Dementia’s Growing Cost to Caregivers
April 29, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A recent RAND study offers some of the most comprehensive and credible estimates to date of the monetary costs of dementia in the United States.
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Alzheimer’s Smell Test Not Ready for Prime Time
May 2, 2012 | News Release
Current research does not support the use of smell tests for predicting Alzheimer’s dementia, according to a comprehensive review by RWJF Clinical Scholars.
Preservation of the Capacity to Appoint a Proxy Decision Maker
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Alzheimers researchers face the ethical question of how to obtain consent from patients whose decision-making is impaired. This study compared the ability of Alzheimers patients to provide their own consent to their capacity to appoint a research proxy.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Alzheimer's Disease
March 12, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
A fundamental task of medicine is stratifying people into clinically meaningful categories. The term “stratifying” describes how physicians divide the sick from the well and then divide the sick into different stages of disease. In other words, the ...
Human Capital News Roundup: Study partners for Alzheimer's patients, medication color changes, the 'bystander effect,' and more.
January 10, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of RWJF leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees
Human Capital News Roundup: Support for brain injury patients, school health programs, Alzheimer's treatment and more.
February 16, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Here’s a sampling of recent news coverage of the work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars and Fellows: Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, senior adviser for nursing at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and director of The Future of N ...
Human Capital News Roundup: Smell tests for Alzheimer's, "difficult" patients, physicians' social media use, and more.
May 10, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples: Although losing a sense of smell is associated with the ...
Scholar Sheds New Light on Link Between Exercise and Cognitive Function
February 11, 2010 | Story
Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Scholar offers new hope for older people hoping to prevent cognitive decline.