Questions & Answers

Quoting from the Columbia University website: "Our ability to understand how Alzheimer's disease affects the brain and causes debilitating memory loss, confusion, and eventually death, is dependent upon studying brain tissue."

Research is SO important. I'm wondering if anyone else is considering this.

You can find information at the weblink below (National Institute on Aging).
https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/brain-donation/b...

Brain Donation: A Gift for Future Generations

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/brain-donation/brain-donation-gift-future-generations

I am reading so much about people who has alzheimers have diabetes and if you control the diabetes then you have a chance of getting rid of alzheimers. This is completely against everything I have learned and did my medical classes report on. I know we all hope there will be a cure. Unfortunately I think research is grasping at air.

My mom fell in memory care and fractured her sacrum and L1 and L4. She's currently in skilled nursing but what a drastic change in her! Not sure if it's the pain meds and pain causing her to be so zombie like and incontinent. Or is the beginning of a fast decline?

My husband was put on Aricept in 2020 and awhile after that Namenda was added. I am wondering because of what I have read, has it outlived its usefulness? He did well for about 4 years and now not so much. He constantly is delusional and has hallucinations of all types. I've heard they can at times increase that, although I'm not sure that's the cause as he was ok for years. Any thoughts?