About Alzheimer's Disease: Children and Grandchildren

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Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's Disease Symptoms / Diagnosis Treatment Coping From Andrew Rosenzweig, MD, your Guide to Alzheimer's Disease With the holidays fast approaching, families often can't avoid the inevitable coming together of children and relatives with Alzheimer's disease. In a recent blog post, I noted that in South Korea, clever ways of discussing dementia with kindergarden children are occurring, by using tofu to illustrate how the brain gets damaged in Alzheimer's disease. We need to do a better job of talking to our youngsters about dementia, so I've decided to devote this week's newsletter to this important issue. Helping a Child Whose Grandparent Has Alzheimer's Even well educated adults have trouble understanding Alzheimer's disease, the behaviors that often accompany it, and the best ways to communicate with their affected loved ones. To a child, seeing their grandparent with Alzheimer's disease may be frightening, depressing, confusing, and embarrassing.... Read more Talking to Children About Alzheimer's Disease At any age, children can sense discord and stress in their environment, so it's important to address any concerns before kids make erroneous assumptions... Read more Mamma Lou: A Family Copes With Alzheimer's Disease To call Singing with Momma Lou solely a children's book about Alzheimer's Disease is to focus too narrowly. Yes, this children's picture book tells the story of nine year old Tamika and her grandmother, Momma Lou, who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease, and the author does an excellent job of it.... Read more Books, Mags, and Movies Now that Alzheimer's has finally been recognized as significantly impacting society, an abundance of books, magazines, and movies have been created addressing different aspects of the disease. Alzheimer's Disease Ads Children Alzheimer 'S Disease Family Law Children Anger in Children Children 'S Books Featured Articles Glossary Alzheimer's Basics Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease Treatment Options for Alzheimer's Disease If You Have Alzheimer's Disease   More from About.com Thanksgiving Recipes Herb-roasted turkey with cornbread stuffing, cranberry relish and roasted squash, sweet and tart fruit pies, and many more. More> Choose the Perfect Gift Whether you're looking for teens, teachers, grandparents or even pets, we have suggestions to make shopping easier. More> This newsletter is written by: Andrew Rosenzweig, MD Alzheimer's Disease Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Alzheimer's Disease newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Must Reads What is Alzheimer's Symptoms of Alzheimer's Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Treatment of Alzheimer's Living With Alzheimer's Advertisement