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What to Say & Do When Spending Time with a Person with Dementia Relatives that visit once or twice a year can expect changes in the elderly person with Alzheimer's disease. Relatives visiting during the holidays or gathering...
Cancer and dementia research faces funding cuts to pay for the Government plan to create free social care for elderly and disabled people, Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said. Health Secretary Andy Burnham said he had to be...
From correspondents in London, England, 02:02 PM IST Middle-aged women who store fat on their waist are more than twice as likely to develop dementia when they get older, reveals a new study. The most common symptoms of...
Biofield therapies, which claim to use subtle energy to stimulate the body's healing process, are promising complementary interventions for reducing the intensity of pain in a number of conditions, reducing anxiety for...
Penelope Webber was in charge of a ward for dementia patients A nurse who abused two 87-year-old men with dementia at a Cardiff hospital has been given a suspended prison sentence. Penelope Rees, 52, whose surname used to be...
Scientists say they have created the world's cleverest rat, called Hobbie-J, by modifying a single gene in a technique they believe could also be used to boost human brainpower. The rat, when it was an embryo, was injected with...
It can take days for us to get the information we need to provide care for confused patients Andrea Gillies suggests that hospital care for people with dementia is deficient because staff don't know, or don't care, about...
Related story with video: Research pursues earlier Alzheimer's diagnosis By Andy Evangelista Bill and Susan Long sometimes bicker playfully when he can't recall simple things, like where he left his keys just a minute ago....
A recent German study published in the journal Environmental Research revealed a definitive link between prolonged inhalation of automobile fumes and inflammation of the brain. An analysis of a group of women found that those...
Aim: In the present study our goal was to explore the impact of driving cessation on daily transportation utility in older people with cognitive decline. Methods: A total of 101 older persons participated in our survey of...
