Women Having Memory Problems? 10 Years From Now, You May Have Alzheimer's
Uh oh. Just when I thought I was getting out of the woods as a potential Alzheimer's patient, now a new study is saying that older women (ok, so I'm not over 70 or anywhere near it) with memory complaints may well be on their way to this dreaded disease. According to newswise.com, new research suggests that older women who complain of memory problems may be at higher risk for experiencing diagnosed memory and thinking impairment decades later. I drew a complete blank when trying to come up with my allergist's name for another doctor. Usually the name will come to me sometime over the next hours or days. But this one didn't. Then I panicked when my son and I were listening to music and I wanted to tell him about a singer who sounded just like the person singing. And I couldn't for the life of me remember her name. (I knew the first name, "Phoebe." But the rest totally eluded me. I came up with "Swann" but I knew that wasn't ri...