Meryl Comer on AARP & Global CEOi Panel
Meryl Comer at the AARPInternational, Global CEOi panel, "Changing the Global Care for Alzheimer’s and Dementia," on October 10, 2014....
Read MoreMeryl Comer at the AARPInternational, Global CEOi panel, "Changing the Global Care for Alzheimer’s and Dementia," on October 10, 2014....
Read MoreTwenty years ago Meryl Comer was a successful, Emmy Award–winning business journalist, stunningly beautiful (though she is still that), at the top of her game. And then her world fell apart. At that time, Comer’s husband, Harvey Gralnick, was then fifty-six and the Chief of...
Read MoreThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Tuesday announced the recipients of the agency's first wave of funding for the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, a $110 million U.S. effort to develop tools for studying how networks of neurons produce thoughts, feelings,...
Read More"The man I live with is not the man I fell in love with and married." So begins author Meryl Comer's story. In her book Slow Dancing With a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's, she chronicles the tough, daily realities and...
Read MoreThe man I live with is not the man I fell in love with and married. My physician husband, with his athletic torso and steely blue eyes, has slowly been robbed of something we all take for granted: the ability to navigate the mundane activities...
Read MoreMeryl Comer speaks at the National Institute of Health's first Brain Initiative Awards press briefing on September 30, 2014....
Read MoreToday is the last day of the 3rd annual World Alzheimer’s Month™. In honor of this month I highly recommend an unflinching new memoir about dementia caregiving: “Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer’s” by Meryl Comer (HarperOne,...
Read MoreWashington, D.C. – A pioneering online health study to assess the cognitive toll of Alzheimer’s and dementias caregiving using online brain performance tests was officially announced today at a ReACT/AARP event. Employers from more than 75 corporations, academic institutions, nonprofits and government attended the event,...
Read MoreSlow Dancing With a Stranger, Meryl Comer, Available on Amazon for $13-20 Slow Dancing CoverAs strange as it may seem, I don’t often read books about dementia. I do read a great deal about the brain, memory, and where we are in researching the functions of...
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