This year’s Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine will have important implications for future research into Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Announced on October 6th, the prize was awarded jointly to Professor John O’Keefe from the UK and Norwegian husband and wife team, May-Britt and Edvard Moser “for their discoveries of cells that(…)
The number of people in the UK diagnosed with some form of dementia is rising steadily, and the social care system as it stands today is simply not equipped to cope says Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive of the Alzheimer’s Society. Writing in The Guardian, he warns that services to support and care for the elderly are on(…)
The dementia charities have long been campaigning against the financial burden placed on families in having to pay for care of loved ones with dementia. Shocking new figures from the London School of Economics and Kings College London on behalf of The Alzheimer’s Society now reveal the true scale of the problem. BBC News Health(…)
The fact that is so often overlooked, is that dementia can have a devastating effect not only on the health of the person with the disease, but also the family members having to provide round the clock care. Seeing a cherished partner, parent or friend slowly lose their independence and become gradually more baffled, anxious,(…)
New clinical trial results from the US, reported at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference® in July, suggest that cataract surgery for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias not only improves vision but can also slow down decline in cognition. The clinical trials, currently being undertaken in Cleveland, Ohio, were set up to determine the(…)
The Alzheimer’s Society reported in 2013 that 1 in 4 individuals coping with dementia had made use of complimentary or alternative therapies in the previous year. With the possible side effects of conventional medications well documented, and individuals wanting to find any effective method to deal with the results of their dementia, it is easy(…)
Terry Pratchett – OBE, best selling author, campaigner and fund raiser- has been tireless in his quest to raise awareness about dementia since his diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease back in December 2007. Suffering from a rare form of the disease, posterior cortical atrophy, which affects his motor skills in particular, he has never stopped(…)
A blood test that can predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment, much earlier than current methods, has been developed by British scientists. An international collaboration led by scientists from King’s College, London and Proteome Sciences, a UK biotechnology company, hope that the test could provide a breakthrough in the(…)
It seems that every week there some new study or other that concludes we should do this or that to combat dementia & Alzheimer’s disease. We’re a pretty skeptical lot here at CCFA towers, but doing more exercise is definitely good for us regardless so we thought we bring you this report originally published in the(…)