A new study has found that a memory fitness program offered to older adults in their senior living communities helped improve their ability to recognize and recall words, benefiting their verbal ...
COARSEGOLD, Calif. — In a house on the top of a grassy hill in Coarsegold lives a father, a mother and two dogs who miss Benjamin Pleitez. The 25-year-old died in Afghanistan in 2012, where Pleitez ...
WAUPUN - Theresa Menting from the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Fond du Lac County recently spoke to the Waupun Lions Club about the Music and Memory program of Fond du Lac County. The Music ...
oodwin House, a senior living and health care services organization based in the Washington D.C. area, will unveil a new program on World Alzheimer’s Awareness Day (September 21) designed to help ...
Building on the success of Memory Cafés — held twice each month at Sonoma United Methodist Church to provide engaging activities for those living with dementia and their care partners — a new café ...
UNION GROVE, Wis. (AP) — Mike Knutson taught himself to play the harmonica as a child, and the 96-year-old sang with his family for most of his life. Even now, as he suffers from dementia, music is an ...
More than 500 Vietnam veterans, including 26 from Iowa, will be inducted into the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s In Memory program next month. In Memory, a program that honors Vietnam veterans who ...
PROVIDENCE – Dr. Stephen Salloway, director of the Memory and Aging Program at Butler Hospital and one of the nation’s leading Alzheimer’s disease researchers, is stepping down, the hospital announced ...