimer's Reading RoomCarole LarkinA note to readers: down below is email thatwas sent to me shortly after the article Personhood – Compassionate Dementia Care was published here.The author of the email, who will remain anonymous, has graciously permitted me to publish her letter as a way to clarify my meaning of Personhood to everyone reading here.In return I am giving her a short “Consult...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 16, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
