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Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia. Here’s why knowing about the diversity of dementia matters.
Decision-making abilities are critical to a president’s performance.
A CNN documentary follows two people with Alzheimer’s who took part in a study to determine if lifestyle changes can reverse symptoms.
In 2022 the top five conditions involved in deaths in Australia were coronary heart disease, dementia, high blood pressure, cerebrovascular disease (such as a stroke) and diabetes.
A ‘complex’ job and an active social life can protect you from dementia – if you don’t less stress undo it all.
We now have the technology and knowledge to carry out real-time dream experiments with sleeping participants.
The NT government has invited views on access to voluntary assisted dying. But whether it should include access for those with dementia is not so clear cut.
Being arrested, getting a divorce, losing your job – all of these things are associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s.
Being aware of terminal lucidity can help loved ones understand it is part of the dying process.
The science linking obesity to dementia is complicated - here’s why
Most caregiving work is done by women. However, many contend with trying to balance their caregiving responsibilities with their own well-being and aspirations.
Children with childhood dementia progressively lose all previously acquired skills and abilities, such as talking, walking, learning, remembering and reasoning.
A loss of visual sensitivity could be an early predictor of dementia.
The traditional Japanese diet contains plenty of rice, fish, pickles, green tea, soybeans, miso and shiitake mushrooms.
When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
Lives that matter: new novels by Trish Bolton and Graeme Nash defy the stereotypes of older women in fiction.
Current methods of screening for dementia have a range of limitations. Using virtual reality for cognitive screening is still a new area, but it’s showing promise.
Medicare covers an annual well-check visit that could potentially identify cognitive issues, but only about half of beneficiaries take advantage of them.
Middle age could be a period when we can detect early risk factors of future cognitive decline.
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