@wai-alzheimers
Supporting people with Alzheimer’s disease & other dementia, their care partners & health professionals. With offices in Madison and Milwaukee, we're home of the WRAP study, Amazing Grace Chorus, WAI Memory Clinic Network, New Friends & more. wai.wisc.edu
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Dr. Sterling Johnson is co-author of a Policy View paper in @thelancetneuro.bsky.social. The paper explores how blood-based detection tools are moving earlier in #Alzheimer’s treatments, including use in cognitively unimpaired people at risk of disease. Full story: go.wisc.edu/4q1xmv
Join us for the 12th Annual Breaking the Silence event on April 17, 2026! Register today at wai.wisc.edu/breakthesile...
We hope to see you there—together, WE CAN BREAK THE SILENCE on #dementia in high-risk populations and help families in #Wisconsin find the support they need.
12th annual breaking the silence community event
My colleagues at the @wai-alzheimers.bsky.social Regional Milwaukee Office are once again hosting the wonderful "Breaking the Silence" event, addressing #dementia in high-risk populations.
April 17, 2026, 8:30-noon, in-person in Milwaukee, WI
Learn more: wai.wisc.edu/breakthesile... #medsky
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No-cost Zoom webinar by our Wisconsin Dementia Resource Network
**Connecting People with Young‑Onset Dementia with Essential Resources**
Social workers and health providers: Find tools for your patients with YOD in this free, lunch-hour webinar. March 19, 2026
🔗 Register: go.wisc.edu/jb1d4n
👇A great opportunity for @uwmadison.bsky.social researchers!
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Got summer plans? Stop by a WAI Summer Externship informational session on Tuesday, Feb. 3 at the UW School of Nursing room 1231. Learn about our paid, flexible student education program - OPEN NOW to M1s and DNP students at @uwmadison.bsky.social
👉https://wai.wisc.edu/student-externship/
Applications are OPEN! Our 2026 WAI Summer Externship is looking for 1st-year med students at UW SMPH. This is a paid, flexible education opportunity.
✅ Deadline: March 24
👉 Apply now & help spread the word!
wai.wisc.edu/student-exte...
#MedStudentOpportunity #UWSMPH
Screen capture from presentation to Wisconsin Dementia Resource Network, "Serving the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community."
Great new resource from @wai-alzheimers.bsky.social on "Successful Approaches to Serving the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community," including risk of #dementia.
Helpful information for older adults, family members & anyone involved in the care of older adults.
#medsky
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🧀 A Swedish study suggests high-fat cheese & cream may be linked to lower dementia risk. WAI Director Dr. Cynthia Carlsson says: “Put benefits in context—don’t rush to change your diet.”
A little holiday indulgence? Maybe okay! Read more: go.wisc.edu/7z8zsp
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🎉We're excited & grateful to welcome Jessica Caldwell, PhD, to our team. Dr. Caldwell joins as multiple principal investigator of the WRAP study, bringing profound experience in dementia prevention and reducing risk of #Alzheimers in women. go.wisc.edu/196rl3
‼️Hey #ASHA2025‼️Don't miss @kmueller123.bsky.social and Madeline Hale’s big centennial presentation TODAY, 11/20 @ 1pm, Session 1060! You won't want to miss hearing about biomarker-defined, preclinical #alzheimersdisease and how #SLP 's and #audiologist's can play a role in early intervention!
More exciting research utilizing the foundational work from our WRAP study. Read how brain cells microglia and astrocytes may interact with amyloid & tau to cause #Alzheimer's progression. www.alzforum.org/news/researc...
A graphic promoting the latest episode of "Dementia Matters". On the right are headshots of guest Dr. Jonathan Graff-Radford. On the left is text reading "New Podcast Episode" alongside the podcast logo. Underneath the logo is the episode title, "Clarifying the Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trials Landscape."
With so many clinical trials in progress across the country, it can be difficult for interested research participants to know where to start. Dr. Jonathan Graff-Radford joins #DementiaMatters to discuss the ins and outs of Alzheimer's disease clinical trials. Listen 🎧 go.wisc.edu/4twd5d
Healthy aging starts early, and we're glad to be a part of a upcoming workshop supporting Infant and Maternal Health. Help us spread the word about this no cost educational event for new moms and dads, expecting parents, and care partners. Sept. 25 - register now at wai.wisc.edu/event/improv...
Our WAI Milwaukee team is busy with a big fall season of community events! Starting Thursday, join a Coffee and a Chat 3-part series of talks about online safety. All are welcome. Follow our event page at wai.wisc.edu/events/categ...
Check out this paper by Studer and Cody, "Lifestyle, genetic risk, plasma pTau217, and incident cognitive impairment in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP)."
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#Alzheimers #ADRD #geronsky #ADRDsky
U IN? Saturday, Sept. 6! Join us for no-cost health screenings including memory screenings, blood pressure checks, breast cancer checks, and more. Find healthy aging local resources at our 5th Community Health Fair at Calvary Baptist Church in Milwaukee. See you then! #healthfair #Milwaukee
Don't miss this! Dr. Quiroz (@ytquiroz.bsky.social) will share her fascinating 20+ years of work studying an extended family with a rare early-onset Alzheimer's gene. Join our WAI 23rd Annual Update on Sept. 19 to learn more about pre-clinical AD and progression. 1 MONTH AWAY! 👉 go.wisc.edu/l1a65s
Researchers from the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute made a strong showing at #AAIC2025, sharing insights into clinical care, research for everyone, and how the WRAP study is powering findings worldwide. Their dedication is shaping the future of Alz research. #WAI #UWAlz #AlzheimersResearch
🌊🌊 This will be a great event! So excited to join @mkewatercommons.bsky.social ky.social for their We are Water event on Sunday, Aug. 24. Sing along with The Amazing Grace chorus and celebrate our connections to water & nature at this McKinley beach festival.
Check out Dr. Mueller's publication with the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention (WRAP) on using telephone-based cognitive assessments to reduce barriers for research participants and improve continuity in longitudinal studies! alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Event promo for “What Are We Going to Do With Grandma Tina” on dementia care, featuring Dr. Helen C. Kales. Hosted by Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute, Sept 19, 2025, Madison, WI. CEUs/CMEs offered
We're honored to welcome Helen Kales, MD (@ucdavis.bsky.social) to our Annual Update in Alzheimer’s Disease! Creator of the DICE method, Dr. Kales will present a keynote on managing behavioral symptoms of dementia with evidence-based care.
👉 icep.wisc.edu/alzheimers-2025#
Did you register for our WAI Annual Update in #Alzheimer's yet? Hear the latest in Blood biomarkers & Dementia Risk Across Population Subgroups from Dr. Doris Molina-Henry (@dorismolinahen.bsky.social)
📅 Sept. 19, 2025
🧠 CMEs avail!
👉 icep.wisc.edu/alzheimers-2025#
Promotional graphic for the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute Annual Update event. The background features colorful outdoor chairs and flowers. A red circle at the bottom contains white text: 'WAI Annual Update Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias, Sept. 19, 2025, Memorial Union - Great Hall, Madison, WI.'
There's just 2 months until the WAI Annual Update! JOIN US Sept. 19 for professional continuing education about #Alzheimers & blood biomarkers, managing behavioral symptoms of dementia, autosomal dominant AD &* MUCH more! Full CME details at icep.wisc.edu/alzheimers-2025#
The @acgme.bsky.social has proposed revisions to its Common Program Requirements for all residencies and fellowships.
They are accepting public comments through July 30, 2025.
I encourage you to review and comment:
www.acgme.org/programs-and...
1- Publication alert! New from our public health team at @wai-alzheimers.bsky.social:
We describe methods used to design our primary care #dementia intervention, DETAILD, "Dementia Educational Techniques: Academic detailing and DICE."
implementationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Banner for the Annual Update in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia's event on September 19, 2025. Registration is OPEN.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN for our 23rd Alzheimers and Related Dementia's Update.
Date: September 19, 202
Time: 8:00AM - 4:30PM
Where: Memorial Union (Madison, WI)
Register Here: wai.wisc.edu/adrdupdate/
We are so excited to welcome Dr. Davide Bruno to UW Madison as an Honorary Fellow! His contributions to @wai-alzheimers.bsky.social WRAP and @wisconsinadrc.bsky.social have been numerous and invaluable! Thank you @davidebrunophd.bsky.social !
📣📣New pub alert! Our public health team is doing important work to help primary care providers recognize #Alzheimer's and related dementias.
Trajectories and Pointwise Estimates of Social Network Characteristics and Loneliness by Randomly Assigned Treatment Among the Total Cohort of 977 Participants: Y-axis values are social network characteristics and loneliness scores that were developed using the linear mixed-effect model. Parameter estimates and 95% CIs (indicated by whiskers) were calculated from a linear mixed-effects model that adjusted for baseline age, sex, education, field site, better-ear pure-tone average, speech-in-noise understanding, hearing handicap inventory for the elderly score, marital status, living alone, global cognition, Center for Epidemiologic Studies depression scale, antidepressant use, and whether the participant was part of a recruited spousal pair. Multiple imputation by chained equations was used to impute missing covariates.
An intervention to promote hearing among older adults led to slightly ⬇️social isolation & loneliness.
Participants (N=977 w/ untreated hearing loss) were randomized to 4 1-hr sessions w/ an audiologist re: hearing aid use vs control.
#medsky @jamainternalmed.com
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