Deans' stroke musings: 15 Million Americans Now Caring for Loved One With Alzheimer’s

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

15 Million Americans Now Caring for Loved One With Alzheimer’s

I know this isn't directly related to stroke but I can correlate anything to stroke.
http://www.doctorslounge.com/index.php/news/hd/18571
At least the chief medical officer of the Alzheimer's Association can put out decent press releases keeping that disease in front of the American people.
If we compare the 5.4 million people in the United States have Alzheimer's disease, and their 14.9 million caregivers provided a total of 17 billion hours of unpaid care, valued at more than $200 billion, according to the report. With 6 million stroke survivors the numbers could be close to the same. Who is speaking up for the stroke survivors? I don't see either the ASA or NSA stepping up to the plate, at least as far as survivors are concerned. Tell me who is or the excuses that someone isn't.