Jane Zuber Garrison (December 6, 1932- April 19, 2014) Jane Zuber Garrison, 81, wife of Robert C. Garrison, MD, died April 19, 2014 at the Huntcliff Sunrise Assisted Living facility in Sandy Springs, GA, after several years of incapacitating Alzheimer’s Diesase. Born December 6, 1932, in Birmingham, Alabama, she was the daughter of ...
September 27, 2023
One of the many challenges presented by Alzheimer’s disease is that different patients decline at very different rates. A recent study suggests differences in tau, the protein that makes up the neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer’s pathology, may help explain this observation between individuals. Among the authors are two members of ...
October 23, 2020
Cure Alzheimer’s Fund is pleased to see the passage of the 21st Centuries Cures Act in the House of Representatives. The overwhelming bipartisan support for the bill shows the need for legislation to improve the process of getting to cures for life-threatening diseases like Alzheimer’s. The legislation calls for increased investment ...
July 10, 2015
Alzheimer’s disease and Type II diabetes long have been observed to have a clinical connection, with patients with diabetes more than twice as likely as those without the disease to develop Alzheimer’s. But the precise nature of this connection has been a mystery until recently. Over the last few years, ...
March 6, 2012
The Northbridge Companies, a New England-based senior living provider, held a reception to celebrate its 2016 fund drive for Cure Alzheimer’s Fund. “This cause is very close to our hearts,” said Wendy Nowokunski, president of the Northbridge Companies. “When my partner, Jim Coughlin, and I formed Northbridge we knew we ...
December 13, 2016
Right: In recent years, Alzheimer’s mortality has increased by 68%, while mortality rates for all other leading causes of death have fallen. Causes of death are typically analyzed by looking at death certificate data. Using this method, Alzheimer’s disease has typically been considered the 6th leading cause of death in the ...
March 7, 2014
November 5, 2021
Norma Jean (Patton) Demorest, age 82, died peacefully at the Atria Del Sol memory care home in Mission Viejo, California on Monday, September 4th, 2017. The cause was complications associated with late stage Alzheimer’s disease. Born January 10, 1935, in Wellston Ohio, to Theora Grace Wood and Joseph Patton, she graduated ...
September 24, 2017
From the age of 2, when he disassembled his brother’s mechanical duck and his father praised him for his curiosity, Charlie Glabe was always interested in the way things work. In college he supported himself as a car mechanic, but found his true passion in scientific research. Today Charlie is ...
November 7, 2014
Boomerangfit is a group of Baby Boomers committed to returning to the fitness we once had in our 20s and 30s. There is no reason we need to succumb to the “normal” ramifications of age if we eat right, move, exercise, sleep, laugh and enjoy life. Additionally, we are committed ...
June 25, 2015
