The goal of the Alzheimer's Reading Room is to Educate, sometimes Entertain, and Empower Alzheimer's caregivers, their families, and the entire Alzheimer's community.
At the Alzheimer's Reading Room, we offer "real life" solutions to problems that Alzheimer's caregivers face each day.
The site focuses on Alzheimer's disease and the art of Alzheimer's caregiving.
On the Alzheimer's Reading Room, we tackle real world problems and offer advice and solutions on issues like: repetitive questioning, challenging behavior, how to understand Alzheimer's disease, how to cope with the disease, and how to communicate effectively with a person living with dementia.
We understand the most common problems like: wandering, urinary tract infections, incontinence, showering, toileting, dental care, driving, caregiver loneliness, nursing home selection, memory care facilities, treatments, medications, hospice, and managing expectations as the disease progresses.
We discuss issues that are important to Alzheimer's caregivers. We provide specific insight, advice, and solutions based on real life experience.
We have a growing number of Alzheimer's professionals that willingly share their advice, knowledge, and experience.
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
I started the Alzheimer’s Reading Room to keep track of the thousands of articles and many books I was reading about Alzheimer's disease.
Soon after I started the blog, I began to receive emails from Alzheimer's caregivers from all over the world. First an email here and there, and now thousands of emails.
I soon realized that Alzheimer's caregivers are often thrust into their role with little or no experience, training, or education about Alzheimer's disease. As a result, they are often overwhelmed and suffer from feelings of helplessness. Forty percent of Alzheimer's caregivers suffer from depression.
150 Million people have been touched by Alzheimer's disease, and 50 million are worried about Alzheimer's. Each day, 1,232 people are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
At its core the Alzheimer's Reading Room is about advice and insight into Alzheimer's disease.
As I gained experience in caring for my mother, I decided to start writing more about the success we were having in fighting the disease. I learned that the more I let her do the more she could do. I learned that there were solutions to the problems that face Alzheimer's caregivers each day.
I am a full time Alzheimer's caregiver.
I found when I started to write about the "real world" experience of Alzheimer's on this blog, more people started to find us. Readers started to tell family, friends, support group members, and other interested parties about the Alzheimer's Reading Room.
We do not advertise or market our service, in spite of this The Alzheimer's Reading Room is growing fast. As it grows, so does the collective brain of the blog.
We encourage every single reader to comment or to share their experiences with us. On this blog we learn from each other. Most importantly, we learn that we are not alone.
Our readers include some of the world's top scientists, clinicians, doctors, nurses, and professionals in the field. But mostly, the readers are caregivers searching for answers to every day problems.
Facts
- The Alzheimer's Reading Room is the number one source of life news for the entire Alzheimer's community.
- The Alzheimer's Reading Room is the largest blog of its type (Alzheimer's) on the Internet, and is benchmarked by Google at number one.
- The Alzheimer's Reading Room contains more than 3,260 articles in its knowledge base, and has over 400,000 link backs on the Internet.
- Articles from the Alzheimer's Reading Room have been syndicated on Reuters, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, Time Warner, Chicago Sun Times, Houston Chronicle, Livestrong, Cox News, and Palm Beach Post (to name a few).
- More than 327 news sites, websites, and blogs link to the Alzheimer's Reading Room.
- The Alzheimer's Reading Room was founded by Bob DeMarco.
- After caring for his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's, Bob realized there was a need for high quality information that could be used by Alzheimer’s caregivers to care for their loved one.
- The Alzheimer's Reading Room has more than 7,600 subscribers, and averages over 50,000 unique readers each month.
- The Alzheimer's Reading Room has grown every single day since January 1, 2010.
Go here to learn more about Bob DeMarco.
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Original content Bob DeMarco, the Alzheimer's Reading Room
12/17
