Importance of Person-Centered Care in Suicide Prevention
By Mykola Zubko, MA Suicide Prevention Program Development Practicum Student at OHSU/Portland VA When is the last time you felt like a person? For some of us, it was probably recent in...
Tag: Alzheimer’s disease
Holiday Travel Tips for Families and Caregivers
As the holidays approach, many of us look forward to traveling to visit friends and family. Many families ask me about traveling with family members with dementia. Here are my top tips....
The Community Advisory Council provides guidance to Layton Center
Last year a new group of research advocates came together to try and solve an issue: how do we get more participants from diverse communities involved in research studies? Since last September,...
Caregiver Corner: Every gift counts
As the lead of Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement at the Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Center, I often meet people who want to donate to our center. We are dependent on families like the...
Caregiver Corner: Introducing a formal caregiver
Article originally published in the Summer 2019 Alzheimer’s Update Family members often ask us for tips on how to introduce a formal caregiver to their family member who has dementia. At some...
Online Monitoring Tech Examines How Financial Behaviors Change with Age
Dr. Kathy Wild has been providing neuropsychological evaluations and caregiver support at the Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Center for over 30 years. Dr. Wild is the principal investigator...
Confessions of a Research Junkie
Below is Ed Parker’s story about being a research participant. Reprinted with permission from 3550 magazine. Article originally published in the Winter 2018 Alzheimer’s Update. Have you ever...
Community workshops provide brain health information for Asian-Americans
Research associates Dara Wasserman, Nicole Fleming and Sylvia Salazar provided nine lectures on brain health and dementia to over 250 community-dwelling Asian older adults earlier this year....
The caregiver perspective: Jennifer’s story
My husband, Charles, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2010. He was 65. Over the next six years, my role changed as his disease progressed: I went from supportive care partner to supportive...
Brain donation at OHSU
If a patient has a brain disease, usually the family will donate the brain for study after death for a couple of reasons. The first is to find out the final diagnosis. The second is to understand...
How the Oregon Charitable Tax Checkoff Program boosted one researcher’s career
Like many aspiring young clinical researchers, my journey began with an NIH funded post-doctoral fellowship with a goal to eventually develop my own independent research program. As a...