In addition to managing the medical and day-to-day care of people with frontotemporal disorders (a type of dementia), caregivers themselves can face a host of other challenges. Learn about how frontotemporal disorders (FTDs) affect families and resources available to help…
Read More Caring for a Person with a Frontotemporal Disorder
Click here to view the full brochure and to register:https://leadingageil.org/events/2020-dementia-course/
Rush University Medical Center's Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program, called CATCH-ON, announces the launch of their 4M online education modules related to an Age-Friendly Health Systems including caregiving, delirium, dementia, depression, medication, and mobility. Click here to learn more: http://bit.ly/2Fq6bvx
Every single person can help our country control the COVID-19 pandemic by reducing their own chance of getting infected by SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes coronavirus disease, or COVID-19), and preventing the spread of COVID-19 to coworkers, friends, and loved…
Read More Why COVID-19 Testing is the Key to Getting Back to Normal
Dementia is the loss of thinking, remembering, reasoning, and behavioral abilities to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia among older adults. Read NIA’s Alzheimer’s…
Expanding the Alzheimer’s disease research workforce Pragati Katiyar, Health Science Policy Analyst, Office of Planning, Analysis, and Evaluation (OPAE) Recent funding increases for research on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias have enabled NIA to expand our scientific reach. As we…
Read More Broadening the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research Field
MHA is pleased announce that our 2020 Annual Conference: COVID-19, Mental Health and the Need for Equity, will be simulcast in both American Sign Language (ASL) and Spanish next week, September 3-4, 2020. To promote more inclusion of participants, MHA felt it…
Read More MHA’s Annual Conference September 3-4, to be Streamed Live in ASL and Spanish!
World Alzheimer's Month, started in 2012, is an international campaign by Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) to raise awareness and challenge the stigma that surrounds dementia. World Alzheimer's Month is recognized every September. World Alzheimer's Day is on the 21 September…
This alert links to all of the Funding Opportunity Announcements and Notices published by the National Institute on Aging at NIH in the previous month, giving researchers and trainees a heads up about what’s new. Read about the latest NIA…
