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KELLY MCCARTHY, right, corporate director of memory care at LCB Senior Living in Norwood, Mass., served as the keynote address speaker at the Alzheimer's Association Caregiver's Journey conference two years ago. She is pictured with Jerome Morgan, who has Alzheimer's disease and attended the conference. / COURTESY ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION

Alzheimers’ Association to host Caregiver’s Journey conference

Health Services 04/02/2018

WARWICK – About 23,000 Rhode Islanders are living with Alzheimer’s disease, cared for by roughly 53,000 unpaid caregivers, whose quality of life will be...

Paula Grammas, the inaugural executive director of URI’s four-and-a-half-year-old Ryan Institute, brings a distinguished career as a research scientist to Rhode Island. She has been principal investigator or co-investigator on more than $24 million in research grants. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Answers are found often on new, unexpected paths

Education 03/23/2018

Paula Grammas | George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience, University of Rhode Island executive director My parents emigrated from Greece in the 1950s. What...

Rhode Island Hospital joins national Alzheimer’s disease imaging study

Health Services 12/15/2017

PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island Hospital has joined phase four of the $40 million Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, an international clinical trial studying the rate...

A DIAGRAM showing the difference between a healthy brain and one with advanced Alzheimer's disease. / COURTESY NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

Butler Hospital, Rhode Island Mood & Memory Research Institute join Alzheimer’s...

Health Services 12/14/2017

PROVIDENCE — Butler Hospital’s Memory and Aging Program and the Rhode Island Mood & Memory Research Institute are participating in Novartis Pharmaceuticals’ international Alzheimer’s disease prevention...

ON A MISSION: Dr. Brian R. Ott, director, Alzheimer’s Disease & Memory Disorder Center at Rhode Island Hospital, and Lori A. Daiello, research scientist and clinical research administrator, are on a mission to reduce the prevalence of Alzheimer’s.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I.-based researchers on a mission to delay onset of Alzheimer’s

Health Services 05/19/2017

With an estimated 5.5 million Americans now living with Alzheimer’s disease, Dr. Brian R. Ott, director of Rhode Island Hospital’s memory-disorder center, and Lori...