HEALTH RESEARCH: Can muscle strength gains really fight MCI? (MCI is Mild Cognitive Impairment, sometimes nicknamed “pre-Alzheimer’s”.) Check out this health tip from Australia’s “SMART
APATHY strikes 90% of people with dementia, sooner or later. Faster decline and care problems result. Apathy is the most common neuropsychiatric symptom of dementia,
PROTECTING YOUR MEMORY & COGNITION: Maintaining positive, warm and trusting friendships might be the key to a slower decline in memory and cognitive functioning, according
DRUGS: 100 care facilities saw a significant drop in antipsychotics for dementia when staff were trained to focus on “treating the residents as human beings
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found certain types of physical activity are better than others in preventing dementia and disease. Find out more.
SWEET VIDEO: Self-isolating with someone who has Alzheimer’s can be hard. See the wonderful thing Tommy is doing with his Nan.
A new “Dementia Cruise” is setting sail. Both a conference and a vacation, people include those with early or mid-stage dementia, family, friends, professionals and
150 Alzheimer’s clinical trials are looking for volunteers in the USA. They are trying out the newest drugs and therapies on 70,000 people with various
VIDEO Music legend Glen Campbell hasn’t let his battle with Alzheimer’s disease keep him from his music. His wife, Kim, tells USA TODAY about his
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ANIMATED MUSIC VIDEO: Watch this uplifting-yet-real, brilliantly-animated music video about a child’s heroic relationship with his parent with dementia.
Does dementia always begin with memory loss? Three people living with dementia reveal common misconceptions about their diagnoses.
Sleep aid lemborexant (better known by its brand name Dayvigo) showed 40% more hippocampal brain volume than other drugs.
Three important dementia studies focus on HS-AGING, a type of dementia almost as common as Alzheimer’s in the 85+ group. Yet few people have heard of it. Why? What makes it different?
An intriguing study of 120 grandmothers might surprise you. Doctors know socially engaged people have better cognition and less dementia. But can a person get too much of a good thing? What’s the right balance?
Enjoy this great duet between a musician with dementia and his son. A triumph of spirit over Alzheimer’s! Sing-a-long if you like!
It looks like a sneeze cannot give anyone Alzheimer’s. While Alzheimer’s abnormal disease proteins do spread from cell-to-cell, they are not “infectious”. Check out the facts.
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