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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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A study was conducted to determine what patient and caregiver characteristics contributed the most to caregiver burden. Read more »



A study of 150 subjects (16 MCI and 134 AD) was conducted to correlate the  functional, global and cognitive decline assessed clinically with the  neuropathological changes observed in a large prospectively characterized  cohort of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Read more »



A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for men ages 30 through 49. Read more »



WASHINGTON – More than 35  million people around the world are living with Alzheimer's disease or other  types of dementia, says the most in-depth attempt yet to assess the  brain-destroying illness — and it's an ominous forecast as the population  grays. Read more »



 
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