via Scripting News - Wired | Blog to Cope With Alzheimer's Fog

Seniors in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, with mild to moderate memory loss, are writing Web logs to help them make sense of their daily lives. And the activity, they say, is slowing the onset of their symptoms.

My Mum suffers from Alzheimer's. She's never used the Internet and I doubt that she's in a postion to take it up this late but I'll be checking some of the weblogs - for instance Alice Young's - to gain a better insight to how sufferers feel (and cope).