#Dementia

From Ars Technica: Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how

From Nypost RSS Feed: Dear Abby: I have a nosy neighbor who doesn’t respect personal boundaries

A huge long-term study found that drinking two to three cups of coffee a day was linked to a much lower risk of dementia, especially before age 75.…

Over 6 million Americans have dementia, a progressive brain disorder that affects memory, language, problem solving and judgment.

From The Guardian: Inquest into death of Clare Nowland after Tasering by NSW police aims to answer ‘outstanding questions’

A sweeping new evidence review found that today's top Alzheimer's drugs "probably result in little to no difference" in reducing dementia severity or anything else that matters to patients. Journalists…

From Nypost RSS Feed: The common foods that are messing with your ability to focus — even if the rest of your diet is healthy

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My grandpa's dementia made conversations unpredictable, but I learned to embrace his reality — and it brought us closer.

My father with dementia needed full-time care in an assisted living facility. The cost and scarcity of elder care is difficult for families like mine.

From Kiplinger RSS Feed: My Beloved Husband Has Early-Stage Dementia. He Is 'Doing Well,' but How Do I Protect Our $1.6 Million Savings Right Now?

A 75-year-old Spirit Airlines passenger with dementia was killed after landing in Houston and wandering onto a busy highway two years ago, according to a lawsuit accusing the shuttered airline of n…

A team of researchers from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria analyzed sleep-centric medical studies published over the last quarter century to better understand how a lack of sleep affects the br…

MIT neuroscientists have uncovered a surprising secret hidden in the adult brain: millions of “silent synapses,” dormant connections that lie in wait until new learning calls them into action.…

From Nypost RSS Feed: Former ‘bad for you’ food can actually lower your Alzheimer’s risk by up to 27%

This year's winner in NPR's College Podcast Challenge is a letter to a grandparent that grapples with health issues including dementia. It's the story of a family learning to talk about hard things.

For people experiencing multiple falls after this age, their future risk could increase up to 74 per cent, say scientists

From Independent RSS Feed: I’m a doctor. This is how your lifestyle could be increasing your risk of Alzheimer’s

Drugs designed to clear amyloid beta from the brain—once seen as a promising path to slowing Alzheimer’s—may not actually help patients in any meaningful way, according to a major review of over 20,000 participants.…

I’ve always tried to go in my own direction and extract fun from situations that might otherwise incite anxiety. I learned this from my mother, a painfully shy woman who’d been dubbed “the bashful …