Bob CollinsKarla Hult, the KARE 11 journalist, provided the perfect description of the pain endured by caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s. Read more →
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Tag: Alzheimer’s
Professional sports provides a distraction from life’s realities, but the athletic force field is no match for a scourge like Alzheimer’s. Read more →
“I love her. She’s my mom. She’s still my mom. She’s in there somewhere,”
the bride tells KARE. Read more →
Boyd Huppert’s story last evening on KARE 11 leads us to consider again an old question: Why can’t life be more fair?
He profiled the Linn brothers of Avon, Minn., who lost their father in 1992 when he was killed by a bull, leaving behind a big family and a 1980 Chevy pickup truck.
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Frank and Mary Jo Havlak have been married for 63 years. Eight years ago, Mary started losing her memory. It’s Alzheimer’s. She’s still alive, but she’s gone now.
Frank still visits her every day, Joe Callendar writes in his latest Op-Doc for the New York Times. Read more →
Generally speaking, public radio listeners break down into one of two groups: those who are cool with Garrison Keillor singing and those who consider it fingernails on a chalkboard.
Both groups, however, are likely united with a touching moment Saturday in Milwaukee, from where A Prairie Home Companion originated.
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If there’s a more despicable disease, I’m unaware of it. Perhaps that’s why you don’t hear a lot of politicians criticizing a huge increase in Alzheimer’s research.
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Processing the death of radio icon Tom Magliozzi was easy for most of us. We got to remember the Car Talk laugh machine the way he was.
That’s not the case for his family, his son’s eulogy revealed.
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Glen Campbell, the legendary singer and songwriter, is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s, an illness, of course, with no happy endings.
This week, he released his final ballad, which he recorded in January, right after he stopped performing in public. But he remained faithful to his promise not to hide his journey with the illness so that he could shed light on what 44 million Americans are going through.
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This video is burning up the Internet this week. It’s tragic and lovely at the same time, and it comes with a troubling question: Why is Alzheimer’s so much more common in women? Of the more than 5 million people in the United States who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, two-thirds are women, the Washington Read more →
Banker White, a San Francisco producer, moved back to Boston to care for his mother after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. During the time of her decline, he did what filmmakers do. He filmed. “One of the most striking things that Alzheimer’s has revealed is the strength of my parents’ marriage, even as it alters Read more →
Actor Seth Rogen came a congressional subcommittee to talk about his mother-in-law’s struggle with Alzheimer’s. Many lawmakers ignored him. Read more →
Kids who make a difference, when an NPR journalist destroys NPR journalism, what go wrong with Ticketmaster’s entrance into the scalping market, watching the lights go out with Alzheimer’s, and the Islamic center proposal in St. Cloud. Read more →
The suit to stop the unionization of Minnesota home day-care operators, the unemployment rate drops in Minnesota, how those little memory slips might suggest Alzheimer’s, a man who wanted to testify against Whitey Bulger turns up dead, and the 76-year-old Milwaukee man who doesn’t feel “that bad” about killing a 13-year-old. Here’s today’s news conversation Read more →