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PET scans show many Alzheimer’s patients may not actually have the disease
Images showing the presence — or absence — of amyloid could change the treatment for dementia.
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Japan's doctors propose raising 'outdated' retirement age to 75
Doctors have come up with a novel idea to help Japan keep pace with its rapidly ageing population: raising the definition of senior citizen to those aged 75 years and older. A leading campaigner said the commonly accepted 65-year threshold is “terribly outdated” and needs to be lifted to take account of longer life expectancy and changing social attitudes to ageing.
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Brains With Alzheimer's Have More Bacteria Than Healthy Ones, Says New Study
New research shows bacteria that break through the brain's defences and infected neurons could play a role in the onset of Alzheimer's, giving experts a better understanding of the disease and ways we could treat it.
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‘I missed my nap for this’: 101-year-old sprinter breaks 100-meter dash record
Watch your back, Usain Bolt — there’s a new 100-meter dash superstar and she looks unstoppable. Meet 101-year-old Julia “Hurricane” Hawkins, who on Saturday became the oldest female athlete to ever compete in the USA Track and Field Outdoors Masters Championships. Not only that, but by running the 100 meters in 40.12 seconds, she shaved more than six seconds off the current certified world record for women aged 100 or older.
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Why I locked my father away
I thought I could care for my dad after his Alzheimer's diagnosis. Like many caregivers, I was quickly overwhelmed
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An Ancient Cure for Alzheimer’s?
Researchers are wondering whether a dose of parasites could help prevent dementia.
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Opinion | Carl Reiner: Justice Kennedy, Don’t Retire
Take it from me. Your 90s are the best years to work.
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Billionaires dream of immortality. The rest of us worry about healthcare - by Jill Abramson
Last week, as the Senate was still trying to deny healthcare to 22 million fellow Americans, a friend asked me whether I would choose to live forever if I could. We were discussing Silicon Valley billionaires and their investments in new biotechnologies that they hope will enable them to do what no human has ever done: cheat death. The technology includes some dubious treatments, such as being pumped with the blood of much younger people.
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Children who sleep less may age faster at a cellular level
A lack of sleep doesn’t just turn children into a grumpy handful, it may also accelerate their cellular ageing – a process that could have long-term health effects. Telomeres – the caps at the ends of our chromosomes – get shorter every time our cells divide, and when they get too short, it is thought that cells are no longer able to divide to repair and replenish the body – a sign of ageing. Some small studies in adults have suggested that sleep might be linked to telomere length.
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The pros and cons of therapeutic lying in dementia care.
Is it ever acceptable to tell ‘white lies’ to a loved one with dementia? Find out the arguments for and against the use of therapeutic lying. Being brought back to reality and told the truth, ie ‘your husband/wife/sister/died ten years ago’ could cause unnecessary anguish and pain. And if you need to do this a lot (because they often forget the same person is dead) imagine how distressing it could become.
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Older fathers have 'geekier sons'
They are more focused, intelligent and less bothered about fitting in, say scientists.
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Death pools can bring financial security for the long-lived
Modern-day enthusiasts hope to revive an ancient financial instrument
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Why You Can’t Help But Act Your Age
In 1979, psychologist Ellen Langer and her students carefully refurbished an old monastery in Peterborough, New Hampshire, to resemble a place that would have existed two decades earlier.
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The Dutchman
Steve Goodman
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When Is It Worth Worrying About Dementia?
Alzheimer's is the result of a combination of risks you can and cannot control. Here's how to ground yourself before the next wave of Alzheimer's hysteria.
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The good daughter
The truth is I don’t want to be a full-time carer, any more than I wanted to be a full-time mother. And I don’t want to live with my ma any more than she wants to live with me. By Janice Turner.
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Dementia-related brain changes observed before memory or thinking problems are noticeable
Scientists discover a potential predictor for early dementia that could inform the development of drug and therapeutic interventions to treat or slow down the disease.
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The Oldest Problem in American Prisons
No prison demographic is growing as fast as the elderly. Of the 6.7 million people under correctional supervision in 2015 (“more than were enslaved in antebellum America and more than resided in the Gulag Archipelago at the height of Stalin’s misrule,” Adam Gopnik recently pointed out in the New Yorker), over 10 percent were geriatric (55 years or older)—a 400 percent demographic increase since 1993, according to a 2013 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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Elderly couple married 67 years placed next to each other in hospital for the last time
A devoted couple who have been married for a staggering 67 years have had their hospital beds moved side by side so they can spend wife Beatrice's final days together. The great-grandmother, 87, has been battling bone cancer for six years and recently decided to decline any further treatment for the disease.
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Fashion wakes up to the older woman
Bloggers and ‘influencers’ are celebrating mature consumers
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