According to the Fall 2007 issue of the Healthcare Journal of Northern California, UC Davis will receive more than $21 million from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to find treatments that may reverse the common cause of dementia in Alzheimer patients. The five-year grant is the largest funding award in history to focus on the fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome or FXTAS. With the grant, UC Davis is hoping to find an effective treatment to reduce or eliminate the debilitating tremors, balance problems, and dementia associated with fragile X. As many of us get older, getting a handle on the other problems with aging helps people live better quality lives. Seniors face a wide range of diseases and while some are not all life threatening, they affect the quality of life, emotionally and physically.
This grant will allow UC Davis to form the NeuroTheraputics Research Institute. This Institute is one of nine interdisciplinary research consortia. The goal is to integrate different disciplines to address health challenges that have been resistant to traditional research approaches. In addition to finding treatments that specifically target FXTAS, institute researches will improve understanding of all age-related neurodegenerative processes. With the big bulge of baby-boomers approaching, they seek to get ahead of these diseases, which lead to a loss of quality of life. The healthier we are as seniors, the less costs burden our health care system, the better we enjoy our golden years. When we are healthier, we are less a burden to our kids, which we all want to avoid. Long term care insurance can help with this. This is different than health care insurance though. To read more about the grant go to UC Davis. To learn more about Alzheimer's such as symptoms and prognosis, go to the Alzheimer Association's website. If you are looking for special needs housing, want more information on long term care insurance or help with a senior go to http://www.cacoastalhome.com/Seniors_-_Financial_Considerations/page_1788974.html or call Gregg Camp @831-688-1830
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