• Donate
  • Subscribe to Newsletter
  • Home
  • About
    • Awards & Recognition
    • Our Mission
    • Our Board
    • Be Our Sponsor!
    • Donors & Supporters
    • Editorial Policy & Terms of Use
    • Comments Policy
    • Our Team
  • Topics
    • Aging
    • Children’s Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Gender health
    • Health Inequities
    • Medicaid
    • Mental Health
    • Oral Health
    • Prison Health
    • Public Health
    • State Health Policy
    • Rural Health
  • Series
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • Seeking Help and Getting Handcuffed
    • Unequal Treatment: Mental health parity in North Carolina
    • Storm stories – NC Health News works with teens from SE North Carolina to tell their hurricane experiences
    • Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S. could learn from them.
  • Health Care Half Hour
  • Contact
  • Health Job Listings
  • Newsletter
  • En Español
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
North Carolina Health News

North Carolina Health News

News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.

Donate

Read our Coronavirus Coverage Here

Tag: Alzheimer’s N.C.

shows brightly colored brain scans of patients with dementia and one without dementia
Posted inAging

Poor financial skills, exploitation tied to dementia

by Thomas Goldsmith July 17, 2019July 16, 2019

By Thomas Goldsmith People in later life have often built up assets that reflect a lifetime of work. They may also be experiencing the build-up of dementia-related plaque deposits in the brain. When both situations happen at once, personal catastrophe can result. New research at Duke University shows that even early stages of Alzheimer’s disease […]

A bulletin board at Thursday's Candlelight Reflections gathering is filled with photographs of friends and loved ones who had been affected by Alzheimer's disease.​ Photograph by Thomas Goldsmith.
Posted inAging, Chronic Disease, Disabilities, NC Health Briefs

‘Reflections’ Presents Memories, Realities of People with Dementia

by Thomas Goldsmith November 15, 2016November 15, 2016
Posted inAging, Chronic Disease, Featured, Long Term Care, Medicare, Research News

Lewy Body Dementia Finally Merits Attention, Research

by Thomas Goldsmith November 1, 2016October 31, 2016
Bill and Joan McCormick at home in Hillsborough, 2011. Photo by Michelle Cerulli.
Posted inFeatured, Long Term Care, Medicare

Alzheimer’s On The Mind – Everybody Has Their Limits

by Correspondent August 20, 2012November 17, 2021
Bill and Joan McCormick with their newest grandchild, 2012. Photo courtesy McCormick family.
Posted inFeatured, Long Term Care, Medicare

Alzheimer’s On The Mind – Always Adjusting

by Correspondent August 16, 2012November 17, 2021

Subscribe to our Newsletter

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Latest News

Billion-dollar spending plan approved by NC lawmakers lacks health care focus

Billion-dollar spending plan approved by NC lawmakers lacks health care focus

July 1, 2022June 30, 2022
An attempt to streamline mental health care for NC foster care children meets resistance

An attempt to streamline mental health care for NC foster care children meets resistance

June 30, 2022June 29, 2022
Yet another attempt to expand Medicaid in NC

Yet another attempt to expand Medicaid in NC

June 29, 2022June 29, 2022

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
© 2022 News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic