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December 12, 2017

Dementia Update Educates Health Care Professionals, Caregivers

Ben Boulden

Dec. 12, 2017 | If nothing improves in dementia care in the next three decades, then by 2050 taking care of people with dementia will cost $1 trillion annually in the United States, a guest speaker warned Dec. 2 during the Dementia Update conference at UAMS. That speaker, Constantine Lyketsos, M.D., professor of psychiatry and…


November 14, 2017

STOP Alzheimer’s Forum Discusses Latest Developments

Benjamin Waldrum

Harry Johns, left, with Jeanne Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Sue Griffin, Ph.D., and Steve Barger, Ph.D. at a reception prior to the STOP Alzheimer's Forum on Oct. 30.

Nov. 14, 2017 | The head of the world’s leading voluntary health association in Alzheimer’s care, support and research had a message for a STOP Alzheimer’s education forum: stay the course. Several dozen people filled the Jo Ellen Ford Auditorium at the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging on Oct. 30 to hear Harry…


June 23, 2016

Coping with Dementia Focus of Free Lecture Series Presented by UAMS Reynold Institute’s Walker Memory Center

Ben Boulden

June 23, 2016 | A series of free lunchtime lectures focused on coping with dementia will be held on Wednesdays through Sept. 14 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. Presented by the Reynolds Institute’s Walker Memory Center, each one-hour “Lunch and Learn — For Patients and Families”…


February 25, 2015

Alzheimer’s Disease Panel Draws Capacity Crowd

Ben Boulden

Feb. 25, 2015 | About 150 people filled the Jo Ellen Ford Auditorium at the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging to capacity Feb. 10 to hear presentations and take part in a question-and-answer discussion of Alzheimer’s disease.