The healthcare reform law, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, created a new Medicare benefit to provide an Annual Wellness Visit for every Medicare beneficiary.

The Alzheimer’s Association-Greater Michigan Chapter is partnering with the Area Agencies on Aging to offer an educational training program for families who are caring for a loved one with a dementia related illness, such as Alzheimer’s disease, a closed head injury, or dementia due to stroke. 

The total estimated worldwide costs of dementia are $604 billion in 2010, according to the newly released World Alzheimer Report 2010: The Global Economic Impact of Dementia from Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), a London-based, nonprofit, international federation of 73 national Alzheimer organizations, including the Alzheimer’s Association.

Couples Life Story Project is seeking participants.

A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease can be a difficult, confusing time for families.