CALTCM Members and Friends,  As we greet 2019 with fresh ideas and educational programs, offering you the best one can offer in professional education and training for California’s post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) arena, I am proud to share with you our accomplishments in 2018.

Recently, both poor sleep and inflamed gums have been implicated in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease. But before we discuss that, I’d like to remind you of the free resource “Alzforum” – www.alzforum.org – where the latest papers and meeting presentations are presented along with active discussion by many of the leading researchers in the field. I do not know of any other field where such a central repository has been maintained over a long period of time. It’s common for colleagues, patients and even family members to ask me about “the latest breakthrough” that they hear about on the news or read about in the lay press. I find Alzforum the best place for me to get a balanced view of the research that triggered the news report.