Category Archives: Incapacity Planning
New Blood Test For Alzheimer’s May Detect the Disease Years Before Onset of Symptoms
Alzheimer’s disease is becoming more prevalent among aging Americans, and there are more aging Americans than ever before. Alzheimer’s disease has three typical biomarkers: plaques of beta-amyloid protein, tangles of tau protein, and loss of connections in the synapses that communicate information between brain cells. Now a simple blood test for Alzheimer’s may be able… Read More »
Spousal Dementia and its Effect on a Marriage (UPDATED: June 2019)
When someone you love, in particular, your spouse, becomes ill you want to help them get well. But what happens when the illness is dementia? A marital relationship that could have spanned years or decades becomes subject to enormous change, and that change is not a slow linear progression of predictability. It is an… Read More »
Alzheimer’s Disease 101: What You Need to Know to Be Prepared
According to the Alzheimer Association, Alzheimer’s Disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. 1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s; by 2050 this number could be as high as 16 million. In the United States, every 66… Read More »
