Over 120,000 people age 65+ in Washington State, and more than 5.8 million nationally, are living with Alzheimer’s disease. Without effective treatment or cure, the impact of Alzheimer’s will continue to rise. This drives the Alzheimer’s Association’s investments in research to understand the basic biology underlying Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Hiking and walking <em>do</em> give me joy: the jaw-dropping vista of Mount Rainier filling the horizon on the Naches Peak Loop Trail, the roar of water cascading down Twin Falls on the Snoqualmie River, the snow-capped peaks at Olympic National Park. All that beauty is part of me now. I ...
In 2014, one of my now retired colleagues, Lyle Sorensen, MD, said to then 57-year-old Seattle resident, Mary Lou Hanske, “You definitely needed a new knee,” when she was in the recovery room following total knee replacement surgery
By …BY MATHEW NICHOLLS, MD, PHD, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | May 1, 2019
Providence ElderPlace West Seattle is a stand-alone program housed at Providence Mount St. Vincent assisted living and skilled nursing home. It offers West and South Seattle residents an innovative program that provides medical care and social services to seniors who wish to continue to live in the community, thus avoiding ...
Providence ElderPlace Redmond offers residents on the Eastside of Lake Washington an innovative program that provides medical care and social services to seniors who wish to continue to live in the community, thus avoiding or minimizing stays in hospitals and nursing homes.
The Social Security Administration announced the launch of a new Health IT initiative with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that enables all Social Security disability case processing sites to receive medical records electronically from all VA facilities.