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A woman has claimed her husband, who had dementia, was given 106 different carers in a single year.
BBC News
The announcement today is accompanied by National Institutes of Health (NIH) $50M in additional funding for 2012 to be directed at Alzheimer's disease; more specifically, at high quality and up to date training for clinicians and a new public information campaign.
May 17: Medical News Today
With an ageing population, a wave of dementia is approaching. Caring for those afflicted isn't easy, writes Louis Theroux.
April 25: BBC News
The threat of age-related memory loss and dementia holds a special terror for most people. Who are we, if we don't have our mental facilities?
April 24: WHYY Grey Matters
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I think of myself as being educated in recognizing the signs of dementia. After all, I have been around people diagnosed with dementia for most of my life. I have probably met, assessed or observed more than 10,000 dementia residents in the last three decades.
April 24: My San Antonio
Theo Visser with his wife, Corrie, a dementia patient who cannot speak. She lives in the Hogewey complex in the Netherlands, where residents can walk in the courtyard, go shopping and do other things that are a normal part of life.
April 24: The New York Times
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, though not common, does exist in elderly patients and has different characteristics than the presenile-onset disease, researchers reported.
April 23: Medical news
"Our ability to take in new information and to remember it over time does decline a little bit as we get older, and we call that age-associated memory impairment," said Brad Folley, a clinical neuropsychologist with the Norton Neuroscience Institute in Louisville, Ky.
April 13: USA today
To a generation of TV and film fans, Alex Karras will forever be the loving adoptive dad on the 1980s sitcom “Webster” or the big guy who punched a horse in 1974’s “Blazing Saddles.”
April 12: Detroit free press
Griffith University researchers are urging people who care for dementia patients to contact them.
April 12: ABC News
If you would like to participate, Enzo's Place has found the original enrolement information.
There could soon be a new way of detecting Alzheimer’s disease in patients. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved a radioactive dye, called Amyvid developed by Eli Lilly and Co. which could be used in an imaging test.
April 11: Bay News 9
A new technique for analyzing brain images offers the possibility of using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to predict the rate of progression and physical path of many degenerative brain diseases, report scientists at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) and the Univ. of California, San Francisco.
April 11: LabNews
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April 11: Dementia numbers to hit 115M worldwide by 2050 NBC-2
April 10: 'Dementia champions' start work across Scotland BBC News
April 09: Researchers Fight Dementia at Brain Science Frontier
April 09: Alzheimer's Diagnosis Possible With Brain Protein Test
April 09: Widow with dementia gave $600,000 to Kabbalah Centre charity
Mar 28: Curcumin found to prevent brain degenerative diseases
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Mar 13: Dementia sufferer conned out of £56,000 life-savings… by his OWN son-in-law
Mar 13: Petaluma dealer to take back $62,000 car sold to man with dementia
Mar 08: Alzheimer's patients 'should stay on drugs for longer'
Mar 03: Unpaid Caregivers Provided An Estimated $202 Billion In Dementia Care
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