The UK will aim to double its annual funding for dementia research to £132m by 2025, up from the 2015 target of £66m, David Cameron has said. The prime minister’s announcement comes before a dementia summit which is part of Britain’s presidency of the G8. [Read more...]
UK aims to double dementia funding
December 11, 2013 by
Exercise ‘is good dementia therapy’
December 4, 2013 by
People with dementia who exercise improve their thinking abilities and everyday life, a body of medical research concludes. The Cochrane Collaboration carried out a systematic review of eight exercise trials involving more than 300 patients living at home or in care. Exercise did little for patients’ moods, the research concluded. But it did help them carry out daily activities such as rising from a chair, and boosted their cognitive skills. [Read more...]
Great-grandmother with dementia is taken to a stranger’s house and tucked up in his bed after hospital staff took her to the WRONG address
October 10, 2013 by
A great-grandmother with dementia was taken to a stranger’s house, tucked up in his bed and left for seven hours by bungling hospital staff. Lilian Taylor, 88, was driven by mistake to her previous home in just her nightdress after being discharged from Homerton Hospital in Hackney, east London. [Read more...]
Stress in middle-aged women could increase risk of dementia
October 1, 2013 by
Stressful life events such as divorce, bereavement or job losses have been linked to the development of dementia in middle aged women, according to the results of a new study. Common stressful life events may have “severe and long standing physiological and psychological consequences” in the brain, researchers said. [Read more...]
How drug used to treat diabetes could cut risk of developing dementia by a fifth
July 16, 2013 by
A drug used to treat diabetes could cut the risk of developing dementia by 20 per cent, a study has found. Almost 15,000 people aged over 55 diagnosed with the type 2 form of the disease were given the drug metformin over five years. [Read more...]
How Music Helps Dementia Sufferers
March 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Humans are innately musical creatures. Our first sensory system to come alive is our hearing, engaging at just 16 weeks after conception. Throughout pregnancy parents are encouraged to talk to their unborn child [Read more...]
Dementia ‘affects 80% of care home residents’
February 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
More than 320,000 of the 400,000 people living in care homes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland now have dementia or severe memory problems, the Alzheimer’s Society charity estimates. It said the figure was almost 30% higher than previous estimates because of the rise in the ageing population and improvements in data collection. [Read more...]
