Traumatic Brain Injury Increases Risk of Alzheimer's by 400-Percent

"Researchers already know that people who experience traumatic brain injury are at 400-percent increased risk for developing Alzheimer’s. Both disorders involve build-up of beta amyloid, a toxic brain protein."

The researchers "noted that buildup of beta amyloid occurs in a second wave of damage to brain cells following the first loss of nerve cells to traumatic injury. This second stage of injury can go on for months, if not years, resulting in large gaps in brain tissue."

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Lee Bowman
Published: Sunday, July 26, 2009
Medical Journal

Federal Program Wants Foster Families for Disabled Veterans

This is definitely a program which qualified disabled veterans should be aware of and check out!

A "federal program that is new to Pennsylvania and will attempt to provide those veterans with family foster homes, said Teresa Stump-Klinger, medical foster home coordinator at the Lebanon VA Medical Center.

So far, about two-dozen veterans - including several from Berks County - who are served by the medical center have requested to be considered for the program."

"What's the cost? Veterans might pay a family or caregiver $2,000 to $3,000 a month - negotiable with the caregiver - to live with them. The amount that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will reimburse the veterans is determined case by case."

Full Articl: Uncle Sam seeks foster families to take in disabled veterans
By Jason Brudereck
Reading Eagle