
Your Social Frailty Index: A New Way to Delay Dementia
Strengthening social connections may offer a surprising boost to long-term brain health.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

When Memory Loss Becomes Invisible to Those Who Need Help Most

Old love is about Silver in the hair and Gold in the heart.

New research hints at a simple, widely available vaccine that may help protect brain health.

It is one of the most beautiful Compensations of this life thatNo man can sincerely try to help anotherWithout helping himself.

What are the early symptoms of Alzheimer’s? When to get a professional evaluation.

SHORT-TERM MEMORY lapses are obvious signs of Alzheimer’s, but other tell-tale signals begin to show much earlier. Learn how to look for semantic impairments, such as simple questions about size.

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?
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