With more people dying from Alzheimer’s disease than ever before, experts are emphasizing the importance of early diagnosis and intervention. The number of fatalities due to the disease increased by 141% between 2000 and 2021, according to the 2024 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts
Former Newcastle and Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear has died at the age of 77 after a battle with dementia. A statement from his family confirmed the tragic news on Sunday evening. The family’s statement read: “We are sad to announce that Joe
A new, easy blood test might help doctors find Alzheimer’s disease much earlier. Experts say this could change the way we spot Alzheimer’s in the UK. The blood tests could be e ready for use in the NHS in about five years.
A revolutionary jab, which is designed to remove toxic proteins from the brain before they cause the damage leading to the most common form of dementia, is undergoing trials on patients in the early stages of the disease. Once through clinical trials
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An incapacitated pensioner with severe dementia was prosecuted by the DVLA just one day after they were moved to a care home. The unnamed pensioner, 83, stopped driving two years ago but kept a classic car, a red 1975 MG, which he
A study of frozen blood samples has turned up a trove of proteins that may predict several forms of dementia more than 10 years before the disease is diagnosed, researchers from the U.K. and China reported on Monday. The study, published in
There’s nothing like a nostalgic song to transport you back to a special time and place — and now a new study has shown that music could help protect those memories for a lifetime. Researchers at the University of Exeter discovered that
Researchers from the National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan used data to study the association and inform evidence-based clinical advice in the future. Chia-Shu Lin, lead author of the study and a professor in dentistry, said to Newsweek: “Most systematic reviews
Rachael Fothergill, 29, battled for more than three years to secure NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) funding to support the care of her grandfather, who suffered from Parkinson’s dementia. The clinical research practitioner from Lincolnshire, aged 29, was finally awarded an £18,000 payment