USA2 SPOTLIGHT

A Fox 4 Kansas City broadcast segment features UsAgainstAlzheimer's partners the University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Center, Don Bosco Centers and Gaudalupe Centers. The clip highlights a collaboration started by LatinosAgainstAlzheimer's and supported by the Global Alzheimer's Platform Foundation to engage Latinos in Alzheimer's research.

MUST READS

A November 29, 2017 Bloomberg article looked at iron levels in the brain as a key to solving the dementia epidemic. Researchers in Melbourne are initiating a study on early Alzheimer’s patients with a drug called deferiprone, to try and remove excess iron. Research shows that excess iron can predict when people will get Alzheimer’s disease, as patients with more iron in their brains deteriorate first and fastest, and those with low iron seem to have slower or delayed progression. 
 

According to a November 29, 2017 Los Angeles Times article, a report published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry shows that the risk of dementia is significantly lower for married people than for adults who remain single their entire lives, as well as widowers and widows. Social engagement is associated with a reduced risk of dementia and married people tend to be healthier overall. 

A November 29, 2017 The Courier-Herald letter to the editor proffers that Alzheimer’s is an issue that demands more attention from our government. Congress can take decisive action by passing the “Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act,” which would create an AD public health infrastructure across the country to increase early detection and diagnosis, reduce risk and prevent avoidable hospitalizations.
 

A November 29, 2017 The Baltimore Sun opinion piece by Erika Redding speaks about her experience with her grandmother’s dementia. Although her grandma wanted to remain at home, Redding’s family couldn’t afford it, and there is very little insurance coverage for it. According to Redding, “Before this disease, my grandmother was one of the strongest and most independent people I’d ever met. Living in this home, she lost so much of that independence, much of which could have been maintained if she had insurance that would cover in-home care. In losing this independence, her disease took control of her mind much faster than it would have otherwise.”