Dementia Stories
- Recent research suggests a new lab test can help to diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease quickly and easily.
- When life gets you down, stay positive. It might just help prevent the development of dementia as you reach your elderly years.
- Weight gain is not the only risk of long, uninterrupted hours of sitting. Here are the other ways it can take a toll on your physical and mental health.
- Think 2 minutes of walking can't make a difference? Think again because updated guidelines reveal how even the smallest steps count toward your health.
- Regardless of whether or not they had dementia, older adults were found to have better cognition skills during the late summer and early fall in a new study by Canadian researchers.
- Both excessive drinking and abstinence were linked to a higher dementia risk in a long-term study that followed more than 9,000 British civil servants.
- In a study of nearly 1,300 older adults, those with higher systolic pressure were more likely to have changes in their brain associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- A new study from Hong Kong highlighted reading as one of the intellectual activities linked to a significantly reduced risk of developing dementia.
- Ongoing sexual activity and the experience of emotional closeness with a partner may not have an impact on cognitive decline among older adults.
- Modifiable risk factors can be addressed through the means of early intervention to reduce chances of developing dementia during old age.
- Regarded as an "invisible epidemic," loneliness is underestimated in how many people it affects in addition to the impact it has on physical and mental health.
- Alzheimer's disease among Americans is on the rise, costing us in more ways than one, according to a new report.