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There's a tendency to think of "Alzheimer's Disease" and "dementia" interchangeably.  Fact is, however, that people who are suffering with dementia are not victims of Alzheimer's.  Indeed, Alzheimer's Disease accounts for about one-half to three-quarters of dementia cases; the remainder are due to blood vessel disease, stroke, and other ailments that affect the brain. 

Great Places, Inc. continues to grow in both customers and viewership.  We hit our highest 30-day total in October with 5347 visitors.  Our visitors came from every state, viewed more than 25,000 pages while on the site.  Nearly 90 percent of them were new customers!  Not surprisingly, the hot search topics continue to be in-home health care, assisted living and independent living.

Every adult—and certainly every senior--needs six documents. They’re essential papers that let your family know exactly what you want done with your property after your death and how you’d prefer to be taken care of if you’re unable to speak for yourself during your last illness.

Australian researchers have found that long-term heavy use of marijuana may cause parts of the brain to shrink.  Here are the details:

Comfort Keepers® works to help people live independently in their own homes as long as possible.  Here's more:

The Pets For the Elderly Foundation is a non-profit foundation dedicated to providing lonely elderly people and innocent unwanted animals "the gift of life, health and happiness."

Certain eldercare health risks have been identified as predicting the need for careful eldercare planning.  These include confusion, memory loss, falling and appetite loss among others.

 The oldest of the nation’s 75 million Baby Boomers recently turned 60. A survey by the Pew Research Center finds that many of them are planning their own retirement while balancing family responsibilities.  They're either raising minor children or providing various kinds of support to their adult children as well as their own aging parents.

National study concludes millions can benefit from cholesterol-lowering drugs--statins--even if they have low cholesterol levels. 

The study finds that statins significantly lower risk of heart attacks, strokes and death.  Here's more:

. . .   "The Week," a newsmagazine, publishes an article in its November 7, 2008 edition letting us know that Ms. Hilton is concerned about Einstein's Theory of Relativity.  Here's more: