The “Women of Still Alice” is a print ad that brings together some of the women who used their brains to create this powerful film about Alzheimer’s disease. “Still Alice” is a movie that gives us a rare window into the experience of living with Alzheimer’s disease—a glimpse of the inside looking out.  → Read More

June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness month and to kick it off Chicken Soup for the Soul shared an excerpt from one of their latest titles, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living with Alzheimer’s & Other Dementias by Amy Newmark and Angela Timashenka Geiger.  → Read More

New research sparked by The Shriver Report shows the risk of developing Alzheimer’s is twice as high as breast cancer for women over 60.  → Read More

Today, the Alzheimer’s Association released their follow-up findings to The Shriver Report’s groundbreaking 2010 study, A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s, and the results are staggering. According to the 2014 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, women over the age of 65 are twice as likely to develop the disease of the brain as they are at risk of suffering from breast cancer.  → Read More

Alzheimer’s is an epidemic. Every minute or so—in fact, before you get to the end of this page—someone in this country will develop Alzheimer’s. Millions of people already have been formally diagnosed. Millions more are undiagnosed—or diagnosed with some form of dementia that could actually be Alzheimer’s. And with the 78 million baby boomers now moving into their later years, the cost of Alzheimer’s to American society is expected to be $20 trillion between now and the year 2050.1 That’s right—$20 trillion.  → Read More