alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer’s Disease in San Diego

An estimated 5.2 million people in the United States have Alzheimer’s disease, a number that is expected to grow to 16 million by the year 2050. Specifically, as the “Baby Boomers” age, the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease will proliferate.

“Where Are My Keys?” Understanding and Treating Alzheimer’s Disease in the 21st Century

The San Diego Psychiatric Society, in partnership with the San Diego County Medical Society and the UC San Diego School of Medicine, presented a panel on Feb. 25, 2010, titled: Understanding and Treating Alzheimer’s Disease in the 21st Century. The distinguished panel included Douglas R. Galasko, MD, Lisa Snyder, LCSW, John Daly, MD, and Dan Sewell, MD. Steven A. Ornish, MD, served as panel moderator.

A New Booklet of Laughter and Forgetting

“I’ll never forget the moment when the woman I knew as my mother vanished before my eyes ….”

Entry to the Alzheimer’s world takes us through desolate country, growing colder and more barren as we near the end. Opinions, memories, idiosyncrasies, habits slowly fade into the gray mist; eventually our loved ones may become mute, stolid, as still as the stones of the bitter terrain around them.

Alzheimer’s Disease

Tout casse. Tout passe.
(Everything breaks. Everything passes away.)
— French Proverb

Art helps us to live our lives.
— American Poet Wallace Stevens

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