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Helpline
The Alzheimer's Association Helpline operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in 140 languages. Our staff is highly trained and knowledgeable about all aspects of Alzheimer’s disease. Call us if you have questions about:
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Alzheimer’s disease or memory loss, medications and treatment options, brain health and care options
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How the Association can help you
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Caregiving tips and respite care options
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Services available in your community and referrals
You can also call us for emotional support –– as often as you need. We know that living with Alzheimer’s can be overwhelming at times. Remember, we are here for you –– all day, every day. 1.800.272.3900
E-mail help
Click here to contact us via our on-line form
Care consultation
Our professional staff is dedicated to helping people navigate through the difficult decisions and uncertainties people with Alzheimer’s and their families face at every stage of the disease. We can provide care consultation services to you by telephone, e-mail or in person. These include:
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Assessment of needs
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Assistance with planning and problem solving
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Supportive listening
Contact us for more information:
Click here to contact us via our on-line form
Support groups
We offer a variety of support groups for all individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease. Groups are facilitated by trained volunteers. Many locations offer specialized groups for children, those with early-onset and early-stage Alzheimer’s, adult caregivers and others with specific needs.
Message boards
The Alzheimer’s Association message boards and chat rooms provide an online community for persons with Alzheimer's, caregivers and care providers. Our message boards have thousands of registered members from around the United States and thousands more who refer to the stories and information that is available 24 hours a day.
Join the Alzheimer’s Association online community.
Publications
The Alzheimer’s Association offers dozens of fact sheets and brochures. Click here for an alphabetical listing.
Our Publications List (pdf) contains over 50 titles, including books and brochures, and a convenient order form.
Also, check our Discontinued Books list (pdf) for many excellent titles at discounted prices.
Our collection of videos and DVDs is available for use by professionals, families and people with Alzheimer's disease. You may rent up to three videos at a time for $10 each. Download our video list with order form here (pdf)
Our Assisted Living Consumer Guide and our Nursing Home Consumer guide have been developed as family resources.
Click here to view our Assisted Living Consumer Guide
Click here to view our Nursing Home Consumer Guide
Newsletter
Sign up for our newsletter.
Educational programs
We offer many educational programs each year that address the specific interests of the general public, individuals with the disease and their families.
Programs include Getting Started: What To Do When Your Family Member Has Memory Loss, Legal and Financial Issues and Answers, and Alzheimer's 101.
Safe Return®
Alzheimer's Association Safe Return® is a nationwide identification, support and enrollment program that provides assistance when someone with Alzheimer's or a related dementia wanders and becomes lost. Assistance is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If an enrollee is missing, one phone call immediately activates a community support network to help reunite the lost person with his or her caregiver.
Local resources and referrals
We maintain updated information on home care, adult day care, care coordination, assisted living, skilled nursing facilities, eldercare lawyers and transportation available in the community. Our staff and trained professionals can help assess whether a specific care provider meets the needs of an individual with Alzheimer’s.
For more information, please contact us:
By phone: 1.800.272.3900
Click here to contact us via our on-line form
Clinical trials index
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Local clinical trials: Sponsored by the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study, a clinical trial consortium of the National Institute on Aging, the study is designed to determine if DHA (docosahexaeonic acid) supplementation slows the progression of cognitive and functional decline in men or women age 50 or older with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. DHA is an Omega 3 fatty acid. Study sites include:
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon
Contact Nadia Pare, PhD, at 603-650-5824 or e-mail nadia.pare@dartmouth.edu - Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Clinical and Research Program
Contact Erin Whalen at 617-414-1078 or e-mail erin.whalen@bu.edu - Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
Contact Konique Ballah, MPH, at 617-732-8085 or e-mail kballah@partners.org
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon
Click here to view our Directory of Research Opportunities for People with Dementia and Their Families
