Archive for the ‘Alzheimer's / Dementia’ Category
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Alzheimer's disease is now the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics. The CDC estimates that 72,914 Americans died of Alzheimer's disease in 2007. With an unprecedented historic population shift of 78 ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
This study shows increasing light intensity in care homes can improve the quality of life for people with dementia and those who care for them. We need more light to see properly as we get older and this is often not taken into account when equipping care homes that cater ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
The carers strategy is a good start in tackling the large set of problems faced by carers. Greater investment in respite is very good news. It could give thousands of carers the invaluable opportunity to recharge their batteries and access crucial support. However, it's important that this new money is ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) has proposed a bill that aims to increase funding and resources for Hispanics with Alzheimer's disease, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reports. According to the Alzheimer's Association, the number of Hispanics with the disease is expected to increase from 200,000 to 1.3 million by 2050. Sanchez said ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) invites scientists from the biotechnology industry and academia to apply for a research grant through the Novel Approaches to Drug Discovery for Alzheimer's Disease award program. The goal of the program is to accelerate the discovery, development and clinical evaluation of effective therapies ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, GE Healthcare, a division of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and a Consortium of leading research institutions across Europe today announced the PredictAD project, a research collaboration aimed at developing new diagnostic procedures for patients with Alzheimer's disease. Today there is ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
This report confirms the shocking truth that social care charges are hitting vulnerable older people harder than ever. There are 700,000 people living with dementia in the UK and this will rise to over a million people in less than 20 years. What sort of society do we live in ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Up to two-thirds of people in England with dementia are never diagnosed as they do not recognise the symptoms. Elderly people suffering from memory loss need to act more quickly in seeking medical advice, says The Alzheimer's Society. It is estimated by 2025 more than 1m people in the country ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Commenting on the Commission for Social Care Inspection's report See me, not just the dementia King's Fund Chief Executive Niall Dickson said: 'Over the next 20 years we are going to witness a dramatic increase in the number of people suffering from dementia. Unless there is a major breakthrough in ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
The nation's leading organization of assisted living providers today urged the Senate Special Committee on Aging to look to assisted living providers for the model of care for victims of Alzheimer's disease.Richard Grimes, the CEO and president of the Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA), submitted testimony to the committee ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Neil Hunt, chief executive, Alzheimer's Society says, 'The standard of dementia care highlighted in this report is a national disgrace. 'Researchers have used a new way of looking at the real experiences or people living in care homes. It shows that half of the homes inspected needed to improve care ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
The nation's leading organization of assisted living providers today urged the Senate Special Committee on Aging to look to assisted living providers for the model of care for victims of Alzheimer's disease.Richard Grimes, the CEO and president of the Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA), submitted testimony to the committee ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Neil Hunt, chief executive, Alzheimer's Society says, 'The standard of dementia care highlighted in this report is a national disgrace. 'Researchers have used a new way of looking at the real experiences or people living in care homes. It shows that half of the homes inspected needed to improve care ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Interrupting a signaling pathway in certain immune system cells in laboratory mice had the opposite effect researchers expected but opened the possibility of a new approach to treating Alzheimer's disease, according to an article in the journal Nature Medicine.The intervention targets the sticky plaque buildup that occurs in the ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Health Minister Ivan Lewis helped launch Alzheimer's Society's new public information campaign to raise awareness of dementia, its symptoms and the importance of getting an early diagnosis. Called Worried About Your Memory?, the campaign will prompt and help people to consider if their forgetfulness, or that of a friend or ...
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