South West care charity Milestones Trust offers tips for talking to people with dementia A South West care home charity is calling on people to…
Read more...A new study from researchers in the US suggests that older people whose hearts pump less blood have reduced blood flow in areas of the…
Read more...Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, has welcomed a government plan to speed up the way new treatments are introduced on the…
Read more...The number of applications to detain people with mental health issues, dementia or learning difficulties for their own safety has reached the highest level on record. The…
Read more...The full results from the European LipiDiDiet clinical trial has been published online in The Lancet Neurology today. The trial tested whether a daily medical…
Read more...Scientists in China collaborating with the University of British Columbia, have found for the first time that amyloid present in a brain can trigger features…
Read more...A last desperate plea for additional funds to tackle the growing crisis in health and care services ahead of next month’s Budget is being made…
Read more...A CARE home resident with dementia has helped raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society by taking part in a three-mile memory walk. Audrey Bracewell, who…
Read more...New research by Which? has found that almost half of people (48%) who had arranged care for themselves or a loved one said there weren’t any places…
Read more...Researchers in the US have found that a protein called Lysine specific histone demethylase (LSD1) could protect against neurodegeneration in mice, and suggest that its…
Read more...Strictly Come Dancing star Ruth Langsford took a break from the dancefloor to join 3,000 people who united against dementia at an Alzheimer’s Society Memory…
Read more...Researchers in New Mexico and Croatia have tested a non-invasive brain scanning technique known as magnetoencephalography, or MEG, as an early biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease. The results…
Read more...Lyca Group has pledged to donate £100,000 to Alzheimer’s Research UK to kick-off a year-long charity partnership and to raise awareness of dementia among black,…
Read more...A new research report calls for a change in approach in the treatment of psychosis in dementia, to find alternatives to highly damaging antipsychotics. Up…
Read more...Pharmaceutical company Axovant Sciences has today announced that their drug RVT-101 (also known as intepirdine) has failed to produce a benefit to people living with…
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