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Your Social Frailty Index: A New Way to Delay Dementia

December 5, 2025 No Comments

Strengthening social connections may offer a surprising boost to long-term brain health.

10 Ways a Nursing Home Pub Is Helping Dementia Patients Reconnect

November 25, 2025 No Comments

A cozy pub inside a nursing home is doing something remarkable — helping residents with dementia reconnect, open up, and feel like themselves again. Here are 10 ways this surprising space is changing daily life.

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Social for 1 Day Improves Cognition for 3

April 22, 2025 No Comments

Researchers find that adults ages 70 to 90 who enjoy a pleasant social life, also have a better cognitive life.

6 Activities to Delay Dementia by 5 Years

February 2, 2025 No Comments

Learn the latest research at Rush University on dementia-preventing activities that keep your brain refreshingly healthy.

Feeling Alone, Not Being Alone, Risks Dementia

September 6, 2024 5 Comments

VIDEO + ARTICLE: After studying 2,000 people, learn why researchers were surprised to find that allowing ourselves to ‘feel lonely’, and NOT ‘being alone’, was associated with getting dementia. See how feeling connected keeps your brain cells connected, too.

What Dementia-Friendly Means

February 29, 2024 No Comments

Very small things that people do can make a very big difference to people with dementia. Hear people with early dementia share their experiences, stigmas and what you can do to help create a dementia-friendly world.

Good News on the ‘Elderly’ Brain

July 16, 2023 No Comments

Did you know? Intellectual abilities are increased in the brain by an average 300% in most people ages 60-80.

Washing Away Alzheimer’s via the Glymphatic System

January 26, 2026

The “glymphatic system” removes brain waste. It may be a powerful new target to treat Alzheimer’s. Learn why scientists believe Alzheimer’s may arise when the system is not doing its cleaning properly.

This is an image, magnified a million times, of amyloid fibril, the type of protein structures that are formed in Alzheimer's. (Credit: Dr. Tuomas Knowles)

7 Steps to Alzheimer’s

January 25, 2026

Plaques are the best-known Alzheimer’s culprit. Cambridge scientists have figured out the 7 steps to forming these plaques. Find out how targeting the formation of these “oligomers” may hold the key to a cure.