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Dr. Hanson offers insights from the POINTER study, a large clinical trial on brain health interventions.

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Categories: Brain Health, News, Brain Health Awareness

Lynn Bekris, PhD, Leader of the ADRC Biomarker Core, shares what she is learning about Alzheimer's disease from samples contributed by ADRC longitudinal study participants.

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Categories: Science Updates, New FDA Drug Approvals, Care & Treatment , Team Spotlights, News

Jamie Bird is a Social Work Practicum Student at the UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center, working on-site at the Memory Hub community center. Jamie chose to complete her practicum at the Memory Hub to learn more about dementia-friendly communities and how this approach could improve dementia care.

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Categories: Team Spotlights, News, Dementia-Friendly Community, Memory Hub Spotlight

Learn about Tonya Clegg's effort to revitalize volunteerism at Harborview after the pandemic and why volunteers are so important to operations in the hospital and in non-clinical spaces like the Memory Hub.

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Categories: Team Spotlights, News

For these studies, researchers used data from participants in the UW ADRC Clinical Core, with gratitude.

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Categories: Science Updates, News

Many care partners wonder how to keep those connections with their loved ones strong. While technology can’t solve every challenge, it can help people stay in touch, feel included, and remain safe. In this article, we’ll share how you can use technology to help your loved one continue to experience the benefits of social connection.

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Categories: Caregiving, News, Technology

Lifestyle interventions in the U.S. POINTER Study improved memory and thinking in older adults at risk of cognitive decline.

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Categories: Science Updates, New FDA Drug Approvals, News

When Makena Crosser's grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she discovered that there weren’t a lot of supportive resources dedicated to youth with loved ones affected by the disease. Now Makena, who is a student at Bainbridge High School ('26), has created a website, Navigating Alzheimer's: A Resource for Youth. She gained perspective from a UW ADRC expert for this project.

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Categories: Care & Treatment , Community Stories, News

With over 103,000 Vietnamese Americans living in Washington and Vietnamese ranked among the most commonly spoken languages here, it was essential for the Dementia Friends program materials to be translated and culturally adapted into Vietnamese for this population.

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Categories: Community Stories, Resources, News, Dementia Friends

MBWC's Justin Miller presented the latest on brain health and aging in a webinar hosted by the AARP, alongside other experts. He discussed the distinctions between normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia. He clarified some of the biggest questions on the minds of community members, such as, What is MCI? And how is MCI different from normal age-related declines?

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Categories: Science Updates, Care & Treatment , News, Brain Health Awareness