Juanita Lint was diagnosed with Essential Tremors more than 15 years ago. As someone who had worked in high-level leadership positions, she found it frustrating to lead meetings or speak in front of...
Sometimes you realize that another person’s journey is as complex and vivid as your own. When three caregivers enrolled in the virtual TeleSTELLA study last fall, they didn’t expect to realize...
What can you do with your lived experience and expertise? For Sherril Gelmon, being a health services researcher, a research study partner, and a care partner for many years inspired her to donate to...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...