Since March 2020, we have been bombarded each day with an overload of statistics. Charts, graphs, scattergrams of cases, positives versus positivity rates, deaths, and whatever else can be produced on a colorful whiteboard have been flashed on screens of…
Have you ever found yourself singing along to all of the lyrics of a song you knew in high school but can’t remember what someone told you last week? Well, there may be a scientific basis for this amazing recall.…
July 2017 report published by the Population Research Bureau provides both good and bad news about our aging society and the prevalence of Alzheimer’s and vascular dementias. It is undeniable that the absolute number of Americans with dementia is increasing,…
November is National Hospice and Palliative Care month and a chance to clear up the misunderstanding of what palliative care means and provides. According to the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), 6 million of the 90 million people suffering…
What makes me me? If I become severely demented, should my advance directive direct my care? What does my healthcare agent owe me when my life seems so diminished? This ethical dilemma is vividly demonstrated in a hypothetical case commonly…
Approximately five million people in the U.S. have some degree of dementia, a number assured to increase with the aging population. Dementia is sometimes mistakenly considered to be one disease, but it includes Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia,…