Geriatric Medicine

KSDK Knows When You're Going to Die, Based on ZIP Code

To hype last night's "I-Team Investigation," KSDK-TV (Channel 5) had been running a promo piece that featured two cartoon guys. Cartoon Guy No. 1 is Joe, who, the voiceover says, lives in St. Charles. He's got glasses and kind of looks like George Costanza. Cartoon Guy No. 2, Doug, favors a young Pa ... More >>

Researchers Discover Marker That Predicts Speed of Mental Decline from Alzheimer's

If you're at all prone to hypochondria, here's another thing to keep you up late worrying: Researchers at Washington University Medical School have discovered a new marker that shows how rapidly your mental faculties will decline, should you develop Alzheimer's. In a recent study, patients with a h ... More >>

New Research Shows that Bad Sleeping is Linked to Alzheimer's

Let it not be said that Paul Shaw didn't warn us. When Riverfront Times profiled the Washington University neuroscientist and self-described sleep evangelist this past fall, Shaw talked at length about the ill-effects of sleep deprivation, particularly interrupted sleep, which could lead to problems ... More >>

At Last, a Tracking Device That Will Find Your Loved One in 30 Minutes Or Less

Aimee LevittPresenting the EmSeeQ, the device that can find your cognitively-impaired loved one in 30 minutes or less.​It costs between $5,000 and $50,000 for a sheriff's department to locate a missing person, depending on whether the search takes hours or days. That includes overtime pay for ... More >>

Steven Gartenberg: St. Louis Attorney Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

The money was supposed to go to the Kirkwood United Methodist Church and Alzheimer's Association. Instead it went into the pocket of the lawyer who'd been hired to help manage an estate.The attorney in question, Steven Gartenberg, 46, pleaded guilty this week to two separate counts of mail fraud inv ... More >>

New Wash. U. Study Detects Super-Early Signs of Alzheimer's

image viaDr. Yvette I. Sheline​If you're genetically disposed to develop Alzheimer's, researchers at Washington University Medical School have some good news and some bad news for you. The good news is, they've recently discovered that your brain starts functioning differently even before it ... More >>

New Supports For LGBT Caregivers

​It's hard enough caring for a loved one fading into dementia. When issues surrounding sexual identity are at play, things can get downright complicated.So, to that end, a new support group for caregivers is forming as a collaborative effort between the Alzheimer's Association and SAGE Metro St. L ... More >>

Study Shows Family, Friends Better Than Doctors at Detecting Early Signs of Alzheimer's

image via​It seems logical that when someone's brain is starting to deteriorate, her family and friends who see her every day would be more likely to pick up on it rather than a doctor who does a screening once a year. Now doctors at the Washington University School of Medicine's Charles F. a ... More >>

Local Man With Alzheimer's Missing

John Hussey​An elderly St. Louis man with Alzheimer's disease has been missing since about noon, and his family is seeking help locating him.John Hussey, 79, left the Dierberg's in Florissant in his family's four-door, aloe-colored Toyota Camry. Hussey is a white man, 5'9" and 175 pounds with gree ... More >>

Unreal Forgets Alzheimer's Awareness Month!

www.stationbay.com​Unreal's inbox overfloweth on Mondays, so you can imagine our discombobulation when a missive pops in from Amanda Hassler, a flack at BrightonUSA who wants to know if RFT is covering Alzheimer's Awareness Month.OMG! We forgot!If you or a loved one has a similar problem, the ... More >>

Memory Loss

Love and marriage meet life and Alzheimer's in Away from Her.

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown, Paul Friswold and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Survivor's Quilt

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Tim Ries Presents the Rolling Stones Project

Thursday, January 26; Finale Music & Dining, (8025 Bonhomme Avenue, Clayton)

Senior Moment

Jan Decleir shines as a senile hit man in The Memory of a Killer

A Closing Iris

A writer's long descent into Alzheimer's makes for gripping storytelling

Best Scrambled Tofu

MoKaBe's Coffee House