Caregiver Resource Center

Welcome to ACS Caregiver Resource Center. We understand the unique challenges that come along with caring for a loved one afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease.

Let our experience help you! Our staff has years of knowledge and experience to share. Here we offer a wealth of information to help you in caring for your loved one.

Recent Articles

The Alzheimer’s Caregiver: Accepting Help

Most caregivers love to give regardless, and have lived lives serving their families, their faith, and their communities. Yet the challenge sometimes is not in giving, but in asking for and accepting help.

Alzheimer’s, Anticipatory Grief, and Ambiguous Loss: Saying Goodbye but Still Here

As a caregiver to someone with Alzheimer’s, you may often find yourself facing doubts and questions on a daily basis.

FDA Plans Looser Rules on Approving Alzheimer’s Drugs

The Food and Drug Administration plans to loosen the rules for approving new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.

Understanding Behavior for Alzheimer’s Caregivers

Understanding behavior and how it can change when someone has Alzheimer’s is important for our caregiving skills. Alzheimer’s is a neurodegenerative disease in which huge damage is caused as brain cells die. Memory, language, perception, how our brains interpret messages from our senses and motivations are all affected by Alzheimer’s.

Spring Cleaning: Refresh Your Caregiving Routines

It’s a human tendency to get stuck in a rut as we carry out life’s demands, and caregiving is no exception. With spring nearly upon us, it’s a good time to take a fresh look at our caregiving lives to see if there are areas that need improvement or at least a fresh approach.

How Chronic Stress Accelerates Alzheimer’s

Why does chronic stress lead to increased risk for dementia? The answer may lie in the elevation of stress steroids that is seen in the brain during stress.

Alzheimer’s Drug Add-On Brings Some Memory Improvement

In patients with moderate Alzheimer’s disease, an experimental drug that alters the brain’s “fight or flight” impulse succeeded in improving memory modestly when it was added to at least one of the medications already in wide use to treat the memory-robbing disease.

The Dementia Tsunami

Anyone who has ever encountered someone who has dementia, much less been involved in the intense care for or a loved one with the wretched disease, has three thoughts that permeate his or her mind:

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