There are 10 article(s) tagged Alzheimer's disease:

• February 2025

  • Caring for the caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients

    When Zelda Fitzgerald Hill’s mother struggled to care for his father who had Alzheimer’s disease, he and his sisters stepped in to divvy responsibilities and provide their mother with support.

    By Aisling Mäki February 02, 2025

• February 2024

  • Calkins: The sweetest story in a lost Grizzlies season

    Chuck Gallina’s mother, Mimi, has Alzheimer’s disease, but he still takes her to all the Memphis Grizzlies’ home games. And, even during this lost NBA season, those games have come to mean something more to this family — and it can teach us all about love. 

    By Geoff Calkins February 13, 2024

• May 2021

  • The things we leave out at Mother’s Day

    “Maybe most of all, my mother was a woman who loved her two boys, my brother and me, more than anything. It’s all in the obit. And it’s all entirely true. But then there are the parts that I left out.”

    By Eric Barnes May 09, 2021

• January 2021

  • Two years after woman goes missing, family still holds out hope

    The family of Pandora Duckett, a Shelby County woman missing since 2019, has raised $20,000 for information about her whereabouts. 

    By Yolanda Jones January 28, 2021

• November 2020

  • Webinar offers support and advice for dementia and Alzheimer’s patient caregivers

    The previously in-person conference has been replaced by a two-hour webinar, another casualty of the coronavirus.

    By Linda A. Moore November 07, 2020

• July 2019

  • Reward up to $15,000 for missing woman with Alzheimer’s

    The family of Pandora Duckett, a Shelby County woman missing since January, has increased the reward to $15,000 for information or details. 

    By Yolanda Jones July 29, 2019

  • Being polite doesn’t work in the fight against Alzheimer’s

    Alzheimer’s disease is a major health concern in the African-American community. Yet people do not talk about it. Our family excused Gran’s forgetfulness as just getting old. 

    By Marcus Cox July 17, 2019

• June 2019

  • Conaway: A brother remembers

    He was 13 years older, the blond guy in the living room reading books and blowing smoke rings, off to college when I was 5, married and off to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop when I was 12. 

    By Dan Conaway June 14, 2019

• March 2019

  • Pandora Duckett disappearance spotlights dementia safety issue

    Pandora Duckett, an 86-year-old woman with Alzheimer's wandered away from her home 55 days ago. Her family is offering a $10,000 reward for her safe return home. As the population ages, families are turning to tracking devices and ID bracelets to help find their family members if they wander from home. 

    By Yolanda Jones March 24, 2019

• January 2019

  • Clinical trial asks locals to ‘get swabbed’ to link Alzheimer’s, DNA

    A clinical trial company is looking for people who want to know if Alzheimer’s disease is in their DNA. 

    By Michelle Corbet January 08, 2019