> My father just turned sixty and recently retired. He doesn’t socialize as he did before, and I often can’t get him to go out, even to sit on a park bench. He has missed two of our lunch dates in the past three months. Recently I brought him to a gathering of his old friends. They were discussing the latest crisis in the news and he just sat there without saying anything. Afterward, he told me that he didn’t know what they had been talking about. What could be the cause of this? How should I ha [...]
Interview with Dr. Richard Isaacson | Fall 2016 Newsletter
Richard S. Isaacson, M.D., serves as Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, Weill Cornell Memory Disorders Program, and Director of the Neurology Residency Training Program at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Isaacson specializes in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk reduction and treatment, mild cognitive impairment due to AD and pre-clinical AD. His research focuses on nutrition and the implementation of dietary and lifestyle interventions for AD management. This [...]
From the Program Director | Fall 2016 Newsletter
Dear Readers, Much has changed in the more than 25 years that I have been on staff, but one thing remains the same: a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or another dementia hits like a bombshell. It destroys futures, devastates dreams and rewrites the script for the final acts of our lives. Caregivers often feel helpless and hopeless. Unfortunately, medical science has not progressed to the point where we have therapies to cure the disease or stop the progression. What has changed? We know much more ab [...]
President’s Message | Fall 2016 Newsletter
Dear Friends,While no one will ever confuse this CaringKind Caregiver's Guide with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, there are more similarities than you might think. This comedy science fiction novel follows the interstellar misadventures of Arthur Dent, the last man on Earth, as he is thrown into a foreign world facing crisis after crisis, all the while trying to make sense of his new reality. While Alzheimer’s is no laughing matter, this new reality is something that family caregivers c [...]
Fall 2016 Newsletter
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