We invite you to join us in Alzheimer’s research on The Longest Day!
Stall Catchers is a citizen science game, developed by the Human Computation Institute, as part of the EyesOnALZ project. We are crowdsourcing promising Alzheimer’s research data from Cornell University. With your help, we could find a potential treatment in just a few years!
Anyone can play, from any device! (iphone or any smartphone, ipad or any tablet, PC or Mac) We have a community of over 10,000 “catchers”, from ages 6 to 88, many of which are caregivers, family members of those affected, and people living with Alzheimer’s themselves.
In the game, you look for “stalls” – clogged blood vessels where blood is no longer flowing. Stalls are a common hallmark of Alzheimer’s, and are linked to a severe reduction in blood flow in the brain. However, if stalls are removed in mice, they regain some of the cognitive function, and other Alzheimer’s symptoms seem to decrease.
Stall Catchers is easy enough to learn, and we help you out in the beginning with a one minute tutorial on how to play! There is no way you can mess up the research. We know how to extract research value from all your answers, right or wrong!
Playing Stall Catchers is a great and easy way to spend The Longest Day! Contribute to Alzheimer’s research and ask people to sponsor you for each hour you play! For each hour you play you are contributing the equivalency of xx hours of lab work. How cool is that?!
This year, we are joining the fight to #ENDAlz and invite you to join our team and catch stalls through the month of June and on The Longest Day, June 21st!
Click HERE to join the Stall Catchers team
James Wessler
Paul S. Stuka
Pain has an impact on behavior, function and quality of life for people living with dementia, but is one of the most mismanaged conditions. The challenges of understanding and treating acute and chronic pain for those with dementia are complex and often overlooked. Identifying and treating pain requires the ability to listen to what individuals are communicating through behaviors and body language. To treat pain for someone with dementia we must look beyond the words. This keynote offers the opportunity to explore strategies for identifying and managing pain including the use of standardized tools for assessment and monitoring along with the use of medications for individualizing comfort measures.
Melanie Bunn, GNP, MS, RN, is a Consulting Associate at the Duke University School of Nursing, Certified Trainer, Coach and Consultant for Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care, and has her own education consulting company, Bunn Consulting. She received her degree in Nursing from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Master’s degree in Family Health Nursing from Clemson University and a Post-Master’s Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Certificate from Duke University. She has provided primary care to older people in a variety of settings including retirement homes, long term care nursing, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and in the home as a gerontological nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist and staff nurse. In 2014, Ms. Bunn was awarded the Dr. Ewald W. Busse Award by the NC Division of Aging and Adult Services Department of Health and Human Services for her contributions to improving the care of older adults with dementia and their families.
Barry Greene
Thomas A. Croswell