Are Alzheimer's Caregivers the Forgotten?

clipped from www.alzheimersreadingroom.com Forty percent of Alzheimer's caregivers end up suffering from depression. Do you want to see this happen to a loved one or friend? Like it or not, if you are a family member or friend of an Alzheimer's caregiver and you are not helping them--you have abandoned them. I am sure this sounds harsh. But, it's not even close to the harshness of your own behavior. Alzheimer's is a sinister disease--it kills the brain of the person suffering from Alzheimer's. And, it will try to kill the brain of the Alzheimer's caregiver.

The Alzheimer's Project DVD -- Free Copy

Follow the link to the Alzheimer's Reading Room to obtain your free copy of the DVD.

clipped from www.alzheimersreadingroom.com Subscribers to the Alzheimer's Reading Room can now obtain a free copy of The Alzheimer's Project. I don't know about you, but I am really looking forward to viewing this documentary. I am an HBO subscriber and they really do a great job with all their entertainment. I am very confident we will be smiling, and crying, as we watch this documentary.

Google Downside Reversal? (Chart)

clipped from allamericaninvestor.blogspot.com Action today could be signaling  a downside reversal in Google. So far the low is in the critical 380 area. If 380 is breached it would signal additional downside in Google.

The Alzheimer's Project How to Get it on DVD -- HBO

clipped from www.alzheimersreadingroom.com I am getting bombarded with emails asking me how to get HBO's The Alzheimer's Project if you don't have HBO. There is good news. HBO is offering the Alzheimer's Project on DVD and in book form. You can order it now, but it won't ship until June 2. To order a copy of the DVD -- The Alzheimer's Project -- go here.

Cold Fusion and Palladium (Chart)

clipped from allamericaninvestor.blogspot.com Every decade or so the topic of cold fusion comes up. When it does you sometimes see Palladium, the commodity, soar. Will 60 Minutes trigger a new bull market in Palladium?

Researchers link cocoa flavanols to improved brain blood flow

clipped from www.alzheimersreadingroom.com In a scientific study of healthy, older adults ages 59 to 83, Harvard medical scientists found that study participants who regularly drank a cocoa flavanol-rich beverage made using the Mars, Incorporated Cocoapro® process had an eight percent increase in brain blood flow after one week, and 10 percent increase after two weeks.

60 Minutes Cold Fusion (Video and Text)

clipped from allamericaninvestor.blogspot.com Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle East and stop those greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. It would change everything. "We can yield the power of nuclear physics on a tabletop. The potential is unlimited. That is the most powerful energy source known to man," researcher Michael McKubre told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley.

The Alzheimer's Project -- HBO

clipped from www.alzheimersreadingroom.com The Memory Loss Tapes -- Sunday, May 10 at 9 PM Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? -- Monday, May 11 at 7:30 PM Momentum in Science -- Monday, May 11 at 8 PM Caregivers -- Tuesday, May 12 at 7 PM Momentum in Science, Part 2 --Tuesday, May 12 at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. EST –

How We Saved $624.72 on Prescription Drugs

clipped from www.alzheimersreadingroom.com The FDA has granted special permission for two, five year old twins girls, to receive intravenous infusions of 2-Hydroxypropyl-beta-Cyclodextrin (also known as HPBCD). The girls received the go ahead for the treatment after a "compassionate use" exception was granted. The girls are suffering from Niemann Pick Type C disease, a fatal cholesterol metabolism disorder that is often referred to as the "Childhood Alzheimer’s".

Housing Starts Like a Bullet Hitting Water (Chart)

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Penn State Solar Decathlon team ready to make Natural Fusion a reality

clipped from www.pennstateclips.com "Natural Fusion was born out of the idea of building an integrated house and using things that have been used for years but in a new way," said ThomasRauch, team member and media liaison. "Its redefining the engineering processand what is considered the cross-disciplinary educational process."

Industrial Production--A Picture Worth a Thousand Words

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Doctors not Good at Detecting Alzheimer's and Dementia

clipped from www.alzheimersreadingroom.com Diagnosing mild-to-moderate dementia cases can be difficult. Indeed, more than half of such cases are not recognized by physicians, according to a recent review of the literature at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

30 Year Treasury in Perspective (Graph)

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80 Percent of Medical Bills Contain Errors -- Fighting Mistakes

clipped from www.alzheimersreadingroom.com Problems with medical billing errors drive me crazy. Not our bills, but the medical bills of relatives and friends. They complain to me all the time. I start by telling them--you are complaining to the wrong person. Then I explain to them what to do about it--pick up the phone and call whoever is billing you. I learned a long time ago, you can negotiate down the price of any medical bill. Don't be afraid to pick up the phone and say--I refuse to pay that amount. Experience tells me that you can get a 20 percent reduction just by opening your mouth--by being proactive. By the way, being proactive does not mean being mean. Start by remembering this, the person on the other end of the phone is just like you or me--they are doing a job. So treat them with respect.  You can get more with sugar then you can with vinegar. If you run into a brick wall, try the above then use my favorite word--Supervisor.

Can you drive with Alzheimer's

clipped from www.alzheimersreadingroom.com My mother drove her car over one of those white, concrete abutments in the parking lot. She scrapped against a tree-- the tree tore off the entire passenger side of her car, front to back. She stopped when she bounced off the wall of her building. It turned out this was more than a "senior moment". Eighteen months later my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Women collect dolls to benefit Alzheimer's patients

clipped from www.alzheimersreadingroom.com Wonderful people. ...the daughter felt sad and "shook up" when leaving St. Elizabeth's after a visit. "After we gave her the baby doll, I never felt sad again when I left," she said. "So it was very liberating for me." Two Catonsville mothers, Wendy Geist and Amy Nelson, have initiated a volunteer project of collecting used dolls to ease the suffering and bring joy to seniors experiencing Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. The women say, " beneficial effects can be amazing."

S & P 500 Up 24.53 Percent in 20 Days (Chart)

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Real Unemployment 15.6 Percent

clipped from efhutton.blogspot.com U-6 Total unemployed plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers The number reported today for this series is 15.6 % (the non-seasonally adjusted number is worse at 16.2 %). This compares to 9.1 percent reported March, 2008.