Are All Dementias Alzheimer's?
I'm surprised when some patients and caregivers confuse dementia and Alzheimer's as one and the same. Each time a family member is suffering from memory loss, the conclusion is always Alzheimer's.

National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association Lead Effort to Update Diagnostic Criteria for Alzheimer's Disease
- News briefing/Q&A: AAICAD 2010, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 11:45 am-12:45 pm Hawai'i Convention Center, Room 321A, 1801 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu - HONOLULU, July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2010 (AAICAD 2010) today presented the first draft reports from three workgroups convened by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Alzheimer's Association to update the diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease for the first time in 25 years. The current criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's were established by a National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)/Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association (ADRDA) workgr ...

The Conditions Of Alzheimer's Dementia Explained
Alzheimers disease is fundamentally a form of mental disorder known as dementia. The disease is by far the most ever-present dementing illness of today with the more common form of Alzheimers disease known as late-onset Alzheimer's.

Alzheimer's Disease
The popular press does not seem to know how to deal with Alzheimer's disease. They alternately make light of it by using jokes about "senior moments" and make it out to be a dark, terrible secret that traumatizes everyone who comes in contact with a sufferer.