Tag Archives: dementia

Don’t Be Too Quick to Diagnose Yourself

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Laura Newman

Learning all you can to manage your health is clearly a good thing. Today we have more at our disposal to learn a huge amount about our health status, how to intervene to avoid a crisis, and optimize our health. … Continue reading →

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Acclaimed Books, Films, and Projects About
Alzheimer’s Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Laura Newman

Books, films, and innovative projects on Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and memory loss are growing. I have assembled a short list of them.There are many foreign films, particularly from South Korea and Japan that are excellent. I hope that US distributors … Continue reading →

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Writing About Alzheimer’s and Dementia Gets Complicated

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Laura Newman

Now that I have spent three days listening to expert neurologists, demographers, caregivers, and policy people talk about Alzheimer’s, I come away from the meeting with a sense that the story is complicated, and that I hope it is not … Continue reading →

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