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Huge Study Confirms Viagra Cuts Alzheimer's Risk by Over 50%
An FDA-approved pharmaceutical used to treat erectile dysfunction could soon be recommended as a therapy for decreasing the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
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This Online Tool Will Help You Support Your Relative With Dementia Wherever They Are
MyPAL is a cognitive assessment & personalised care plan tool for the person with dementia and their family. Based on an internationally recognised assessment & care planning system called PAL (Pool Activity Level), MyPAL is already an industry standard in the health, education and scientific sectors and is recommended in the National Clinical Practice Guideline for Dementia (NICE, 2006)
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Exercise and Supplements Can't Stop Cognitive Decline, Sadly
Can dementia be prevented? Will exercise or nutritional supplements improve cognitive decline? Prepare to be disappointed.
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When Prisons Need to Be More Like Nursing Homes
Finding new ways to treat the growing pool of older, ailing inmates. By Maura Ewing.
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A Criminal Mind
Why did a respected psychiatrist and beloved grandfather become a major drug dealer? By Erika Hayasaki.
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The Science of Lewy Body Dementia
This week in SciShow News we dissect what a Lewy Body is and what they are capable of doing.
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Invisible Patients
Dementia takes a toll on caregivers, too. By Lauren R. Weinstein.
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Anxiety raises risk for dementia
People who experienced high anxiety any time in their lives had a 48 percent higher risk of developing dementia compared to those who had not, according to a new study led by USC researchers. The findings were based on an examination of 28 years of data from the Swedish Adoption Twin Study of Aging...
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Marijuana helps Alzheimer’s patients, study finds
Adding marijuana to the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease “is safe and a promising treatment option”, Israeli researchers conclude, in the latest study on the burgeoning practice. Alzheimer’s Disease is a devastating and fatal degenerative neurological disease affecting more than five million Americans today. One in three seniors will die with Alzheimer’s or another dementia, and Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the nation...
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I Set Out to Chronicle My Dementia Five Years Ago. Here Is Where I Am Now.
In 2010, Gerda Saunders learned she had cerebral microvascular disease, a precursor to dementia. A writer and academic, she began to keep a journal.
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Eating curry may help fight off dementia, new study suggests
Eating curry at least once a week may help to stave off dementia, new research suggests. For perhaps too many Britons, a trip to the curry house is an occasion not associated with improved memory and verbal skills. But a new trial by Australian scientists indicates that a weekly blast of spicy food will keep people sharper for longer in old age.
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Living With the Parents I’m Losing to Alzheimer’s
My parents called me one day in March and started singing “Happy Birthday.” It was unsettling. My birthday is in May.
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Alzheimer's Cases Rise, But Hope Remains
More than 5 million Americans currently have Alzheimer's disease, and the number is only going to increase — in part, due to aging baby boomers. But researchers say increased awareness and early detection is helping patients live with the disease.
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The progression of dementia - Alzheimer's Society
Information about how dementia progresses.
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Mom's Caregiver
Her beauty is not in her hair or her clothes or her face or her figure or her style....
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The Decline of Tube Feeding for Dementia Patients
The proportion of nursing home residents with advanced dementia who receive a feeding tube has dropped more than 50 percent, a new national study has found.
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Alzheimer's breakthrough: Drug that halts mental decline hailed as 'best news for dementia in 25 years'
The first drug that can prevent Alzheimer’s disease is finally on the horizon after scientists proved they can clear the sticky plaques from the brain which cause dementia and halt mental decline. The breakthrough was hailed as the "best news" in dementia research for 25 years and a potential "game changer" for people with Alzheimer’s.
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Is it dementia? Maybe — Or maybe not.
Other conditions come with similar symptoms, experts say.
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Monty Python's Terry Jones has been diagnosed with dementia
The comedy genius behind Monty Python, Terry Jones, has been diagnosed with dementia. The news came as Bafta Cymru announced he had been given a special award for outstanding contribution to film and television. A representative for the writer and director said: "Terry has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a variant of frontotemporal dementia.
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Does gum disease have a link to cancer, dementia, stroke?
Researchers are looking at whether mouth bacteria is connected to many other diseases.
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