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		<title>Alzheimer&#8217;s Association &#8212; Memory Walk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Memory Walk began in 1989 and in 1993, it became a a nationwide event for the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association. Memory Walk is our country&#8217;s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer care, support and research. Since its inception it has raised well over $200 million nationally. For every dollar raised at Memory Walk, only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Research &#8212; Volunteers Needed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In three days, it will be 15 years since my father passed away. September also marks one year since I started this blog. It has opened my eyes (and my brain) to so many things. I&#8217;ve written about a variety of subjects, a number of them focused on research. Most recently, I got involved in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutalz.com/?p=1041</link>
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		<title>Allelic Association to Study the Genetics of Cognitive Aging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw an ad in a favorite little periodical I receive called the Golden Gazette. It&#8217;s published for senior adults in the county I live in. The ad read: Healthy Adults 40 &#38; Older Needed for Research Study. That caught my attention. I read further: The ARCH Lab at George Mason University, Fairfax campus, needs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutalz.com/?p=1033</link>
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		<title>Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease &#8212; Can delaying retirement delay AD?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last spring the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry reported that for males, by delaying retirement, the age of onset of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease (AD) was also delayed. On average, each additional year of work staved off Alzheimer&#8217;s disease by seven weeks. Not known are questions such as: Did retirement somehow bring on the disease? Are people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutalz.com/?p=1005</link>
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		<title>10 Ways to Maintain Your Brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Alzheimer&#8217;s Association has a booklet called, Maintain Your Brain, and subtitled &#8212; there is growing evidence that lifestyle can affect your brain health. You can obtain this 16-page online booklet by clicking here. If you want a quick summary, the 10 ways to maintain your brain discussed are: Head first Good health starts with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smell Test Predicts Performance on Delayed Recall Memory Test in Elderly with Depression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In September 2008, the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry published an interesting article: Smell test predicts performance on delayed recall memory test in elderly with depression. Who would&#8217;ve thought that a smell test might be a tool to forecast cognitive impairment. But it turns out that the elderly, particularly those diagnosed with depression, have an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease &#8212; Caregiver Resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a booklet, In It Together, written  by Danielle Ripich, Ph.D. It was published by a pharmaceutical company in 2005. Dr. Ripich is the dean of the College of Health Professions of The Medical University of South Carolina. Her FOCUSED program to train caregivers of people with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease received a major award from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutalz.com/?p=861</link>
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		<title>ICAD 2010 &#8212; International Conference on Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of news about Alzheimer&#8217;s disease recently because of the annual meeting of the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association International Conference on Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease (AAICAD) which met from July 10 to 15, 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The AAICAD is the world&#8217;s largest conference of its kind. It brought together almost 4,000 researchers from around the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutalz.com/?p=799</link>
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		<title>Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease &#8212; Protection for Cancer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are two evils &#8212; Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and cancer. Which would you choose? Of course, neither. I recently read something that said if you have Alzheimer&#8217;s you&#8217;re not likely to get cancer and vice versa, if you get cancer, you&#8217;re not likely to get Alzheimer&#8217;s. So that got me researching &#8212; is Alzheimer&#8217;s disease protection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutalz.com/?p=761</link>
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		<title>Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease &#8212; Plaque Buildup in Retinas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We already know that in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease (AD) there is amyloid plaque that builds up in the brain which causes the AD. Now, scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California report that the same nerve cell-damaging plaque also builds up in the retinas of the eyes. Moreover, it shows up in the retinas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aboutalz.com/?p=720</link>
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