News tagged with dementia sufferers
New 'smart' homes for dementia sufferers
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Within five years innovative 'smart' sensing systems that will help the UK's 700,000 dementia sufferers live independently at home could be available commercially.
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All types of antipsychotic drugs increase the risk of stroke
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 29, 2008 |
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All drugs used to treat psychosis are linked to an increased risk of stroke, and dementia sufferers are at double the risk, according to a study published on bmj.com today.
'Sunshine vitamin' link to cognitive problems in older people
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan, have for the first time identified a relationship between Vitamin D, the "sunshine vitamin", and cognitive impairment ...
Obesity can increase dementia risk by up to 80 percent
May 07, 2008 |
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Being obese can increase the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease by as much as 80 per cent, according to a study in the May issue of Obesity Reviews.
Detecting often undiagnosed pain in people with dementia
Sep 02, 2009 |
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The elderly who suffer from dementia aren't able to say when something hurts or is sore. They may demonstrate their pain through behaviours like rocking or striking out, and we often dismiss these actions as symptoms of the ...
Report: 35 million-plus worldwide have dementia
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- More than 35 million people around the world are living with Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, says the most in-depth attempt yet to assess the brain-destroying illness - and it's an ominous forecast ...
Apathy common in dementia patients with brain changes
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Dementia patients with a certain type of changes in their brain's white matter are more likely to be apathetic than those who do not have these changes, reveals a patient study carried out by the Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska ...
Communication problems in dementia care cause physical strain
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Excessive physical strain in dementia care is not so much related to equipment or the resident's body weight as it is due to communication problems and misunderstandings. This is shown in a new study from the Sahlgrenska ...
HIV subtype linked to increased likelihood for dementia
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 28, 2009 |
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Patients infected with a particular subtype of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are more likely to develop dementia than patients with other subtypes, a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers shows. The finding, reported ...
Large epidemiologic study supports brain power of fish in older people
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Experts estimate that over 24 million people worldwide suffer from dementia, and many of these people live in low- and middle-income countries. Recently, there has been growing interest in whether dietary factors, particularly ...
Fat around the middle increases the risk of dementia
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Women who store fat on their waist in middle age are more than twice as likely to develop dementia when they get older, reveals a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy.
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