by Barry Spiker | Jan 23, 2020 | Barry's Blog
The numbers are astounding! Every three seconds someone in the world is diagnosed with dementia. Nearly 50 million people worldwide have dementia and this number is projected to be 75 million in just ten years! Dementia is a huge problem for those family members...
by Barry Spiker | Jan 15, 2020 | Barry's Blog
I met Linda, my friend of nearly 40 years and we drove together to attend the farewell gathering for her husband, Bill, at Banner Alzheimer’s Research Institute in Sun City, Arizona. At Bill’s farewell, Dr. Marwan Sabbagh spoke about the Banner Mission and the legacy...
by Barry Spiker | Jan 15, 2020 | Barry's Blog
Dementia and the nature of the problem, growth rates, statistics and other dementias; Current efforts to mitigate cognitive decline; BEEMS and the failures, actual or predicted by other approaches; The POINTER Study; Caregiving (a series of those issues);...