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President and founder of Dementia Care Specialists Kim Warchol, OTR/L, has educated over 5,000 health-care professionals on a best-abilities approach to dementia evaluation, treatment, and programming. She sits on numerous committees and panels that advocate the development of standards for dementia care. She has authored a variety of dementia care articles, and she lectures nationally on dementia management and aging.


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Acupressure and Montessori-based activities decrease agitation in institutionalized residents with dementia, according to a report in The New England Journal of Medicine. Read more »



Early detection is key to more effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of cognitive impairment, and new research shows that a test developed at the University of Tennessee is more than 95 percent effective in detecting cognitive abnormalities associated with these diseases. Read more »



For decades, scientists have struggled to understand what causes Alzheimer's disease, once even suspecting that exposure to aluminum pots and pans played a role. Much is still unknown. Read more »



 
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