Cindy Leonard, a longtime Mayo Clinic nurse and nurse educator, was diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2018. It’s an uncommon form of dementia that affects those under 65. Health care providers often don’t look for the disease in younger patients, so they often are misdiagnosed and don’t receive support, explains Dr. Jonathan Graff-Radford, a …
Did you know that this week is Brain Awareness Week? In light of that we wish to focus attention towards how dementia related illnesses affect the brain. Dementia is a disease that can alter brain effectivity and function in many ways, so it is important to recognise the early warning signs in order to help the …
Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death for people over the age of sixty-five. We can’t slow it down once you are diagnosed, and we haven’t cured it. Therefore, there have been no survivors of anyone ever diagnosed with Alzheimer’s until we have a major medical breakthrough. In this week’s episode, you’ll learn …