Does Vitamin B Prevent Alzheimer's, and How Vitamin B Saved Us over $8,000

Yes, after reading about Vitamin B in 2007 I asked our doctor to give Dotty a monthly B12 shot. He agreed. Did it help? I believe it did. One thing for certain, it saved us over $8,000.

By Bob DeMarco
+Alzheimer's Reading Room 

A couple of days ago a story with this headline appeared in The Telegraph - Vitamin B could stave off Alzheimers. It appears this has triggered off the usual media copy cat frenzy, the latest story in a long list of copy cat stories coming from MSN.

The bottom line here is simple and straightforward - it appears Vitamin B may protect against brain shrinkage. We actually wrote about this and the now hot Oxford University study in 2008 - Vitamin B12 May Protect Against Brain Shrinkage in Baby Boomers. Old news huh?

We have a boatload of stories here on the Alzheimer's Reading Room referring to vitamin B, B12, and even Nicotinamide. You can enter any of those keywords into the search box over on the right hand side of the page and find tons of intellectual capital in our Alzheimer's Reading Room Knowledge Base.

Now I want to get to my main point.

Yes, after reading about Vitamin B in 2007 I asked our doctor to give Dotty a monthly B12 shot. He agreed. 

Did it help? I believe it did. 

One thing for certain, it saved us over $8,000. Read the end of this article to find out how.

Rewiring My Brain and Stepping into Alzheimer's World

Once you start to understand how things work in Alzheimer's World you get calm and comfortable. Once you get calm and comfortable you give off a better "vibe" to someone that has Alzheimer's.

By +Bob DeMarco 
+Alzheimer's Reading Room 

I would find a new way to communicate with my mother who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

I wrote that on my da Vinci pad in 2004. This was at the same time I was coming to another conclusion, something had to change and that something was me.

I did not perceived the changes in communication as being difficult. After all, I had been studying communication and decision making all the way back to college days, and ever since. I figured some practice and I would get the hang of it.

What I did not immediately perceive was how difficult it would be to change all the things I had learned over the course of my life.

For example, I had to learn how NOT to feel bad when my mother said something mean spirited to me.

Dementia Awareness Week 2013 Ruth Jones

Dementia Awareness Week is 19-25 May 2013. The theme for this year's campaign is talking.

+Alzheimer's Reading Room

Worrying changes nothing. Talking changes everything. Ruth Jones tells us why she thinks it's important to talk about Dementia Awareness Week.

We're all living longer. That means we're all facing a higher risk of one day developing dementia. It may be you. Or it may be someone in your family.

But what can you do about it? How do you recognise the signs? And how will you cope if you or someone you love develops dementia? One thing's certain. The more we know about dementia, the more prepared we'll be to face it.

Dementia Awareness Week is 19-25 May 2013. The theme for this year's campaign is talking, and there will be activities and events across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Study Examines Cognitive Impairment in Families With Exceptional Longevity

By +Bob DeMarco
+Alzheimer's Reading Room 

This study caught my attention because there is exceptional longevity on my mother's side of the family.

The finding here indicates that dementia is delayed in members of long lived families, but exceptional longevity does not provide aditional protection later in life.